There’s no such thing as a offseason break when you’re NYCFC’s Head Coach,Patrick Vieira will spend this week at City Football Academy in Manchester observing Pep Guardiola’s work with the Manchester City FC first-team.
Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber has revealed that teams 25 and 26 will be announced during the second or third quarter of 2017 at an expansion fee of $150 million each and will begin playing by 2020, with teams 27 and 28 to be added at a later date.
The Santiago Bernabeu is home to one of Europe's most successful club. With nine European titles to their name, Real Madrid's place in the upper echelons of world football is secure, and there could be no more fitting venue for such a club to play.
Barca, the colloquial name for Fútbol Club Barcelona or F.C. Barcelona, is known and respected throughout the world as one of its premier teams, and is one of only three never to have been relegated from the Spanish La Liga. It is one of the most famous football teams in Europe, second in Spain only to Real Madrid. In fact, according to the official statistics it was the most successful team worldwide between the years of 1991 and 2015.
Old Trafford is the second largest stadium in England and home to Manchester United FC. The stadium has a capacity of 75,811 seats. In the first decade of the 20th century Manchester United played its matches at a 50,000-stadium at Bank Street, when then president Davies began planning for a new stadium with double that capacity. A site was chosen near Trafford Park industrial estate, and architect Archibald Leitch appointed to design the stadium.