MADRID, Aug 30 — Barcelona’s match against Sevilla next month is one of two games that have been postponed by La Liga in Spain after it lost an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the release of players for upcoming South American World Cup qualifiers.
La Liga had contested Fifa’s insistence that players be released for duty with their countries, with South American national teams each playing three World Cup qualifiers in eight days between September 2 and 9. “It is obvious that they would not be in a condition to compete properly for their clubs,” La Liga said in a statement, adding that it went to the CAS to “defend the integrity of the competition and the rights of the clubs affected.”
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