Serie A planning U.S. tournament during World Cup

Italy’s Serie A wishes to organise a match in the United States in the course of this year’s World Cup, applying players not referred to as up by their countrywide sides, as it seeks to enhance its intercontinental profile, main government Luigi De Siervo mentioned.

Qatar will host the Globe Cup from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18, forcing main European leagues this kind of as Serie A to choose an unconventional, prolonged crack through their domestic season.

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“We want to preserve our players healthy even though advertising ourselves in a market which we contemplate strategic,” De Siervo instructed Reuters.

All the 20 golf equipment in Serie A would take part with gamers not concerned with their national teams in Qatar.

“Fixtures would be scheduled to avoid any overlap with the World Cup calendar,” De Siervo added, referring to the kick-off times, adding that discussions had been even now at the early phases but prospective media companions had been sounded out.

The North American industry has grow to be progressively vital for Serie A with Italy’s oldest soccer crew Genoa past year starting to be the sixth prime-league aspect less than U.S. possession, joining AC Milan, Fiorentina, AS Roma, Spezia and Venezia, though Canadian Joey Saputo operates Bologna.

The event would get started in Orlando a 7 days after the begin of the Earth Cup and would contain team levels adopted by knockout matches from the quarterfinals.

With some 85 Italy-based mostly gamers likely to be concerned in the World Cup, Serie A would have some 570 some others offered to sign up for the U.S. tournament, Serie A head of competitions Andrea Butti claimed.

To beef up teams whose ranks had been decreased by countrywide crew call-ups, the Italian league is checking out methods to get authorisations for non permanent mortgage agreements for gamers from other national competitions.

A last final decision on the undertaking, which would need to get acceptance from UEFA and other continental soccer bodies, could be taken within two months, Butti said.

Serie A is striving to capture up with other major European leagues these kinds of as the English Premier League and Spain’s LaLiga, whose level of popularity abroad has surged in current many years, boosting their profits.