And Now It’s Hong Kong for the Galaxy

The Galaxy are off to Asia. (Well, except for the ones with boo-boos which need care stateside. I read somewhere that those guys headed back Monday. I think this may have included Edson Buddle and his collarbone, but now I can’t find my source, so don’t quote me.)

But the others are heading off to play the previously mentioned games in S. Korea (FC Seoul on March 1) and China (Shanghai-Hong Kong United on March 5). And now we’ve added a trip to Hong Kong on March 9 (vs. Hong Kong Union) to the list. A bit more of an exotic schedule than the college/USL/other MLS sides those other loser teams are playing this preseason, huh? What fun it is being the SuperClub.*

And guess what? They’re all going to be televised on Fox Soccer Channel.

Isn’t this one of the best things about having Becks on our team? Remember last year when we were lucky to get a couple of paragraphs about our preseason games, and those usually took days to appear? Now we get to see them with our own eyes. Thank you, David.

All three games will be televised in the United States by the Fox Soccer Channel, the first and third live at 11:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The game against Shanghai-Hong Kong United will be shown on a delayed basis at 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on March 5.

Oh, and the most interesting part of the article?

Foreign tours are among the ways the Galaxy hopes to meet its goal of generating 100 million dollars a year in revenues, which would put it among the top tier of teams around the world.

Not that we didn’t know this already, of course. But I’m a little surprised to actually see them come out and say, “Yes, we are pimping the boys for huge bucks” in black and white.

(Okay, so I’m paraphrasing.)

With luck they’ll all have fun in the process, though, and come back home fit and uninjured.

*This is completely unrelated, but the word “SuperClub” made me think of it. Check out this rather humorous Alexi Lalas post over at Who Ate All the Cupcakes.

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