Sources: Madrid ask LaLiga to delay opener

Real Madrid person asked LaLiga for their league opener against Osasuna to beryllium rescheduled due to the fact that of their engagement successful the FIFA Club World Cup, sources person told ESPN.

Madrid are owed to look Osasuna astatine the Santiago Bernabéu connected Aug. 19.

Xabi Alonso's broadside instrumentality connected Paris Saint-Germain successful Wednesday's Club World Cup semifinal successful New Jersey.

It means Madrid volition not person the minimum of six weeks -- 3 weeks remainder and a minimum 3 weeks of preseason grooming -- betwixt tournaments that the Spanish Players' Union (AFE) had agreed with LaLiga arsenic good arsenic with Atlético Madrid and Madrid, the 2 Spanish clubs competing successful the Club World Cup.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has been a vocal professional of the expanded Club World Cup, claiming that it should beryllium eliminated arsenic it affects "the full ecosystem of nationalist leagues, particularly successful Europe."

The players' national informed ESPN that it nonstop a missive connected Monday to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), to LaLiga, to Real Madrid and to Osasuna to punctual them of the value of the remainder and a due preseason with regards to subordinate health.