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LaLiga matches to pause for tribute as Spanish football remembers Jesús de Miguel
LaLiga games will go ahead with a ninth-minute tribute, while four fixtures across LALIGA HYPERMOTION and Liga F Moeve have been postponed.
Spanish football will pay tribute to Jesús de Miguel through a programme of remembrance and fixture postponements, with LaLiga matches going ahead under arrangements that include a pause linked to the player's number nine shirt.
The plans put a shared act of remembrance at the centre of proceedings. A report carried by Yahoo Sports details a tribute involving starting players and match officials, followed by an interruption during the game. Separately, LALIGA's official announcement confirms that three LALIGA HYPERMOTION fixtures and one Liga F Moeve match have been postponed.
A pause in recognition of number nine
The in-match tribute will take place at the first stoppage from the ninth minute onward, according to the report. The referee will pause play and a video remembering the player will be shown on the stadium screens.
That distinction matters for those following the matches: the arrangement is not for play to be halted automatically as the clock reaches nine minutes. Instead, the first subsequent break in play will provide the moment for the tribute, with the timing chosen in recognition of his shirt number.
The reported pre-match ceremony also brings the opposing teams together. Rather than entering as two separate groups, the starting players will walk onto the pitch intermingled, wearing special shirts displaying the number nine and a message of remembrance.
Alongside the match officials, they will stand with their arms around one another in a semicircle at the place on the pitch identified in the report as the location of Monday's incident. A floral tribute will also be laid in his memory.
Those details describe a ceremony built around players and officials participating together, before the scheduled football proceeds. The video tribute then provides a further moment of remembrance once the match is under way.
Four fixtures postponed
LALIGA's official statement identifies the three LALIGA HYPERMOTION games that will not go ahead as scheduled:
- CD Castellón v SD Eibar
- Granada CF v CD Tenerife
- FC Andorra v RCD Mallorca
The same announcement says Liga F Moeve will postpone Costa Adeje Tenerife's match against Deportivo Alavés, extending the changes beyond the fixtures listed in LALIGA HYPERMOTION.
No replacement dates are included in the supplied announcement. For supporters of the clubs concerned, the confirmed information is therefore the postponement of those named games, rather than a revised timetable for their return to the calendar.
Remembrance across Spanish football
The arrangements combine matches continuing with a formal tribute and specific fixtures being deferred. They should not be read as a blanket suspension: the report on LaLiga says games will proceed, while the official announcement sets out the individual postponements.
Together, the ceremonial plans and schedule changes place remembrance at the forefront of Spanish football's response. The number nine will be the central reference during the matches going ahead, linking the players' tribute shirts with the pause in play.
