FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – With Cruzeiro dropping out of the August 4 doubleheader at Gillette Stadium, Honduras club C.D. Olimpia has been tabbed as the replacements to face Italian giants A.C. Milan. The friendly match will kick off at 4:30 p.m., followed by the regular season MLS match of the New England Revolution vs. Sporting Kansas City at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tickets are slated to go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 11, starting at $35 for individuals. Prior to Brazilian powers Cruzeiro canceling their participation due to a scheduling conflict, tickets were set to start at $45 for individuals \u2013 $10 higher than the new price now that Olimpia replaced Cruzeiro \u2013 and go on sale on June 29.<\/p>\n
AC Milan has visited Foxboro twice before, falling to Inter MIlan 2-0 on Jul. 26, 2009, in front of 42,531. Previously, Milan lost 1-0 to Chelsea on Jul. 24, 2005, in front of 26,208. Milan\u2019s star-studded includes Italian stars Massimo Ambrosini and Antonio Cassano, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, French center back Philippe Mex\u00e8s, and Brazil\u2019s Alexandre Pato, Robinho and Thiago Silva.<\/p>\n
Olimpia will be visiting Foxboro for the first time. The Honduran club has won 25 Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol de Honduras titles, including both the 2011-12 Apertura and Clausura titles. Olimpia have been regulars in the CONCACAF Champions League, but have never advanced past the Quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
The most recent Honduran National Team squad featured five current players on Olimpia and three Olimpia players are set to be a part of Honduras\u2019 Olympic team in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italian power A.C. Milan will now face Honduras club Olimpia in Gillette Stadium doubleheader on Aug. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}