FC Barcelona players (flickr image: m.caimary)
The La Liga season will start this weekend after the Spanish soccer league and the players’ union sealed a deal over unpaid wages on Thursday that ended the first strike action in almost three decades. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Spain.
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