Genuine Madrid's summertime tour will have stops at the Rose Bowl and Las Vegas

The International Champions Cup, a summer months tournament started by the Relevent Sporting activities Team and global soccer executive Charlie Stillitano, often brought as numerous as 8 top European golf equipment to the U.S. for a series of exhibitions prior to the opposition was suspended two yrs in the past for the reason that of COVID-19.

With the pandemic fading, Relevent will stage a 4-group women’s ICC in August in Portland, Ore. But the men’s competitiveness has however to return. So on Friday, AEG, a major sports and amusement producer and the father or mother business of the Galaxy, introduced it was stepping into the void with a five-workforce, nine-day summer time tour headlined by Authentic Madrid, the newly minted Champions League winner.

Real Madrid will enjoy three video games, ending with a July 30 date with Italy’s Juventus at the Rose Bowl. Also participating is Spanish huge Barcelona and Mexico’s two most well known teams, Club América and Chivas de Guadalajara.

The tour will kick off July 22 with Juventus conference América at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Real Madrid will play Barcelona the subsequent working day in the exact same stadium, marking just their fourth meeting outside the house Europe and their next in the U.S. Barcelona defeat Serious Madrid on penalty kicks in an ICC game in South Florida in 2017.

Barcelona and Genuine Madrid have been scheduled to meet in a person of the first sports situations at SoFi Stadium in August 2020, but that video game was canceled by COVID-19.

Authentic Madrid will then confront América at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on July 26 with Barcelona enjoying Juventus at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on the exact same working day ahead of the tour concludes with Actual Madrid-Juventus in Pasadena. The July tour will mark the to start with appearances in the U.S. by Authentic Madrid and Barcelona considering the fact that 2019. Juventus last performed below in 2018.

Barcelona is scheduled to enjoy two extra friendlies with MLS groups through its U.S. stop by, dealing with Inter Miami on July 19 and the New York Purple Bulls on July 30.

For the two Mexican teams, the exhibitions will be a warm-up for the Leagues Cup exhibitions at SoFi on Aug. 3, when the Galaxy will enjoy Chivas and América will experience LAFC. América is also scheduled to enjoy Chelsea on July 16 in Las Vegas.

“Following numerous years without having looking at some of these teams in the United States, we are thrilled to offer the possibility for soccer followers in the U.S. to at the time yet again check out their favored European and Mexican clubs perform in individual,” Tom Braun, the senior vice president of soccer and enterprise operations for AEG, explained in a assertion.

Tickets for all 5 AEG-sponsored games will go on sale to the general public June 17. Lovers can register for a Wednesday presale at SoccerChampionsTour.com.

The Women’s ICC, meanwhile, will characteristic the Portland Thorns, the NWSL Problem Cup winner in 2021 Liga MX Apertura champion Monterrey Lyon, the reigning European champion and Chelsea, the Women’s Tremendous League and FA Cup winner.

Portland conquer Lyon 1- in the WICC last previous summer time.

The tournament will just take location Aug. 17-20 at Portland’s Providence Park and will consist of 4 matches performed as two doubleheaders. On the first match day, Lyon will meet Chelsea and the Thorns will perform Monterrey. The winners will fulfill in the last Aug. 20 with the to start with match-day losers participating in in a 3rd-place match the similar day.

Tickets will go on sale on the ICC website later this thirty day period.