{"id":440005,"date":"2023-07-17T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440005"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:00:06","slug":"mls-commissioner-not-endangered-by-saudi-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mls-commissioner-not-endangered-by-saudi-league\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS commissioner not endangered by Saudi league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLS commissioner Don Garber claimed that Saudi Pro League&#8217;s spending wouldn\u2019t expose the USA League\u2019s growth into new markets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MLS commissioner Don Garber on the recent moves out of Saudi Arabia:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen it happen with China and I wasn\u2019t concerned any more than I\u2019m concerned about [Saudi Arabia]. It\u2019s quite the opposite.. [it\u2019s] an opportunity to think that it\u2019s not just about Europe.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLO9liEn9b\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PLO9liEn9b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS_Buzz\/status\/1680738020037722112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s not just about Europe, right? It&#8217;s about here. But that didn\u2019t concern me at all,&#8221; the commissioner told the media Sunday night during a ceremony to present Leo Messi as the newest player for Inter Miami CF.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen what happen in China, and I think that the same thing will happen in Saudi Arabia; it\u2019s quite the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, which many MLS teams tried to bring to the USA, chose to continue his career in Saudi Arabia with Al Nassr as other football stars followed after that. The most notable names are Golden Ball winner Karim Benzema and Roberto Firmino.<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the Saudi Pro League is to be among the top 10 football championships in the world by 2030 in terms of revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLS commissioner Don Garber claimed that Saudi Pro League&#8217;s spending wouldn\u2019t expose the USA League\u2019s growth into new markets. MLS commissioner Don Garber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440006,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17528,20459],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[20460,20461,714],"acf":{"announce":"Don Garber shared that the Saudi league does not threaten him.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440005"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440005"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}