By Miguel Rapetti
25 Sep 2023, 00:56 AM EDT
The NFL continues with its intentions to continue expanding to other territories in the world in order to give greater visibility to its league and this Sunday executive vice president Peter O’Reilly confirmed that in the future they hope to host games in Brazil and Spain.
According to O’Reilly’s statements to the sports network ESPN, they always take into consideration the countries where the increase in NFL fans continues to constantly grow and that is why they have set their sights on Brazil and Spain, considering that both nations are attractive to the market. local.
“Spain and Brazil are two strong markets and most importantly, they are markets that interest the teams. It is important to join the places where teams are building their fan base,” the official said.
Even the market research that the NFL has undertaken in Brazil and Spain already has some favorite cities for a future meeting and there would even be stadiums seen.
Some of the cities and venues would be the capital of Spain, Madrid, in the Real Madrid stadium, Santiago Bernabéu, and in the Atlético de Madrid field, the Cívitas Metropolitano, while in Brazil there has been talk of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, although without any confirmed venue.
“There is a lot of interest in the NFL, we already saw it. We had a Super Bowl viewing party last year in Brazil and it was packed; “There was a lot of energy there,” he said.
This year, the NFL will play five regular-season games in Europe; three in London and two in Frankfurt.
The first will be the duel between Falcons and Jaguars next Sunday in week 4 at Wembley Stadium; In week 5 on October 8, the Jaguars will face the Bills at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the same venue that will host the Ravens-Titans in week 6 on October 15.
The two matches in Frankfurt will take place at Deutsche Bank Park. Dolphins and the champion Chiefs will meet on November 5 in week 9 and Colts-Patriots will do so on the 12th, in week 10.
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