Red Bull New York and Soccer United Marketing (SUM) announced today that 2006 UEFA Champions League Winner FC Barcelona will play the Red Bulls at Giants Stadium on Aug. 6th as part of the club’s U.S. Tour. Game time is slated for 7:00 PM ET.
Tickets will be available exclusively for Red Bulls season ticket holders to add-on additional seats (Barcelona tickets are already included in full season ticket plans), as well as for current 8-Game and 4-Game plan holders to purchase their seats, from Monday, June 2nd at 10 AM through Tuesday, June 3rd at 5 PM. After this exclusive window, group tickets and a special ticket package that includes the FC Barcelona match and the LA Galaxy match on Saturday, July 19th will be available exclusively through the Red Bulls front office and on www.newyorkredbulls.com. For more information please call 1.877.RBSOCCER. 4-ticket packs for the FC Barcelona match will go on sale Friday, June 13th, with Individual tickets going on sale through TicketMaster on Tuesday, July 1st.
This will mark Barcelona’s third trip in the last five years to the United States, as the team toured the US in 2003 and 2006. The two sides matched up during the 2006 tour, with Barcelona emerging with a 4-1 win in front of a near-record breaking Giants Stadium crowd of 79,002 on Aug. 12.
FC Barcelona, coached by Josep Guardiola and recognized for its spectacular brand of attacking soccer, featured some of the world’s greatest players this past season, including FIFA World Player of the Year runner-up Lionel Messi (Argentina), three-time African Player of the Year Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon), and two-time European Golden Boot winner Thierry Henry (France).
Along with Messi, Eto’o and Henry, the Catalan giants have seven other players who featured in the recent 2006 World Cup in Germany. This list includes Mexico’s standout defender Rafael Marquez, Lilian Thuram (France), Gianluca Zambrotta (Italy), Carlos Puyol (Spain), Xavi Hernandez (Spain), and Iniesta (Spain).
NOTE: Some of these players are out of contract. None of the above players are confirmed to play in the match.
Barcelona will be making their first trip to the United States since 2006, when they took part in a three-game summer tour of the United States. FC Barcelona played at the Los Angeles Coliseum (1-1 vs. Chivas de Guadalajara on Aug. 6th), at Reliant Stadium in Houston (4-4 vs. Club America on Aug. 9th), and the fixture against the Red Bulls. Following the matches this August, the team will return to Spain to continue its preseason ahead of the kick-off to the 2008-09 La Liga season.
Barcelona completed the 2007-08 La Liga season in third place and advanced to the semifinals of the Champions League as well as the Spanish Cup.
May 30, 2008
RED BULLS TO PLAY FC BARCELONA AUGUST 6TH AT GIANTS STADIUM
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I went to see New York play them in 2006 in Giant Stadium and it was the greatest atmosphere I have had the pleasure of being a part of. Sold out crowd, or close to it Messi chants and Ronaldinho chants when ever they touched the ball, man what day it was, I will for sure make it to this game.
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