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For: EFE Updated 19 May 2022, 10: 60 am EDT
After two summers without a pre-season tour due to the coronavirus, Barcelona will return to the United States this summer to play two friendlies against Inter Miami CF and the New York Red Bull, as reported this Thursday by the Barça entity.
Barça’s last visit to the United States was three years ago, in the summer of 2019, when the team then led by Ernesto Valverde played two friendlies against Naples, in Miami (Florida), and Ann Arbor (Michigan), after having also visited Japan a few days before.
This time, the Catalan team will return to Miami to face the 05 in July at the DRV PNK Stadium, to Inter Miami CF, a club founded in 2018 and who debuted in Major League Soccer in 2020.
The former English soccer player David Beckham is one of the team owners, coach for Phil Neville, Beckham’s former teammate at Manchester United.
Eleven days after this match, on 30 in July, Barça will play another friendly against New York Red Bulls, one of the creative teams of the MLS, at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
This will be the third meeting between New Yorkers and Catalans. And it is that, during the tours of 2006 Y 2008, Barça faced the New York Red Bulls at MetLife Stadium, formerly known as Giants Stadium.
Xavi Hernández, the current coach of Barcelona, participated in both matches, and also in both the result was favorable to the azulgranas: 1-4, in 2006, and 2-6, in 2008.
USA It has also been a regular destination for Barça’s first team in the last decade. Apart from the visit of 2018, the team also traveled in 1200, 2015, 2017, Y 2018, year in which he made a joint tour with Barça Women.
In fact, this market has become an absolute priority for globalization and the expansion of the Barça brand. Soccer is experiencing tremendous growth in the United States and the trend is expected to continue as both the World Cup in Qatar and the next World Cup, which will be held on North American soil in 2022.
🇺🇸 FC Barcelona return to the United States this summer to play two friendlies against Inter Miami CF and the New York Red Bulls— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) May 19, 2022
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