La Liga champions FC Barcelona will not be taking sides in the forthcoming elections for the Catalan Regional Assembly on September 27 in which voters will decide between pro-independence groups or those in favour of the region remaining part of Spain.
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LFP President Javier Tebas has hinted that Barcelona and Espanyol would not be allowed to participate in La Liga if Catalonian independence was granted.
Barcelona would be kicked out of La Liga if Catalunya becomes independent, league chiefs have confirmed. “There are more important things than football”. The competitive nature of league fixtures involving those two clubs would be likely to suffer in a Liga Catalunya.
“If Spain is broken up, La Liga breaks too”. Other clubs in the region such as Sabadell and Gimnastic have had brief periods in Spain’s top flight but are now plying their trade in Spain’s lower leagues or in regional football. “I hope it never gets to such absurdity”. However, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu played down the consequences and said that he only speaks to Cardenal on sporting matters. We have always spoken about sport.
“Barcelona has demonstrated it is outside of the electoral campaign”.
As quoted by ESPN, he told Canal Plus, “We are not discussing the campaign, we are on the outside and we have shown this above and beyond all”.
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Barcelona travel to face Celta Vigo, who are now third in the table with three wins and a draw from their opening four matches and whose attacking trio of former Barca-B team player, Nolito, Iago Aspas and Fabian Orellana are in excellent form, although Nolito, who has been touted as a possible winter signing for Barca said on Monday it was “a joke” to compare them with Barca’s trio of Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez.
