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| Real Madrid during pre-season 2011-2012 |
EUROPE (& AFRICA)
On July 15, Real Madrid will kick off the 2012-13 season. Jose Mourinho has summoned his workforce in Valdebebas Sports City that day, at least to those players who do not play the Eurocup 2012. The white players will pass the medical examination to face almost two weeks of hard work and trainings.
In this first stage of the pre-season, whites will visit Morocco. Will be on July 24 and Real Madrid will play a friendly match at the new Grand Stadium of Tangiers against Moghreb Athletic Tetouan (MAT), which has just been proclaimed, for the first time ever, champions of the Moroccan First division football.
Then, the second pre-season game would be against Benfica on July 27, attending the Eusebio Cup. The team will travel to Lisbon to visit the country of the coach Jose Mourinho and some of the players in the squad as Cristiano Ronaldo. It will be a short travel that will not disturb the training pace reached at Valdebebas Sports City in Madrid.
UNITES STATES OF AMERICA
After the two friendlies in Morocco and Portugal, Real Madrid will go back to Los Angeles to begin the U.S.A. Tour. There white team will play its third friendly on August 2 against Los Angeles Galaxy. The game against the Galaxy, which is framed in the World Challenge tournament (with Chelsea, Liverpool, Milan, PSG, Toronto and Seattle Sounders), will be the fourth match between the Galaxy and Real Madrid. The first was just at the Home Depot Center in 2005 (Beckham was active in the Real Madrid), and ended with a 2-0, Madrid victory . After, at the Rose Bowl in 2010, Mourinho's team won 3-2, in his first summer as a coach. Last year, at Memorial Coliseum, Real Madrid won again (4-1).
Real Madrid and Juventus will play on August 5 in Las Vegas one of the most attractive friendly matches of next summer. Both clubs have achieved the league in Spain and Italy. The match between whites and 'bianconeri' will be played aat the Sam Boyd Stadium, a football field with a capacity of nearly 40,000 spectators.
Finally, Real Madrid will face Milan on August 8, at New York. The two teams which have won more European Cups would play in the modern Yankee Stadium (not confirmed), built in 2009 and home of the New York Yankees. Turned into a football field it has capacity for 54,200 spectators. This will be the third summer friendly match that Real Madrid would play in its U.S.A. tour.
The MLS (Major League Soccer) has also announced a friendly against Celtic on August 11 in Philadelphia, but from the white club has not yet been confirmed. Apparently the Scottish team has scheduling problems and is looking for a solution.
After returning to Europe is possible that Real Madrid does not go out from Spain to play another friendly match. The Spanish league begins on August 19 and before the white team has to play the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona (22 and 29 August). So Real Madrid will try to play the Bernabeu Trophy 2012 just returned from the U.S.A. tour.
SCHEDULE
- 07/24- Athletic Tetouan - Real Madrid (Tangiers, Morocco)
- 07/27- Benfica - Real Madrid (Lisbon, Portugal)
- 08/02- Los Angeles Galaxy - Real Madrid (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
- 08/05- Juventus - Real Madrid (Las Vegas, U.S.A.)
- 08/08- Milan - Real Madrid (New York, U.S.A.)
- 08/11- Celtic - Real Madrid (Philladelphia, U.S.A) -Not Confirmed-
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