The Sevillein its desire to introduce its brand in the Asian market, will make a 9-day tour in South Korea, where expectations were raised with the visit of the team from Julen Lopetegui is big. So much so that the 44,000 seats available for the friendly match they will play against Tottenham Hotspur on July 16 they were sold out just twenty minutes after the opening of their sale. The match, the first friendly for the Nervionenses this summer, will be played at the World Cup Stadium in the South Korean city of Suwon.
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The Seville club is visiting South Korea for the first time, where the squad led by Lopetegui for the fourth consecutive season will hold their first training camp of the season between July 8 and 17.
“The Suwon World Cup Stadium has that name because it was one of the venues for the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and in fact it was where Spain made it to the quarterfinals in a penalty shootout against Ireland,” he recalls. the Seville.
This will be the Andalusian team’s first preparation match for the 2022-23 campaign and is surrounded by great interest in a country in which football is the second sport that arouses the most interest, only surpassed by baseball, although it is expected that overturning occurs sooner rather than later, since it is the sport most followed by the young South Korean population, highlights the Seville in your writing.
The Seville will be measured this preseason, in addition to Tottenhamto the Arsenal and to leicesteralso from the English Premier League on a second tour of the islands on July 30 and 31, as well as Cadiz in the Antonio Puerta trophy at the Sánchez Pizjuán on August 6 and at Sporting of Portugal at the José Alvalade stadium in Lisbon.
John Pelegrin
