Details of the Montréal Impact pre-season tour of Portugal will be made available later today.
They will play 3 matches, including one against a first division club. FC Porto, Sporting?? (wishful thinking!?) ...
More later.
Update:
( From montrealimpact.com)
After four weeks of training camp in Montreal, the Impact will continue its winter preparation at the Training Center of Melgaço, located 150 km northeast of Porto. The Impact will fly to Portugal Sunday and will be back in Montreal on March 5.
During its stay in Europe, the Impact will play three exhibition games. The team should face off a second division club, SC Freamunde (League of Honour), Wednesday, February 24 at the Estadio Sport Clube Freamunde, a third division club, GD Ribeirao (Second division, Northern Zone), Saturday, Februray 27 at Estadio do Passal and finally, a first division club, Rio Ave FC (League 1), Wednesday, March 3 at Estadio dos Arcos.
Forward Peter Byers (knee), midfielder David Testo (abdomen) and defender Stephen deRoux (personal reasons) will not be joining the team overseas.
During its games in Portugal, the Impact will use training jerseys provided by its official technical supplier LEGEA. The official 2010 jerseys will be unveiled when the team returns home in March.
So, the first division club the Impact will face is Rio Ave, who currently sits 9th in the 16 club Portuguese D1 table. They will be trying to slip a few by goalkeeper Carlos Fernandes , who recently played for Angola at the 2010 African cup of Nations.
On another note, what's going on with Stephen De roux?? Training camp started on January 25th and he is still missing because of "personal reasons". You would think the club would give us a clue or an idea as to the length of his absence? I'm not implying anything at all here, but I really hope it's not rehab or anything like that. It would be a tremendous loss if he were not to come back.
The club also mentions they will reveal the new 2010 jerseys when the team gets back in March, so if your reading (which they probably are not..) please, please NO sky blue!
I asked a contact at the Impact about the jerseys last week, he said he hadn't seen them yet.
ReplyDeleteI'm not expecting sky blue, but rather a blue more akin to the one we've seen on the practice jerseys, which is a lighter shade of blue, as was reported from people who claimed to have seen them. The sky blue, as I recall, was throw around on the impactsoccer board, but wasn't based on any real fact.
As for the portuguese D1 team, I was hoping for Benfica, but oh well, can't be picky I guess. It's still a D1 team from a decent european league.
On the contrary, I think that this blog is Joey Saputo's homepage.
ReplyDeleteJeremy, your too kind...
ReplyDeleteI hope your right about the jerseys Franckie, because sky blue is not my cup of tea and doesn't seem to be too popular with most of the supporters.
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