By: EFE Updated 20 May 2022, 18: 50 pm EDT
The Liga MX will implement a timer from the Closing Tournament 2023, which will begin next January, to increase the effective playing time , reported this Monday the president of the championship, Mikel Arriola.
“This timer will speed up restarts. The spaces of opportunity in restart issues continue to be throw-ins and goal kicks, foul restarts, corner kicks and restarts in general regarding referee decisions “, he explained Arriola after the Assembly of Owners of the contest.
The hierarch pointed out that starting in July in the Apertura 2022, which will mark the start of the season 2022-2023, tests will be carried out to determine the maximum time ideal to carry out the restarts.
In the Opening 2022 will begin to use the stopwatch only to rush the players at goal kicks and kick-ins.
League figures indicate that the effective time in the championship is 51 minutes and 23 seconds per each game of 90 minute os.
THERE WILL BE A CHRONOMETER!
The president of Liga MX, Mikel Arriola, confirmed that Liga MX throw-ins will be timed with a stopwatch.
“Having a timer on the field to speed up restarts. There will be sanctions if it is not respected “pic.twitter.com/IqoffdfPWc
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Other agreements reached by the owners this Monday was that the League is interested in entering the market of the NFT (Non-Fungible Token or cryptographic token), to generate income from this digital asset.
The plan of the League is to start a process to meet the company that makes these tokens for the 18 first division teams.
Arriola presumed that Liga MX increased its value r one 18 percent when passing in 2020 of 2.115 million dollars to 2.329 in 2021, something that in his opinion has been sent by investment funds such as Apollo Global Management, which intends to give it a 1.115 million dollars to the championship for the 20 percent of your earnings from international broadcasting rights for the next 50 years.
“Today I will reply to the background (Apollo) that we want to know the detailed proposal. Now we do not have enough elements to send the details to the assembly and the teams”, Arriola sentenced.
Mikel Arriola commented that Grupo Caliente, owner of Querétaro, asked to extend the mandatory term to sell the team since having the limit until the end of 2022 has caused buyers’ offers to come in lower than expected.
Grupo Caliente took control of Querétaro after the violent events in the stadium in the picture last March, since the former board headed by Gabriel Solares was banned for five years.