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Major League Soccer is breaking away from soccer’s tradition of having each team play every opponent in its league.MLS is expanding to 26 teams in 2020 with the additions of Miami and Nashville but will keep a 34-game regular-season schedule. A team will play each of its 12 conference opponents home and away Cheap Inter Milan Soccer Shirts , and will face only 10 of the 13 teams in the other conference.Nashville opens Feb. 29 at home against Atlanta and David Beckham’s Inter Miami starts March 1 at Los Angeles, the league said Thursday in announcing all home openers. Defending champion Seattle opens March 1 against Chicago.Other Feb. 29 openers are Colorado at D.C., New England at Montreal, LA Galaxy at Houston, Toronto at San Jose, Philadelphia at Dallas Cheap Juventus Soccer Jerseys , Salt Lake at Orlando and Kansas City at Vancouver. Games the following day include New York City at Columbus, Cincinnati at New York Red Bulls and Minnesota at Portland.Home openers on March 7 are Chicago at New England, Red Bulls at Salt Lake, NYC at Toronto, Cincinnati at Atlanta, Houston at Kansas City Cheap Soccer Uniforms , Orlando at Colorado and Vancouver at LA Galaxy. Four more home openers are set for March 14: Dallas at NYC, LA Galaxy at Miami, D.C. at Cincinnati and San Jose at Philadelphia.The final home openers are Red Bulls at Minnesota on March 15 and Atlanta at Chicago on March 21 as the Fire return downtown to Soldier Field, their home from 1997-2005. The played in suburban Bridgeview from 2006 through last season. MADRID (AP) — In the latest twist of a never-ending power struggle, the Spanish league said Wednesday it will consider legal action against the Spanish soccer federation’s decision to play the “clásico” match between Barcelona and Real Madrid on a weekday in December.The league released a statement shortly after the federation confirmed Dec. 18, a Wednesday Cheap Liverpool Soccer Jerseys , as the new date. The match was initially scheduled for Saturday but was postponed because of a planned separatist rally in the riot-stricken Catalan capital.The new date was proposed by the clubs, but the league wanted the match to be played on Dec. 7, a Saturday, because it would better suit television rights holders. In addition, Copa del Rey matches are scheduled for Dec. 18, and the Club World Cup will already be underway in Qatar.The “clásicos” are the biggest games of the year in Spain and are among the most watched matches in the world. The league usually promotes one of them to the Asian market and the other to the American market.Saturday’s match would have been played at 1 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) Cheap Manchester City Soccer Shirts , a timeslot that favors Asian audiences. If played in the middle of the week, the game will most likely have to start at night, possibly creating problems for the league to abide to its contracts with the rights holders.The dispute over the “clásico” adds strain to the relationship between the league and the Spanish federation. League president Javier Tebas and federation head Luis Rubiales — two outspoken figures in Spanish soccer — have been at odds over a series of issues recently. One of them is the league’s attempt to play a regular-season match in the United States, something the federation has yet to approve.The Spanish league runs the top two soccer divisions in the country, while the federation controls regulations and matches for professional and amateur games.The league said it is studying what actions it can take to keep the “clásico” from being played on Dec. 18. It said it will make a decision after gaining access to the reports and documents the federation used to make the change.The league initially wanted the match to be moved from Barcelona to Madrid, with the return match automatically switched from the Spanish capital to Barcelona. But the federation’s competitions committee rejected that idea Cheap Manchester United Soccer Jerseys , saying it was against its rules to invert the order of games.The federation had asked the clubs to propose a new date after it was agreed that it wasn’t safe to play on Saturday as scheduled.The northeastern Catalonia region has been rocked by violent protests since the Supreme Court ruled to sentence nine separatist leaders to prison.Catalan independence flags are a regular feature at Barcelona’s home games, as are collective shouts for “independence” by separatist supporters.