With the new season a little over a month away, I am getting really excited about the start of the new season. I wanted to play a little catch up on my blog about the preseason lengthy schedule and the positive effects it will have on the team. I also wanted to talk about the new Away and Alternative kit for Manchester United for their coming season.
The preseason already began and I won't to let everyone know you can watch all the preseason games on MUTV online. You have to pay for it but its only 8 bucks a month for News updates, reserves games, highlights and replays, and all the preseason games live. Anyways we played Aberdeen on Saturday and walked away with a 2-0 win. Michael Carrick scored a PK after Rooney was cut down by an Aberdeen defender. Then Wayne Rooney headed home a cross from the right side of the field in the second half, placing it over the keepers head on the far side. It was a great goal and left me thinking, maybe Shrek can score 20+ this coming year. All and all i felt as Fergie did that no one really impressed but I will say Carrick and Rooney both looked good. They both had a lot of quality passes, touches, and two good goals. Carrick calmly place the PK in the bottom corner and Rooney had a great header. I hope that is a common theme throughout the rest of the season.
The preseason continues this Saturday when United kick off there preseason tour of South Africa. The first game is against Kaizer Chiefs, a power house club by South African standards. The next stop is on Tuesday 7/22 when they take on another good S. African side, the Orlando Pirates. The next game on 7/26 will have the winner of the Kaizer Chief v. Orlando Pirates game play the Red Devils. Then the following day a game against Portsmouth in Nigeria. Rio Ferdinand is looking forward to this match as he does extensive charity work in the African country. Then its a bit of a break to travel back home and then we play RSD Espanyol at Old Trafford. This game on August 2nd will be a great game for the club as it is the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer testimonial match. I think we all can agree that the Baby Faced Assassin will always be a United legend and was a true great to football. Then we play Peterborough away on the 4th of August. Finally we finish our preseason against Juventus at home on the 6th of August in what will also be the trophy presentation to the fans, will Ronaldo be there?
The lengthy preseason I think will be a great thing as it will get our large squad plenty of minutes to get everyone up to a good fitness standard before the long really tough season in front of us. We need to be able to count on our bench like we could last year and part of that is getting all of them plenty of minutes.
Some absentees will be Anderson and Dong Fanzhou as both will be representing their respected countries in the Olympics. I am really happy about this because both need more experience and what great experience to have. I hope they fair well and hope the U.S.A. can make some needed progress in the competition so I can have something to hope for.
We have new away and alternative kits for the coming year. The away kits are ugly and the alternative kit are solid blue and look good. Not sure what the idea was for the new away kits, one blog described it as looking like a Navy sailors outfight and I could not agree more.
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