KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Manchester United will play a friendly soccer match in Malaysia on July 27, the Football Association of Malaysia said Wednesday. The match is a government and private sector initiative in conjunction with "Visit Malaysia Year 2007," association deputy president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama.
United will take on a yet to be determined Malaysian invitational team, selected by the government and made up of club and international Malaysian players.
Tengku Abdullah denied the match would undermine attendance at Asian Cup pool games to be staged in Malaysia — one of the tournament's co-hosts — during July.
The likelihood of the match was originally raised in September last year after Manchester United signed a deal to support tourism in this Southeast Asian country.
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