Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid the latest USA fixture to be SCRAPPED - but is it only a matter of time?

Barcelona's La Liga clash with Atletico Madrid has been rescheduled on Spanish soil once more after a failed attempt to host the match in the US.

The Spanish Football League announced the game will return to the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc in Barcelona Saturday, December 21 for an 8pm Kick off (UK time). The Blaugrana are playing their home matches at the stadium for the time being as renovations to the famous Camp Nou are completed. La Liga president Javier Tebas remains forever optimistic that a Spanish top flight fixture will soon be held on international soil, with the financial incentives the major factor.

The fixture is the latest attempt to play a La Liga match in the USA to fail. Plans to play Barcelona's clash with Girona and a game between Atletico and Villarreal in 2019 also fell through, largely due to the amount of hurdles that needed to be overcome.

Record Sport looks at why this move seems to appeal so much to some of football's higher ups.

Miami was abruptly earmarked as the venue for the match just last month. The 'home' fixture for Barcelona would take place on December 22 at the Hard Rock Stadium. This is not where Lionel Messi's Inter Miami play. They host matches at the Chase Stadium. The move is an attempt to boost La Liga's financial coffers.

Back in 2018, the president anticipated that a single game held in the US would generate upwards of €200m. Revenue would be generated from matchday ticket sales at a NFL-sized stadium, a flurry of sponsorship deals and a media rights agreement that could be extremely lucrative for the league. Barca took on Real Madrid in a friendly in front of 82,500 fans in the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey last summer, for example.

Tebas for the better part of six years