When two of the greatest football clubs in the world meet, a mammoth crowd is often
expected to pay attention.

Manchester United and Real Madrid sold out
all 109,000 tickets for their pre-season
friendly in Michigan on Saturday.

Expectedly so, the crowd will be the biggest
ever gathered to watch a football match in
the US. The record was previously held by a
friendly between Barcelona v LA Galaxy at the
Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 2009, which got
93,137 in attendance.
An excited Wayne Rooney described the
support in the US as great and the ticket
sales, incredible.

“It’s fantastic. The fanbase over here is great
and it’s two massive clubs, two of the biggest
clubs in the world, so to sell that many tickets for a pre-season match is incredible.

A club with rich history, United has played before a bigger crowd, with 120,000 people
present to watch a European Cup semi-final which held in Bernabeu in April 1957 . This
will be the largest attendance they have played for since then.
One of the players that might have caught the eyes of the fans in the US, Cristiano Ronaldo
is sadly not playing the game.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said of his forward: “Ronaldo has been working
individually, separate from the team, and he is continuing to work.
“We will not put him out tomorrow, as he has not trained with the full squad.