Rising numbers

Last Monday Laliga has announced financial numbers from the 2022-23 season.

The previous football year they had a 5,69 billion euros revenue which is a rise of 17,8 per cent from the 2021-22 campaign. Commercial earnings are also raised for 28,6 per cent, 36,9 per cent more is the income from matches, while for the first time in the history of Spanish football have surpassed the number of 15 million spectators of just one season.

Revenues from transfers are on the rise as well of 679 million euros compared to 402 million from last year, whilst another record is broken on the infrastructure figure as it was invested 848 million euros.

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Duel did not even start due to rare incident

Match from the second most significance club tournament on the African continent was completely suspended just seconds before kick-off, and its cause is a rather unusual one nowadays.

Usually spectators are at fault for postponing a game, but this time it was something different. The Confederation Cup semi-final with the first 90 minutes between Union sportive de la Medina d'Alger and Renaissance sportive de Berkane that was scheduled for 21 April had been abandoned because of political incident. Yesterday the confederation has awarded the win to the visitors, second leg is yet to come on 28 of this month and for now everything suggest that it will still be staged...

This very unusual event have started last Friday morning when the Algerian custom officials on the airport have seized the jerseys of the guests where on it a map was drawn including the disputed Western Sahara provinces. Simply, all this was named as "the full map of Morocco", so Algeria officials have accused its neighbours of politicizing sports by giving support of the separatists who is trying to get independence in the referred desert. Renaissance sportive de Berkane was asked to change its jerseys for the mentioned game for which they refused, while during the whole competition the club was wearing the same shirts since its beginning without any problems occurred.

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Will not play until the end of season because of stubbornness

On 14 April Bayer have played a Bundesliga game with Werder. The second he learned that would start the match from the bench, and not on the field, the trouble began the next day (from the very angry bosses).

Visiting midfielder Naby Keita has refused to travel with the club to Leverkusen, and for this stupidity he was properly punished. The 29-year-old had to give away "significant sum" as fine although the club has not revealed the real number of how much. And to be far more worse for him the Guinean player is completely removed until the rest of the season, will not train or be part along with the first team nor can be present in the dressing room.

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Known some information about fourth season

On 19 April the North, Central American and Caribbean confederation has revealed some details of its youngest tournament: edition number four of the Nations league tournament.

This event is going to be divided on two parts: the league part (scheduled for September, October, November) together with the finals (who have to be played at March 2025). As quarter-finals are introduced for the first time this season (for league A only), one other novelty comes for the next as well. To avoid all that travelling back-and-forth a fantastic idea was given: for the league part (on B and C only) all teams will be situated on one place, so that tiredness will disappear and best football would be played.

For the 3 leagues teams in the little bowls was determined, and for that, big help was the current 2023-24 season. In league A six teams will form two groups, four groups and for teams are going to play in league B, and for C there would be three teams and three groups. Each of the 41 of them will come from:

League A

Pot 1: Jamaica, Costa Rica.

Pot 2: Honduras, Guatemala.

Pot 3: Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique.

Pot 4: Cuba, Guadeloupe.

Pot 5: Nicaragua, Suriname.

Pot 6: Guyana, French Guiana.

- Mexico, United states of America, Panama and Canada are direct participants starting from the quarter final phase.

League B

Pot 1: Haiti, El Salvador, Curacao, Dominican Republic.

Pot 2: Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Montserrat, Saint Lucia.

Pot 3: Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba.

Pot 4: Dominica, Bonaire, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten.

League C

Pot 1: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Belize, Barbados.

Pot 2: Bahamas, Cayman islands, Turks and Caicos islands.

Pot 3: British Virgin islands, United states Virgin islands, Anguilla.

The official draw for the 2024-25 edition is going to take place on 06 May. Also, this competition will serve for the main championship of the region - the Gold Cup 2025.

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Unusual purchase that happened on stands

Once they were competing with the best clubs in LaLiga, but nowadays are located at Primera federacion (which is equivalent to third tier of the football league system in Spain).

For 17 seasons Malaga have enjoyed top football, while now currently they play at the professional and semi-professional league(s). Because everyone was talking about it in the town, the main story has evolved around its midfielder Daniel Lorenzo who was involved in a rather comical situation. After the match with Atletico Madrid B the 21-year-old player was caught on camera of how from the fan is taking 50 euros in exchange for his shirt.

Last Monday at a television show in connection of this news he explained that "the club charges us for the jerseys, and it seemed natural to keep the money they offered me. I should not have done it, and I hope people understand. I am not a millionaire, but I would like to be".

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