MADRID Cheap Melvin Ingram Jersey , Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish Football League (LFP) has announced that the number of people attending football games in the first and second divisions (Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante) has risen by 3.03 percent this season.
After last weekend' s matches in Spain, the LFP announced that a total of 7,615,374 people have passed through the turnstiles of Spain' s 2' Primera Liga and 22 Liga Adelante Clubs.
That is 223,681 more than at the same stage last season when a total of 7 Cheap Joey Bosa Jersey ,391,693 fans had gone to watch matches in person, but slightly below the figure of the 2011-12 season when 7,642,588 supporters had taken seats in their respective grounds.
However Wholesale Los Angeles Chargers Hats , the news may be slightly misleading, given that attendances have actually fallen in the BBVA Primera Liga, where there has been a fall of 0.47 percent in the number of spectators.
That means it is the Liga Adelante which has seen the increased number of fans. This can in part be put down to the fact that this season saw important clubs such as Tenerife and Deportivo Alaves return to the second division from the third tier, while the relegation of Deportivo la Coruna and Zaragoza down from the Primera Liga also means the fanbase in the second tier is bigger than a season ago.
Supporters in Spain are unhappy about the fact that television means that games can be played across a range of times from 20:30 on a Friday night to 22:00 hours on a Monday night.
The Monday kick-off is especially unpopular with fans as it means they don' t leave the ground until midnight with the prospect of having to work early the following morning and at a time where the metro in some cities is on the point of closing for the night.
The problem of attendances at 22:00 kick offs was made clear in the last two rounds of the Copa del Rey when FC Barcelona attracted 24,000 and 38 Wholesale Los Angeles Chargers Hoodies ,000 fans for their quarter and semi-final home matches, playing the two games in an unusually sterile atmosphere.
Meanwhile Madrid based club Getafe habitually play in front of crowds of around 4,000 fans or less.
TAIYUAN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- A seminar on relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan opened Monday, stressing the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.
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Dai said that the Chinese side had always opposed any official and military exchanges between the United States and Taiwan, urging the United States to clearly understand the serious harmfulness of such provisions and abide by the China-U.S. three joint communiques.
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He called for further improvements in cross-Strait economic cooperation to consolidate common interests and enlarge communication between the two sides to deepen social integration.
Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said that unceasing kinship and strong will for exchange and cooperation across the Strait was an inexhaustible driving force for the development of cross-Strait relations.
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