Kiev is a friendly international — no points, only principles, depend upon it.
England will play Germany in a friendly international in Berlin on 26 March next year.
THE service, by a friendly international crew, was impeccable; courteous to sometimes fawning, but never pushy.
Van Marwijk selected de Jong for the World Cup despite another "tackle" that broke the leg of the American player Stuart Holden during a friendly international last March.
But this kind of old-fashioned bullying does more than just undo China's worthwhile efforts to project a friendly international image.
To shape a friendly international environment for its rise, Beijing needs to develop more high-quality diplomatic and military relationships than Washington.
The Brazilian football authorities have denied claims that Ricardo Teixeira, the body's president and the man in charge of the 2014 World Cup, was involved in embezzling funds from a friendly international between Brazil and Portugal three years ago.
Only when the Birmingham City midfielder describes his trip back to Senegal, where two weeks ago he played in a friendly international against Nigeria to raise money for the families of the victims, does his voice betray emotion.
