Real Madrid on the way to America

Real Madrid are en route to Los Angeles, where they will stay until 7 August

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Real Madrid are planebound for Los Angeles, where they will land at approximately 1:20 am CET on Thursday. The team will stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel located on Sunset Boulevard.

The 18 players who are making the trip will begin two-a-day workouts on Thursday on the UCLA campus. The US tour includes a match against Club America in San Francisco on 4 August followed by a game against the LA Galaxy in the Rose Bowl on 8 August. The team will then travel to Germany, where on 13 August they will play against Bayern Munich in a match in honor of club President of Honor Franz Beckenbauer. The tour wraps up on 17 August with a game in Belgium against Standard Liege. Real Madrid will then return to Spain where they will play against Hercules in Alicante and the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy.

US & EUROPEAN TOUR
DATE	MATCH	VENUE
04/08	Club America - Real Madrid	Candlestick Park (San Francisco)
07/08	Los Angeles Galaxy - Real Madrid	Rose Bowl (Los Angeles)
13/08	Bayern Munich - Real Madrid	Allianz Arena (Munich)
17/08	Standard Liege- Real Madrid	Stade de Sclessin (Liege)

Players traveling to US: Dudek, Adan, Pepe, Marcelo, Garay, Drenthe, Diarra, Lass, Granero, Gago, Pedro Leon, Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema. Youth teamers: Nacho Fernandez, Marcos Tebar, Alex Fernandez, Juanfran, Alvaro Morata. Other World Cup and Under-19 internationals will steadily rejoin team over the next few days.

Real Madrid returned to Spain

Real Madrid team back in Madrid after more than a week of preseason training in Ireland

Real Madrid are back on Spanish soil after ten days of intense work in Ireland. The team will have Thursday off and return to work on Friday to begin preparing for Sunday's Peace Cup opener.

The flight from Dublin landed at Madrid's Barajas International Airport at approximately 20:00. The team will enjoy a day off prior to a double session on Friday beginning at 9:30.

The Whites will not leave Spain again until 7 August, when they are scheduled to travel to Toronto, Canada.

Real Madrid flies to Colombia

Real Madrid left from Madrid's Barajas Airport at 11:00 am. They will land in Bogotá at 17:30 local time. Their forthcoming friendly with Independiente has caused a sensation in the Colombian media.Schuster has taken Dudek, Codina, Salgado, Heinze, Torres, Pepe, Antón, Diarra, Guti, Baptista, Robinho, Robben, Javi García, Raúl, Van Nistelrooy, Saviola, Callejón and Van der Vaart with him. The latter is in perfect shape thanks to the work he did during Hamburg's pre-season and could make his debut with Real Madrid against Independiente.
Tight scheduleReal Madrid will stay in Bogotá's Victoria Regia Hotel. The squad will train at the Nemesio Camacho Stadium after a few hours' rest. Once the session is over, Schuster and Raúl will give a press conference. Thursday will see the squad dividing into two groups to attend the different acts devised by the company that's organised the event. The Madridistas will rest for two hours after lunch prior to the 17:30 game.
The Club's Board Members, led by President Ramón Calderón, will be greeted by their Independiente counterparts and representatives of the local authorities in an official luncheon.
Meeting with the President of ColombiaThe trip will also be used to strengthen the ties between the Club and Colombia. Ramón Calderón will be greeted by President Álvaro Uribe in an official reception. They will sign an agreement by which the Club's Foundation will compromise itself to open a new Social Integration Academy in Colombia.
After the match, Real Madrid will fly back to the Spanish capital, where they will land at 14:30 CET on Friday. They will go back to training on Sunday at 19:00 to start preparations for their Tuesday friendly against Frankfurt.

Match Report:LASK Linz-Real Madrid

LASK Linz-Real Madrid

Madrid coach Bernd Schuster made several unusual alterations to his side ahead of the fixture, with Jerzy Dudek taking Iker Casillas' goalkeeper slot and Javi García dropping back into central defence due to Pepe's injury.But despite the makeshift nature of the line-up, after a disastrous settling-in period that saw Madrid go 1-0 down the Spanish side were not to prove troubles at all for the vast bulk of the game. While giving away such a cheap goal will worry the boss, the way his side rallied to recover will surely boost his spirits, although the late consolation for LASK will not.

LASK Linz 1-3 Real Madrid
1-0 Saurer 14'
1-1 Julio Baptista 20'
1-2 Raúl 45'
1-3 Saviola 84'
2-3 Mijatovic 90'

Real Madrid:
Dudek; Salgado, Heinze, Javi García, Torres; Diarra; Robben, Guti, Julio Baptista (Sneijder 46); Raúl (Saviola 46), Higuaín (Van Nistelrooy 46).

Real Madrid Preseason

After a week in the Algarve, Real Madrid now travel to Irdning to tackle hard pre-season work. This is the fifht year the team trains in the Austrian town. Double training session a dayThe players have gradually adapted to work in the Algarve during the past week. They will arrive in Irdning at 18:50 this evening to intensify their training.The squad will attend a double session every day at the sports facilities of the Scholss Pichlarn Hotel, where they will stay the next ten days. Men who played in the Euro but still haven't rejoined the team will do so througout the week . Sergio Ramos, Casillas, De la Red and Metzelder will be the last to arrive. The only players missing will be those who are set to participate in the Olympic Games this summer. Friendly on 27 JulyReal Madrid's first friendly of the season will be against Austrian First Division side Lask Linz. The encounter will serve to see in what physical condition the players are in.The squad will travel to London three days later to participate in their most important summer tournament this summer: the Emirates Cup. They will face Hamburg, Juventus and host side Arsenal. The team will return to Madrid two days later only to leave for Colombia on 6 August to play in a firendly in Bogotá. On 12 August they are set to face Eintrach in Frankfurt in their last match prior to the first Spanish Super Cup clash.