Facebook buys rights to show La Liga games in India
by Sean Farrell and Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3WS4D)
Company signs exclusive three-year agreement to screen all 380 Spanish top-flight football matches across south Asia
Facebook has bought the rights to show Spanish top-flight football in the Indian subcontinent in the latest move by a US technology company into sports rights.
The company has signed an exclusive agreement to show La Liga games featuring Barcelona's Lionel Messi and other stars for the next three years. The deal will allow Facebook to show all 380 matches for the new season, which starts on Friday, to users in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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