Sentence examples for friendly tournaments from inspiring English sources

That's why American men's coach Bob Bradley wound up selecting three of four strikers for the World Cup who hadn't been part of the two-year U.S. ordeal of qualifying matches and friendly tournaments: he had very little to choose from.

He said: "We staged an under-16s invitational friendly tournament involving teams from across Asia.

In fact, Celtic, along with Arsenal, played in Australia in a four-team friendly tournament in 1977.

At the start of his final season as a professional, at Feyenoord, Cruyff played against Roma in a friendly tournament.

"Just one time for a friendly tournament with Atletico [Madrid], that was the only time I've been in a penalty shoot-out," he said.

England play Canada in Wednesday's final of the annual friendly tournament, having had already booked their place with wins over Finland and Australia.

The goalkeeper is expected to make his first appearance for Arsenal during the Emirates Cup friendly tournament, which takes place in north London next weekend.

Now he is set to join Newcastle in time for a pre-season friendly tournament set to take place from August 1-3 in … Mallorca.

I am happy with the safety measures in Kapfenberg and I'm sure it will be a friendly tournament that everybody can enjoy".

Liverpool's chief executive Ian Ayre is currently in Florida, where the Ukrainian club are preparing for a friendly tournament, and is hopeful of concluding a deal before the transfer window closes.

Sporting authorities and governments were urged to deliver a coordinated response to the problem at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester, where it was revealed a friendly tournament for under-16s in Hong Kong was affected and up to 80 countries a year have reported an incident.