In the recent years Middle-Eastern clubs and the South East Asian clubs has been drawing a lot of stars from Europe who are past their prime. Their main objective? Improve the awareness and invoke the interest in local football.
Abu Dhabi International Tournament is ongoing at Dubai and guess who are in the finals. Liverpool and Barcelona. Yes the U-16 English team and the Cadet A of Barcelona will be facing against one another in Zayed Sports City for the final.
Liverpool thrashed Hamburg 5-0 in the semi final and Barcelona beat a local team Al Dhafra 4-1. Spanish media is excited about the exploits of Barcelona and has covered this story about the competition. Miguel Martinez, Guilem Mico, Jandro Orellana and Enric Martinez each got a goal to their name and Sergi Gomez was MVP of the match. English media has not covered the news yet about this tournament but if Liverpool U-16 happens to win then we surely hope to know about the lads that made that happen.
