Real Madrid roster for pre-season tour finalized!

Real Madrid has released their final roster that will be participating in their pre-season tour. As previously reported the team will train in Los Angeles for two weeks and play two friendlies in Southern California, before heading eastward.

New signings Nuri Sahin, Jose Callejon, Raphael Varane and Fabio Coentrao have been added to the list along with 6 Castilla youth players (Jose Fernandez Collado, Tomas Mejias, Jose Casado, Jose Nacho Fernandez, Jese Rodriguez, and Jose Luis Mato San Martin).

Those players participating in the Copa America will not be attending the training camp at UCLA (Gonzalo Higuain, Fernando Gago, and Angel Di Maria). Sergio Canales is participating in the U20 World Cup with Spain. Hamit Altintop who is still recovering from back surgery will not be available. Plus Pedro Leon, Royston Drenthe and Lass Diarra will not be attending due to technical decisions. In other words, they are available for sale or loan. (Along with Fernando Gago and Sergio Canales, in my opinion).

New Sporting director Zinedine Zidane and RM mainstay Emilio Butragueño will be travelling with the team, along with everyone's favorite Real Madrid TV personality, Kay Murray (LA Only)


Here's the complete squad list:


GOALKEEPERS
Antonio Adán
Iker Casillas
Jose Fernandez Collado
Tomas Mejias

DEFENDERS
Raul Albiol
Alvaro Arbeloa
Jose Casado
Fabio Coentrão
Jose Nacho Fernandez
Marcelo
Pepe
Sergio Ramos
Ricardo Carvalho
Raphael Varane

MIDFIELDERS
Jose Callejón
Esteban Granero
Kaká
Sami Khedira
Mesut Özil
Nuri Sahin
Xabi Alonso

FORWARDS
Karim Benzema
Cristiano Ronaldo
Jese Rodriguez
Jose Luis Mato San Martin





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Real Madrid & Barça ~ Back in the USA!

Here is a list of the friendlies taking place in the USA. No surprise, the two biggest clubs in Spain and the World will be returning to this side of the pond as part of the World Football Challenge. 3 games will be played by each team respectively. It's going to be a great summer.


Jose Mourinho loves Southern California for pre-season. Last year he came with Real Madrid, prior to that Inter Milan and Chelsea. I do love the fact that Real Madrid plays the local MLS teams, along with a "local" Mexican team (hahaha). Yours truly, Elisa will be attending the LA and SD games.


Saturday July 16 ~LA Galaxy v Real Madrid - World Football Challenge
Venue: Memorial Coliseum - Los Angeles CA


Wednesday July 20 ~ Real Madrid v Chivas Guadalajara - World Football Challenge
Venue: Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego CA

Saturday July 23 ~ Philadelphia Union v Real Madrid - World Football Challenge
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA


Barçelona likes to move around to different venues as part of their pre-season, but do tend to arrive at the same part of the year to the States. Who will have the majority of fans in Miami and Texas? Do you think that this friendly is a bit of a payback to Miami for the MLS team snafu?

Saturday July 30 ~ Barcelona v Manchester United - World Football Challenge
Venue: FedExField - Landover MD

Wednesday August 3 ~ Barcelona v Chivas Guadalajara - World Football Challenge
Venue: Sun Life Stadium - Miami FL

-Saturday August 6 ~ Barcelona v Club America - World Football Challenge
Venue: Cowboys Stadium - Arlington TX

Friendly: Liga Ungherese - AC Milan

Earlier this week AC Milan played a friendly against a Hungarian League Team in Budapest.

Liga Ungherese - AC Milan 2-5 Highlights

Goals: 7' Rajczi (H), 37' Kakà (M), 47' Shevchenko (M), 57' Tokoli (H), 62' Shevchenko (M), 73 Seedorf (M), 85' Viudez (M).

Milan's line-up:
Kalac - Mattioni, Senderos, Thiago, Jankulovski - Beckham, Ambrosini, Seedorf, Kaka - Ronaldinho, Shevchenko.

Hungarian League Team:
Nemeth; Miskolczi; Meszaros, Horvat, Laczko; Tisza, Horvath, Farkas, Sipos; Rajczi, Kabat.