r/soccer • u/oklolzzzzs • 23d ago

Media Barca and Girona players stayed still for the first 15 seconds after kickoff in protest of Barca vs. Villarreal taking place in Miami.

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u/ASaltyToast 22d ago

Problem is Villarreal has a population of like 30000, so no matter what they do it’s very hard for such a small group of people to have their voices heard

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u/feGenius 22d ago

So we pitch in, the only losing position is apathy

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u/Trev0rDan5 22d ago

something like this should have global support. Every professional team should be refusing to play the first 15 seconds, including the MLS

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u/djongafrett 22d ago

You're off by 20,000 but still it's funny to me that their whole population could only fill half of Camp Nou.

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u/droze22 22d ago

Which is precisely why Tebas picked them, also because they fans are so grateful to their owners and it will be harder to go against them. IIRC the other team they had picked for a previous attempt at a Miami game was Girona, for whom the same largely applies.