MADRID: Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said Tuesday the plan to take Barcelona’s La Liga match against Villarreal to Miami is “adulterating” the competition.

For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport

La Liga announced they were moving the game to the United States in December, which will be the first European League fixture to be held abroad.

“It’s totally adulterating the competition,” Courtois told a news conference.

“It’s easy to talk about the NFL and the NBA (which move locations), they have 82 games and it doesn’t change anything for them, and in the NFL it’s voted for by the owners of the teams...