By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish football could finally cross the Atlantic after the Royal Spanish Football Federation approved a request for Barcelona and Villarreal to play their December LaLiga match in Miami – a move nearly a decade in the making.

The Spanish football federation has given its approval to a request from LaLiga clubs Barcelona and Villarreal to play a league match in Miami this season.

In a key development, Mundo Deportivo states the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has approved the proposal to forward the request to UEFA for Villarreal vs