Following the primary cancellation, CONMEBOL revealed that a frantic search for a replacement venue took place. While Argentina were willing to move the game to Europe, a disagreement over the specific scheduling meant that no common ground could be found between the two continental federations.<\/p>\n
A CONMEBOL press release detailed the breakdown: “In this situation, on Saturday, March 14, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) received a proposal to hold the match at a neutral venue, Italy, on March 27. Argentina accepted the idea without objection, except for the date, suggesting March 31. Unfortunately, UEFA announced that holding the match on the 31st — just four days later than the original proposal — was not possible, and the Finalissima was cancelled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the primary cancellation, CONMEBOL revealed that a frantic search for a replacement venue took place. While Argentina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[10105,2000,299,105677,138589,104],"class_list":["post-828602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-argentina","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-finalissima","tag-l-messi","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116236348706321536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}