August 8th: Real Madrid vs Roma in New york

[MadridForever]

The Real Madrid will play a friendly match against the Roma in New york the August 8th. The Real Madrid will visit the ONU before the game, And the money of the game will go to the ONU's Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria that kill millions people each year in the third wold countries.

The Real Madrid will travel to New York the August 6th and return to spain the August 10th.


I had read this in the official members bulletin that the RM send to his members periodically.

I think that is the first time that the RM visit USA. Anybody have more information about this new?

[Labdarugo]

Advertising and promotion for this game has been virtually non-existent. Many soccer fans here don't even know about it. Can you believe it? It's being handled by the state sports organization (the ones who run Giants Stadium) and not by the Metrostars, the local MLS club. There's some bad blood between the two organizations.

There's more about this in the Metrostars forum here:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2250&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

You actually may know more about this game than we do! What's ONU, btw?

[MadridForever]

Sorry, ONU is the spanish name of the United Nations.

I have found a link in the United Nations web about the game:

http://www0.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4273&Cr=hiv&Cr1=aids

summary of the news :
"24 July – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the announcement that two champion European football teams will play an exhibition game in the United States to raise money for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, a UN spokesman announced today .......... A proportion of the funds raised will be shared by United Nations programmes to combat HIV/AIDS and the independent Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The Secretary-General will make brief remarks at the opening of the match, along with New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey ........The match – an initiative of the Real Madrid club as part of its centennial celebration – will ......... take place at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on 8 August at 7:45 p.m. "


They also say that "... a billboard will be erected at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel ...". I don't know if that will help to promote the game.

Thank you for the Metrostars link, I have put my opinion about the game in the thread.

I think that will be a good game, the Real Madrid is celebrating its centenary and also they are preparing to play the SuperEuropean Cup, that is a few days after. And the cause of the game is a good cause. I'm sure that they won't go to New YorK of tourism.

[Excape Goat]

Originally posted by Labdarugo
Advertising and promotion for this game has been virtually non-existent. Many soccer fans here don't even know about it. Can you believe it? It's being handled by the state sports organization (the ones who run Giants Stadium) and not by the Metrostars, the local MLS club. There's some bad blood between the two organizations.

There's more about this in the Metrostars forum here:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2250&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

You actually may know more about this game than we do! What's ONU, btw?

I found out about this game from here. I do not live in NY, but I would be in town. Being a Real Madrid fan, I finally get to wear it in a game.

[MadridForever]

Originally posted by Excape Goat


I found out about this game from here. I do not live in NY, but I would be in town. Being a Real Madrid fan, I finally get to wear it in a game.

I hope that the Real Madrid play a good soccer and that you and all people spend a good time in the stadium.

[mtp1]

Does anyone know where Real MAdrid will be staying? I'm going to be in NYC on business that weekend and have already bought tickets to the match. I wanted to see, if possible, if I could meet the players and get autographs. Any info is welcomed. Thanks.

[Malaga CF fan]

I assume you just go through ticketmaster to get the seats?

How much are the tickets? What time does the match start?

[BazoDee!]

Originally posted by Malaga CF fan
I assume you just go through ticketmaster to get the seats?

How much are the tickets? What time does the match start?
www.ticketmaster.com

http://www.meadowlands.com/EventDetails.asp?EventID=713&facility=Giants%2BStadium

The flyers and meadowlands website say 7:45pm.

Tixare $30, $40, $50, $60 and $75.

[MadridForever]

Players that will travel to New York:


Goalkeepers: Casillas and Cesar.

Defenders: Helguera, Hierro, Miñambres, Pavón, Roberto Carlos and Míchel Salgado.

Midfields: Solari, Makelele, Flavio, Figo, McManaman, Celades, Cambiasso and Zidane.

Forwards: Morientes, Savio y Portillo.


Raul and Guti won't travel because they are injured.


2001/2002 Most repeated line-up:

------------------ Casillas/Cesar

Roberto Carlos----Hierro--Helguera/Pavon----Michel Salgado
Solari/Macca----------Zidane---Makelele-----Figo
---------------Raul------Morientes/Guti


I would put attention in Cambiasso and Portillo. They are two great players of the young teams that could play in the start team this year. Portillo is the player that have made more goals in the history of the RM young teams, and Cambiasso is a midfield that play in the position in witch played Redondo (some people say that he could be the next Redondo) .

[Labdarugo]

Originally posted by BazoDee!

www.ticketmaster.com

http://www.meadowlands.com/EventDetails.asp?EventID=713&facility=Giants%2BStadium

The flyers and meadowlands website say 7:45pm.

Tixare $30, $40, $50, $60 and $75.

7:45 pm is correct. However, it seems that only $30 seats are left.

[Labdarugo]

Originally posted by mtp1
Does anyone know where Real MAdrid will be staying? I'm going to be in NYC on business that weekend and have already bought tickets to the match. I wanted to see, if possible, if I could meet the players and get autographs. Any info is welcomed. Thanks.

I read someplace (Real Madrid's own site?) that the team arrives on Tuesday and departs on Friday. Try to find out where they'll be kicking around on Wednesday if you want to see them up close. My total and clueless wild guess would be one of the colleges in New Jersey since the Meadowlands is in NJ and their hotel is probably nearby. Try e-mailing the home office. Good luck. :)

[Jose L. Couso]

I have read (in another thread over in the USMNT???) that 40,000 tickets have been sold.

[MadridForever]

The Real Madrid will be stayed in the hotel Hilton and they will train in the Giants Stadium.



This will be the RM schedule in the New york:

August 6th
*8:10 (13:10). Departure to New York.
15:10 (21:10): Arrival at JFK Airport.
19:00 (01:00): Press conference at Hilton Hotel.

August 7th
11:00 (17:00). Visit to the UN Secretary General.
12:00 (18:00). Reception at the Spanish Embassy.
19:00 (01:00). Training session at "Giants Estadium".

August 8th
20:00 (02:00). Real Madrid - Roma.

August 9th
10:00 horas (16:00). Training session.
18:05 horas (00:05). Departure to Madrid.
07:00 hora española. Arrival at Barajas Airport.

*Nueva York, Spanish time between brackets.

[Pichi]

Originally posted by MadridForever
The Real Madrid will be stayed in the hotel Hilton and they will train in the Giants Stadium.



This will be the RM schedule in the New york:

August 6th
*8:10 (13:10). Departure to New York.
15:10 (21:10): Arrival at JFK Airport.
19:00 (01:00): Press conference at Hilton Hotel.

August 7th
11:00 (17:00). Visit to the UN Secretary General.
12:00 (18:00). Reception at the Spanish Embassy. .
That is not correct, they will visit the Spanish Consulate as the Spanish Embassy is located in Washington DC.

Saludos y Viva Er EuroBeti Manque Alfonso y Lopera!

Pichi

[MadridForever]

Originally posted by Pichi

That is not correct, they will visit the Spanish Consulate as the Spanish Embassy is located in Washington DC.



I am sure that you are right, but i copied the schelude of the Real Madrid Web page and in the "Diario As", they also speak about "Embassy". Maybe the confusion is that is a lunch that make the Spain's Embassy in his consulate in New York.

There is the link about the RM visit to New York. Is in spanish.

http://www.as.com/articulo.html?d_date=20020807&xref=20020806dasdai_65&type=Tes&anchor=dasftbA05

[MadridForever]

Del Bosque comments in the Hilton' s Press Conference:

"We are going to play with the best players that we have. We want to be to the height of which it is expected of the best club of 20th century and our intention is to give a beautiful spectacle. The bad thing is that the rival is stronger of which I would have wanted (laughts) ..."


Some pictures of the Real Madrid in United Nations:


http://www.as.com/foto.html?xref=20020808dasdai_54&fref=20020808dasdai_22.Ies&anchor=dasftbA05&type=Tes&d_date=


http://www.elpais.es/foto.html?xref=20020808elpepidep_13&fref=20020808elpepidep_2.Ies&anchor=elpepidep&type=Tes&d_date=20020808

[Pichi]

Originally posted by MadridForever


I am sure that you are right, but i copied the schelude of the Real Madrid Web page and in the "Diario As", they also speak about "Embassy". Maybe the confusion is that is a lunch that make the Spain's Embassy in his consulate in New York.


Every one knows that an embassy is always in the nations capital and all other diplomatic representation is housed in consulates of foreign affairs offices. The Spanish sports rags have lousy journalists who don't do their homework. Today it was announced that Pepsi Cola which finally got involved in soccer in 1997 according to the story was going to be a sponsor for Real Madrid. That's a bunch of BS. Betis had Pepsi Cola on their jerseys in 1990-91 as one of their sponsors.

Anyone could have told them that. Now days it's so easy to log on the web and find out factual data that it makes these bozo's look even dumber and lazy. For the most part these sports journalists are a bunch of buffoons!

Saludos y Viva Er Beti Manque Alfonso y Lopera!

Pichi

[Pichi]

0-0 Here is AS's commentary.

Pichi




El Madrid dibujó un cuarto de hora de cine, pero careció de remate ante el Roma de Guardiola. Casillas evitó la derrota con tres paradas antológicas.


ZIDANE, REY DE LA GRAN MANZANA. El crack francés fue, con diferencia, el mejor jugador del partido de Nueva York, junto a Iker Casillas. Zidane deleitó con sus controles de pelota y sus pases. ( A, APARICIO )


PEDRO PABLO SAN MARTÍN


Nueva York se rindió al fútbol superlativo que el Real Madrid exhibió durante un cuarto de hora para el recuerdo, y valoró el mérito de una igualada sufrida y labrada ante un rival italiano que con la llegada de Guardiola ha ganado en criterio y que, además, sigue contando con ese veterano de guerra que en las áreas irrumpe como un toro de lidia: Gabriel Batistuta.

El partido de la ONU sirvió para reivindicar el liderazgo futbolístico de cracks con mayúsculas como Roberto Carlos o Zidane, que en los primeros 15 minutos enamoraron a esos 70.000 norteamericanos que anoche descubrieron que el fútbol puede llegar a ser tan espectacular o más que ese béisbol o basket NBA que tanto les apasiona. Fueron 15 minutos de ciencia-ficción en el que al Madrid sólo le faltó pegada. Mejor dicho. Le faltó Ronaldo. Con el brasileño, este equipo puede resultar una máquina imparable.




El Roma reaccionó después gracias al talento de Guardiola, pero enfrente tenían a Casillas. El arquero estuvo soberbio en su debut de la pretemporada y dibujó tres paradas antológicas ante Batistuta (minuto 23), Samuel (min. 61) y Tomassi (min. 74) que demuestran que el portero titular del Madrid para el nuevo curso sólo puede ser el canterano. El Madrid apenas tiró a puerta y sólo pudo romper el 0-0 en un cabezazo de Portillo que se fuera fuera por muy poco.