The Red Devils will face local team Kitchee at the 40,000-seater Hong Kong Stadium on July 29 as they seek to cash in on their huge support in the former British colony and in mainland China.
“The club has tremendous support throughout China and especially in Hong Kong,” said United chief executive David Gill. “We have visited on a number of occasions and after an eight-year gap it’s a pleasure for the team to be able to return to Hong Kong again this year.”
Kitchee’s chairman Ken Ng said United is ‘undoubtedly the best-supported football club here and their local fan base is legendary’.
Match organisers would not specify how much United will be paid but confirmed the Hong Kong government had contributed $1 million towards the fee.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2013.
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