Football: Liverpool set for China debut

SINGAPORE: English Premiership giants Liverpool will kick off an Asian tour next month with their first ever game in China, where they are estimated to have tens of millions of fans. The Reds, who visited Thailand and Singapore two years ago, will play a friendly against Guangdong Sunray Cave in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou on July 13, before heading to Malaysia. “Our football club and the city of Liverpool have great links with China. The city of Liverpool has the oldest Chinese community in Europe,” said club managing director Ian Ayre.“As a global football club, it is important to us that we give our fans in China the chance to see the team in action.“At Liverpool FC we take these games very seriously. This game will be our first as we kick off our preparations for the 2011/12 campaign.”



Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2011.