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TWO FRIENDLIES ANNOUNCED

Posted on: Wed 14 May 2014

Chelsea Football Club is pleased to announce our first two fixtures of the summer, with pre-season games against Wycombe Wanderers and AFC Wimbledon confirmed.

A Chelsea XI, comprising a mixture of first-team and Academy players, will travel to League Two Wycombe's Adams Park on Wednesday 16 July for Matt Bloomfield's testimonial.

The game will kick-off at 7.45pm to celebrate Bloomfield's career with the Chairboys, which started in December 2003. The former Ipswich Town trainee has gone on to make more than 300 appearances for Gareth Ainsworth's side.

Our second fixture, with a similar squad due to senior players being on World Cup duty, will take place three days later at 3pm on Saturday 19 July at the Cherry Red Records Stadium, formerly known as Kingsmeadow, home of AFC Wimbledon and Kingstonian.

AFC finished last season two places above Wycombe in 20th position in League Two, and are managed by former Wimbledon player Neal Ardley.

Ticket details for both matches will be announced in due course, while they will also be shown live on Chelsea TV

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I wonder if they'll be doing any tours abroad this preseason?

Would be nice to do a European tour. 

 

Another trip to Japan or south-east Asia would be neat but I'm not sure the squad would appreciate that before the new season.

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Would be nice to do a European tour. 

 

Another trip to Japan or south-east Asia would be neat but I'm not sure the squad would appreciate that before the new season.

 

I am kind of thinking that if there were a year they don't do a tour abroad it would be this year with the world cup and all that. With many of our players going to Brazil I doubt the club will want to wear them out with even more travel before the season starts.

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The world cup probably rules out any international tours, but I wouldn't be surprised if a couple 'blockbuster' friendlies are arranged in a couple of richer corners of the Earth.

Pre-season's very much about the money these days, all the big clubs will be entertaining the highest bidder.

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Is that the reason we haven't played a friendly at home since?

Can't recall the club saying that there wouldn't be any more home friendlies because of what happend against Celtic. Anyone know differently?

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Think the last friendly at home was in August 2006 when we played Celtic. There was trouble after the game.

I remember. A bunch of us old timers on this forum picked that match for a piss up, and we all dived under a table in the Pelican when police on horses charged through the street, going after a group of Celtic supporters. We didn't spill a drop though and went on drinking under that table :-)

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We will take on RZ Pellets WAC, NK Olimpija Ljubljana, Vitesse Arnhem and Werder Bremen - in Austria, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Germany - with Jose Mourinho's squad set to embark on a continental training camp ahead of the new season.

 

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3883980/title/four-european-pre-season-dates-announced

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