LA GALAXY 1 - REAL MADRID 4 | REAL MADRID PRE-SEASON 2011 US TOUR

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SPANISH FOOTBALL action this early morning (Sp time) with REAL MADRID playing LA GALAXY in their first Friendly game of the season. The Spanish Football Club defeated the locales Captained by David Beckham 1 - 4 in an impressive match considering Real is full of new signings & its the start of the season.

Ronaldo scores against LA Galaxy

Coach José Mourinho experimented & used two teams during the encounter basically changing players at half time. These were the line-ups:



Real Madrid: Casillas (Adán, 46'); Ramos (Arbeloa, 46'), Pepe (Albiol, 46'), Carvalho (Varane, 46'), Marcelo (Nacho, 46'); Granero (Xabi, 46'), Khedira (Cristiano, 46'), Coentrao (Casado, 74'); Kaká (Özil, 46'), Callejón (Jesé, 64') & Joselu (Benzema, 46')

The beamed TV highlights showed a good Real Madrid team with everyone looking relatively fit & sharp, especially the newcomers. New signing JOSE CALLEJON scored first in the 33rd min from a Kaká pass, youngster JOSELU got the second in the 39th min with some fine forward instincts, CRISTIANO RONALDO scored an individual play "blinder" in the 57th min & BENZEMA headed a fine COENTRAO pass in the 57th min. The Americans managed a consolation goal via CRISTMAN in the 66th min. Real Madrid Coach Mourinho was relatively happy as was Ronaldo in the post match interviews, with special mentions going out to Coentrao & Callejon.

Too early to draw any drastic predictive conclusions, except that Real Madrid played well, looked good & has chosen the correct pre-season working path to build themselves up before the official start of the Spanish Football season.


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REAL MADRID PRE - SEASON 2011 SUMMER WORLD TOUR

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SPANISH FOOTBALL Club REAL MADRID started on Monday ( yesterday ) their pre-season & flew off immediately to Los Angeles (USA) to begin their training sessions . Four players stayed back in Madrid that indicate the Coach Jose Mourinho does not count with them for 2011-2012; Pedro Leon, Sergio Canales (also with U-20 Spain duties), Drenthe & Lass Diarra.

Said this what it also signals is an intense couple of weeks of Friendly games & travelling that the actual Club has called the Real Madrid World Tour 2011. The Club Marketing Department has whipped up this video below to advertise their upcoming Friedly matches in the US , Europe & in Asia (China).

Although the video is a bit pretentious & at times "over the top", it is true to the marketing  policy of the Club & does do its work in informing fans across the World about dates & cities that the Spanish Football Club will be attending. With this last bit in mind & knowing that this site receives a big number of readers from USA & China I though I put on the video as an informative piece. Hope the team lands soon in your city.

For the FC Barcelona fans their team starts pre-season next Monday.
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