Manchester: Manchester City and Chelsea will complete an end-of-season double header in the United States by playing each other in a friendly at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 25.
City, the current English champion, and Chelsea, last season's Champions League winner, were already scheduled to play a friendly two days earlier at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
City have toured North America for two of the last three years in an attempt to boost their profile in the region and chief executive Ferran Soriano said Monday that "we are enthusiastic believers in the development of soccer in the U.S."
Yankee Stadium has only staged two football matches, both in 2012 - Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid's 5-1 victory over AC Milan....
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08:21 PM, Apr 08, 2013
The 24-year-old has recovered from a thigh injury that forced him out of the side's 2-2 draw with Russia this month. ...
02:55 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Ramires suffered a strained right adductor during Chelsea's 2-0 Premier League victory over West Ham on Sunday. ...
02:34 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Kaka is the only player in Scolari's current 23-man squad to have played in Brazil's 2002 World Cup triumph. ...
02:31 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Modric's mediocre season at Real has raised doubts about his international place but Croatia coach Stimac says the midfielder will again be his driving force in this month's WC qualifying matches. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
English club Arsenal will play a friendly against Vietnam's national team on July 17. ...
06:14 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Mathieu Valbuena gave France the lead against Germany, but Thomas Muller and Sami Khedira hit back to give Germany the victory. ...
05:41 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Germany claimed their first win over France in 26 years when goals by Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira secured a 2-1 win. ...
08:10 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Pep Guardiola will see a familiar team in one of his first games in charge of Bayern Munich when his new club faces his former side Barcelona in a friendly on July 24. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is confident he will take part in Wednesday's friendly against Ecuador despite feeling a certain 'overload'. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Malaga's Isco and Chelsea defender Azpilicueta have been included in Spain's squad for next week's friendly against Uruguay in Doha. ...
07:58 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart and Arjen Robben have been left out of the Netherlands squad for next week's friendly against Italy. ...
07:30 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Gomez is back in Germany's squad for Wednesday's friendly against France in Paris. ...
05:00 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Faro, Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 36th international goal and Nelson Oliveira scored his first as Portugal beat Panama 2-0 on a day of international friendlies where the world and European champions Spain beat Puerto Rico 2-1. Ronaldo span around on the edge of the area and fired a half-volley past Jaime Penedo in the 51st minute after Panama midfielder Gabriel Gomez was sent off for elbowing Joao Moutinho. Oliveira,...
09:44 AM, Aug 16, 2012
London: Lionel Messi scored and missed a penalty in Argentina's 3-1 win in Germany and Belgium stunned Netherlands 4-2 as a flurry of new coaches and debutants cut their international teeth in friendlies on Wednesday. With 2014 World Cup qualifying games approaching fast in September, Didier Deschamps had a dull start as France coach with a 0-0 stalemate against Uruguay and Fabio Capello's first game in charge of Russia ended...
08:56 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Florence: Mario Balotelli insists he's not crazy, although he does acknowledge that he "can do strange things" from time to time. The temperamental 21-year-old instead said he considered himself to be entertaining and ready to take on responsibility. For example, Balotelli recently had to evacuate his house in England after fireworks were let off in his bathroom. And he has been questioned by Naples prosecutors over a visit with the...
07:16 AM, Nov 11, 2011
London: England skipper John Terry could be on the bench or even play against world and European champions Spain on Saturday, while being investigated by the police and the English FA for alleged racist remarks in a Premier League match. Terry, who has strongly denied the allegations, was named in the England squad by coach Fabio Capello on Sunday after originally being told he would not play because the Italian...
09:15 PM, Nov 08, 2011
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12:57 PM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: A 30-member Indian squad has been selected for the twin international friendlies against Maldives and Qatar on Julu 10 and 17 respectively ahead of their World Cup qualifier against United Arab Emirates scheduled on July 23. Although there were a few injury scares, senior players Sunil Chhetri, Steven Dias have all made the cut and the two matches will give the newly appointed national coach Armando Colaco a...
03:35 PM, Jul 05, 2011
London: France gave England a lesson in technique when they beat them 2-1 at Wembley on Wednesday in a largely one-sided friendly between two of the World Cup's biggest under-achievers. Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena put the visitors 2-0 up before Peter Crouch volleyed a goal back in the 86th minute, seconds after coming on as a substitute. That goal gave the scoreline an air of respectability that flattered an...
08:44 AM, Nov 18, 2010
