FIFA could suspend Spain from competing in international football

  01 October 2017    Read: 1400
FIFA could suspend Spain from competing in international football
Tensions around Catalonia's upcoming independence referendum have spilled onto the soccer pitch in Spain after a warning from the country's national football league that one of its crown jewels, FC Barcelona, would be expelled if the region seceded.
Catalonia is home to the world's second most-valuable club, with five-times European champions Barca a mainstay of Spain's La Liga whose boss, Javier Tebas, has said the club would not be allowed to remain in the league in the event of secession, The Sun writes.

FIFA could be asked to determine if Spain has breached rule against government interference in football if Barca are booted from La Liga and would have the power to suspend Spain, the 2010 World Cup winners, from competing in international soccer, less than a year before the 2018 tournament in Russia.

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