The Red Bulls will be hosting an English U11 team for the match against FC Dallas on Saturday, as the team will be in town to play some friendly matches.
The team, Oswald Road junior Football Team from the Manchester area of England, has as one of its members the son of Ian Whittell, who covers the NBA for several English newspapers. Whittell is friends with Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, who has a son on the Montclair U11 team that will play Oswald Road.
The team arrived at Newark International on Wednesday, and went to the Yankees game yesterday. Today the team will play Isola’s team before playing Downtown United at 3:30pm at Pier 40 before attending the Red Bulls match. The team returns to England on Sunday.
Oswald Road hopes to host either Montclair or Downtown United in return matches sometime in the near future, and possible take the young Americans to a Manchester United match.
Notes: The Manchester suburb where the team is from is called Chorlton and is located about one mile from Old Trafford... half of the team supports Manchester United and half support Manchester City and will have seen Claudio playing (and Osorio coaching) for City when he was there… the team’s best player, Omar Benali has just been signed to Man City's Academy (at the age of 11!) so these will be his last games playing for them.
Jun 20, 2008
RED BULLS WELCOME ENGLISH U11 CLUB SIDE ON AMERICAN TOUR
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AWESOME!! Just what we need, more little kids running around the stadium. They are the future, who needs sophisticated soccer fans from NYC when we can just bend over backwards for kids?
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