Pre-Season in Brazil ?

This implies we're prioritizing a productive preseason over a profitable preseason which we don't usually go for.
 
KCblue said:
Like this as a change of pace. I definitely don't think three games is enough of a preseason and I'm sure we'll have games other than that, but it would be good to play some friendlies in Europe or maybe even get back in the Audi Cup like we were a few years ago.
Edit: found out the Audi Cup is every other year, so the next one is in 2019.
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Charity Shield maybe?
 
Metalartin said:
If we win enough silverware and prize money this season, we don't really need the pre-season to be about profit. I think it's a great chance for City to show the great work they do off the pitch using football, wont hurt to have some more Brazlian fans either, in fact South America as a whole deserves a little more back from the big European Clubs than they've got so far when you think about it.
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Spot on.

All these football nobodies like USA, China, Malaysia etc. have provided European football with almost no players ever. Yet that’s where all the European clubs go for pre-season.

But European football would really be nothing like it is if it weren’t for South America.

At City alone in the last decade we’ve had Elano Zabaleta Robinho Tevez Agüero Demichelis Fernandinho Caballero Otamendi GabrielJesus Ederson... We wouldn’t be the club we are without the South Americans. In Spain and Portugal there are swathes of South Americans!

I think it would be great if the European clubs started to go to South America for pre-season and allow the South Americans to see their boys back at their clubs. I’d imagine Allianz Parque would be rocking if City went there for a game with the Palmeirans getting to see Gabriel Jesus live.
 
I've often thought Pep's footballing philosophy was like that of the 1970 Brazil team (still the greatest international team in my book). They might let in the odd goal at the back but would score far more at the other end. They would dominate the pace of the game with possession and splaying passes around the field, only speeding things up on incisive attacks.

I also remember England did a pre-1970 Mexico World Cup tour of Brazil, and the Brazilian media enthused about 2 England players - Bell and Lee.
 
was in brazil...rio last February and went to a flamenco v botofogo game....well dodgy...kicked off before kick off and seriously shady after the game ..flamenco fans are nutters...anyone going be very wary.....
 
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