Football fans in Kerala have more reasons to cheer, as\u00a0Kerala Blasters, will take the field a little early this time when they take on La Liga club, Girona FC and Australian club, Melbourne City FC, in pre-season friendlies at their home ground in Kochi.<\/p>\n
The matches will take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from\u00a0July 24 to July 29.<\/p>\n
India’s first international football pre-season tournament,\u00a0Toyota Yaris LaLiga World, will be held in Kochi with Indian Super League (ISL)\u00a0club Kerala Blasters FC, Melbourne City FC\u00a0and Girona FC from LaLiga\u00a0locking horns in a three-way tournament.\u00a0The three sides\u00a0will play across five-day s\u00a0at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium in Kochi, starting on the 24th<\/sup>\u00a0of July.<\/p>\n The tournament has been created to showcase India as a pre-season football destination for clubs around the globe, with an aim to creating a calendar\u00a0event at a grand scale. It will celebrate the growing love and passion for the game\u00a0in the country and provide top-notch football action\u00a0to Indian fans who crave for a world-class experience.<\/p>\n This edition spans three continents and promises to be a truly international event.\u00a0One of\u00a0ISL\u2019s biggest clubs, \u00a0Kerala Blasters FC, \u00a0will\u00a0look\u00a0to kick-start their pre-season playing these top foreign clubs at home.<\/p>\n Australian club Melbourne City FC, managed by Warren Joyce, will come in after a third-placed finish in the hotly contested A-League, the best finish by the club in their history.<\/p>\n “High-quality opposition is an important part of our pre-season preparation, and we are delighted to be taking on both Kerala Blasters and our sister-club Girona FC in this brand new tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football fans in Kerala have more reasons to cheer, as\u00a0Kerala Blasters, will take the field a little early this time when they take on La Liga club, Girona FC and Australian club, Melbourne City FC, in pre-season friendlies at their home ground in Kochi. The matches will take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from\u00a0July 24 to July 29. India’s first international football pre-season tournament,\u00a0Toyota Yaris LaLiga World, will be held in Kochi with Indian Super League (ISL)\u00a0club Kerala Blasters FC, Melbourne City FC\u00a0and Girona FC from LaLiga\u00a0locking horns in a three-way tournament.\u00a0The three sides\u00a0will play across five-day s\u00a0at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium in Kochi, starting on the 24th\u00a0of … Continue reading “Kerala Blasters set to host Melbourne City FC\u00a0and Girona FC in Toyota Yaris LaLiga World Tournament”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[559,558,560],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-super-league","tag-girona-fc","tag-kerala-blasters","tag-melbourne-city-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}