EPL’S Leaders Manchester City Come to the USA again for 2018 Pre-Season tour
Soccer News: English Premier League leaders Manchester City will travel to the United States this summer to play a series of matches during the Club’s 2018 pre-season tour, presented by Visit Abu Dhabi.
New York City has been confirmed to host one of the matches, with further destinations and opposition teams to be announced in the coming weeks. City’s matches will see the team compete in the United States International Champions Cup tournament for the second year running.
- Manchester City will travel to the United States to play a series of matches ahead of the 2018/19 soccer season
- New York City confirmed to host a match
- City’s matches will be part of the International Champions Cup tournament
Manchester City is progressing well across all four competitions this season. The team is leading the Premier League by 15 points and will compete in the final of the Carabao Cup Final later this month.
City has also qualified for the knock-out stages of the UEFA Champions League and are through to the fifth round of the FA Cup.
This comes after last summer’s successful pre-season tour of the US where the team visited Houston, Los Angeles, and Nashville.
To announce the upcoming tour, City defender Benjamin Mendy visited New York City to surprise local fans and deliver the exciting news in person.
Speaking at a fan event of the top of the Rockefeller Center, Mendy said, “It’s been amazing to come to New York City to announce the tour and give some local fans a real surprise! The soccer fans in the United States are so passionate about the game and it’s always a pleasure to visit here.”
“When I go back to Manchester and tell the players about my trip,” said the French international, “I know they will be really excited to come here in the summer. We can’t wait to play in front of our US fans again.”
Did you know Manchester City Football Club was founded in 1880?
Manchester City FC is an English Premier League club initially founded in 1880 as St Mark’s West Gorton. It officially became Manchester City FC in 1894 and has since then gone onto win the European Cup Winners’ Cup, four League Championship titles, including two Premier League titles (2012, 2014), and five FA Cups. Manchester City FC is one of eight teams comprising the City Football Group and counts New York City FC and Melbourne City FC among its sister clubs.
Under manager Pep Guardiola, one of the most highly decorated managers in world football, the Club plays its domestic and UEFA Champions League home fixtures at the Etihad Stadium, a spectacular 55,000 seat arena that City have called home since 2003. Today, the Stadium sits on the wider Etihad Campus, which also encompasses the City Football Academy, a state-of-the-art performance training and youth development facility located in the heart of East Manchester. Featuring a 7,000 capacity Academy Stadium, the City Football Academy is also where Manchester City Women’s Football Club and the Elite Development Squad train on a daily basis and play their competitive home games.
