This piece may interest the Real Madrid fans especially in Australia & China. The Spanish Football Club will be travelling to these parts of the World pre-season. Below are some details & information:
Following the International & Summer break, the Real Madrid players will return to Madrid for their pre-season training on either July 10 or 11 before travelling in their Summer tour.
Australia: International Champions Cup | Schedule |
Sat, July 18: Roma vs Real Madrid | 11AM CEST | Stadium: Melbourne, VIC.
Fri, July 24: Real Madrid vs Manchester City | 12PM CEST | Stadium: Melbourne, VIC.
China: International Champions Cup | Schedule
Mon, July 27: Inter vs Real Madrid | 3AM CEST (Tuesday, July 28) | Stadium: Guangzhou.
Thu, July 30: Real Madrid vs Milan | 3AM CEST (Friday, July 31) | Stadium: Shanghai.
Madrid: The team will return to Madrid to continue their pre-season training before flying to Munich.
Munich: Audi Cup *
Tue, August 4: teams TBA | Games: two semi-finals
Wed, August 5: teams TBA | Games: Third place playoff and final
*The kick-offs on both days are at 6:15PM and 8:45PM CEST
Good news for Australian & Chinese Soccer & Real Madrid followers & fans.
Real Madrid will start the next season on July 10. After a few days in "Valdebebas - Madrid", the Spanish Football team will depart for Australia, country where they will play two matches within the "Guiness International Champions Cup" and in which Clubs like Inter Milan and Manchester City have already given their OK. Melbourne will be the centre of operations.
The next stage of the Real Madrid summer pre-season tour is China, country where two matches will be played, in addition to various promotional events and other related to the "Real Madrid Foundation"
The next "final" stage will be Munich - Germany, to close the pre-season tour with the dispute in an official tournament TBA.
The estimates made by Real Madrid Directives is that the Club will earn between 12 and 15 million euros during the mentioned pre-season summer 2015 tour.
Last match for Spain in this World Cup in Brazil with a 0 - 3 victory over Group B opponents Australia. Both teams leave eliminated from the competition with Spain at least finding today its "lost Football" & winning back some lost pride, while Australia is a young side that is building up experience with the Asian Cup - which they host - coming as their next big objective in the near future.
Spanish National Football Team Coach Vicente Del Bosque made some changes & gave Reina, Juanfran, Albiol, Koke, Cazorla, Torres & David Villa a run from the start. It was a "special" moment today for David Villa his last game with the National Team. Another player who has announced his exit from the National Team, Xavi Hernandez, sat it out on the bench with muscle problems.
Andres Iniesta who was the "Best man on the ground" played his 100th International for Spain & was the architect of his teams goals. Luckily Iniesta will continue but there are question marks over the future of other players like Casillas & Xabi Alonso. Although my intuition suggests both will continue giving service at least up to the European Championship in France 2016.
It took Spain at least 15 mins to find its rhythm as Australia pressured in the midfield but slowly Jordi Alba with Villa came alive with Iniesta the director of the orchestra. The first goal came in the 36th min when David Villa knocked in a Juanfran pass, the second came in the 69th min from Torres from an Iniesta pass & the third came in the 82nd min from Mata. Good match & at last goals for Spain, but all too late as they are to catch a plane back home tonight.
Lastly, special mention to David Villa as written above leaves the Spain Football Team as the "Highest Historical Goalscorer" with 59 goals & with 97 International Caps. Great service from a great Football player. Same goes out to Xavi Hernandez who leaves as well & leaves a huge space to fill, without doubt Spains Best ever midfielder .
For Spain now its time to get home, disconnect & examine what went wrong to rebuild & think about France 2016. There are plenty of young Spanish Players at World class level waiting for their chance.
Original Source: Spanish Ftball Sprts /Continuing with the daily posts that puts the team photos (32 Nations) of each of the Groups in the upcoming FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 that starts on the 11th of June in South Africa. Already Groups A, B & C ( see below ) have been featured with GROUP D today & Group E on tomorrow.
GROUP D
GERMANY
AUSTRALIA
GHANA
SERBIA
