BY: OSABUOHIEN IMUETINYANOSA
The National Football League (NFL) and the Spanish soccer giants announced on Friday that the Miami Dolphins will be in Spain at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium, to play one of their nine home games of the 2025 season.
Striving harder and higher has been the present case of the NFL into new markets after establishing an international toehold in Europe with regular games in London and Germany and expanding into Mexico and Brazil and they will now play a first-ever regular-season game in Spain at the iconic soccer stadium.
“The exciting first-ever game in Spain underscores the NFL’s continued commitment to expand its global footprint and reach new audiences around the world,” NFL’s senior vice-president Brett Gosper told a press conference in Madrid accompanied by Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and city mayor Jose Almeida on Friday.
“Bringing a historic franchise like the Dolphins to such a extraordinary and traditional ground like the Santiago Bernabeu stadium shows the global appeal of the NFL.”
Madrid is waken into a new phase as they become the fourth European city to host one after London, Munich and Frankfurt and Berlin will also be hosting a game for the first time in 2025. A total of 55 regular-season NFL games have been played internationally so far, with Madrid becoming the fourth European city to host one.
