Real Madrid reportedly to play in Beijing in August
The star-studded Spanish club Real Madrid will play a match against a Chinese side in Beijing on August 3 to commemorate the second anniversary of the capital winning the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, a local paper reported Saturday.
The star-studded Spanish club Real Madrid will play a match against a Chinese side in Beijing on August 3 to commemorate the second anniversary of the capital winning the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, a local paper reported Saturday.
The Spanish club has agreed to bring all its stars, including Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane and Raul Gonzalez, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
The match was announced Friday during a Beijing press conference.
The report did not mention the ongoing outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has spread worldwide from China and has been at the center of the cancellations of a series of political, economic, cultural and sporting events in China.