'friendlies' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe a friendly or informal relationship, usually between two people or two groups. For example: "The two companies had a long history of friendlies, so the merger went smoothly."
Leo Messi's 300th league game for Barcelona, his 500th across competitive games and friendlies, ended with Carlos Naval, the club's matchday delegate, leaving the pitch with the ball under his arm.
Pre-season friendlies have always been among the more whimsical dates in the football follower's diary, or at least they always used to be until the leading clubs began jetting off to all economically viable points of the globe in search of extra income and latent support.
The real badges of honour for the more intrepid/dedicated/lunatic fringe of a club's support will be the pre-season friendlies in Norway or Canada.
Friendlies are expected to be arranged against some top-notch international sides, experience that could be vital for the growing number of young players that Vieira has been introducing to the squad.
"We're in a good place," says the Welsh-born coach, who led the team to 10 straight qualifying wins but has lost friendlies to Germany and the United States in recent months.
Most people might take the view that Real Madrid in a pre-season friendly against Championship opposition does not really count as the real Real Madrid, though for some supporters pre-season friendlies, by the nature of their obscurity and illogicality, represent a challenge that regular fixtures cannot offer.
They struggled to arrange friendlies and training sessions were frequently disrupted.
Matt Besler, the young Sporting Kansas City central defender, who will play in the MLS Cup final on Saturday, and has made a surprise run into a starting position for the national team, also felt that Klinsmann's choice of playing tough friendlies whenever possible would stand his team in good stead: "I think that was the mindset of why we scheduled hard friendlies for situations like this.
As dead-air friendlies go it is hard to imagine a more pointlessly provocative choice of fixture, an occasion that basically boils down to a game of chicken with the more unpredictable elements of the away support.
A congressional inquiry found no evidence to support this, though it confirmed that the Brazilian team had agreed to play an inordinate number of "Nike friendlies"—exhibition games that drained the players' energies.However, the congressional inquiry hinted at a different scandal: the destination of the money that Nike paid over.
Key players were missing and it is hard to motivate players for friendlies.
