Re: Atlético y Manchester City sellarán una alianza
Athletic and Manchester City sealed a strategic alliance
Atletico project continues to advance its cooperation agreements with clubs around the world and the last will be a bombshell: the City of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Previously, close agreements with Mexico's America, a Brazilian league club, the Japanese and the MLS. U.S..
Atletico hopes officially sealed in the spring, after finishing the Premier League and Championship, the most important strategic alliance in its history: an agreement with Manchester City. Atletico, dogged by debts that plague the Spanish football, enjoy having as a partner to present the greatest economic power of English football. Both clubs look for all kinds of sponsorships common share and exchange secrets quarry players. The signing ceremony will take place simultaneously in Madrid and Manchester, will serve to close the largest global association football sets together.
This alliance will have a minimum of ten members and a maximum of twelve, of whom seven are confirmed: Manchester City (England), Raja Casablanca (Morocco), Al Ain (UAE), United Muangthong (Thailand), Shanghai Shenhua ( China), America (Mexico) and Atlético (Spain). The following three teams will join Brazil (Atletico Paranaense are shuffled, Palmeiras and Internacional), U.S. (Red Bull New York, San Jose and Chivas USA) and Japan (Yokohama Marinos and FC Tokyo).
This global alliance, the pioneer in football, have a common goal: to seek sponsorship and expand the image of each member club worldwide. For Atletico, comes at a perfect time as it seeks investment to help with the construction of the comb and the future sports Alcorcón city and the name that will take its new stadium. And in this alliance include some of the best supported clubs in the world: as the Al Ain (Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi), Muangthong (Siamsport, owns 90% of television rights in Thailand) or the City (Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Prime Minister of Presidential Affairs of UAE).
In early August, the clubs agreed a friendly tournament played to occupy much of the preseason teams. Yet to decide on the name and address of the trophy, to be played with two mini-leagues of five teams.