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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez (L) and Atletico Madrid's CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin (R) give a press conference at the Spanish Football Federation (LFP) headquarters on November 6, 2009 in Madrid. The Spanish Football Federation warned it may call a strike to protest a government plan to end the so-called "Beckham law" under which foreign footballers receive tax breaks. The law, introduced in 2005 as a means to lure foreign executives to Spain, allows foreign players who earn more than 600,000 euros (885,000 dollars) a year to reduce their tax rate to 24 percent instead of the 43 percent applied to Spaniards in the same income bracket. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU (Photo credit should read PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images)