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Real Madrid finishes USA tour on a high

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The Spanish giants secured a hard fought 2-0 victory against Glasgow Celtics in their final preseason fixture at the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lincoln-c22276 Financial Field, Philadelphia, in front of 34,018 spectators.
Jose Mourinho and the core of his first team returned to the Santiago Bernabeu after over two weeks of preseason training in the United States. The Portuguese travelled to the serene American countryside for the third time in as many seasons.
Real Madrid were involved in four friendly fixtures as part of the 2012 World Football Challenge. They took on the challenge of LA Galaxy, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Santos-c40446 Laguna, AC Milan and Glasgow Celtic during the tour.
The Capital club registered victories in all of their matches, doing well to ensure that repeat of their blunders in Eusebio Cup against Benfica are not repeated again on the footballing pitch.
Jose Callejon was the hero for Los Blancos on the night as he opened the scoring with 22 minutes on the score board. The Real Madrid cantera product continued to add to his tally in the preseason, that now stands at five strikes.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 followed the youth academy graduate on the score-sheet on the 67 minute mark, all but securing an important victory against the Scottish standard bearers.
After the completion of their preseason friendly tour, Real Madrid returned to the Spanish capital with the exemption of five first team players. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Costa-Rica-c2877, reporting
to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vicente-c36001 Del Bosque for international duty.
A statement on the official website of the club revealed that the players have been given an extended rest period and will restart training on Wednesday, 15 August.
“Real Madrid is now in the capital of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011. After a long flight, the Whites landed in Terminal 4 at Barajas airport around six o´clock in the morning.”
“Real Madrid has successfully completed its pre-season commitments after winning the four matches they played in their tour of the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/United-States-c3034. After flying to the capital from Philadelphia in the early hours of Sunday, Real Madrid will rest until Wednesday
afternoon, which is when they go back to work in Valdebebas. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/José-c19246 Mourinho will lead a training session at 18:00, which will be behind closed doors,” the statement read.
 

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