With the return of the North American SuperLiga looking more and more unlikely, Major League Soccer announced on Friday that MLS teams will be part of a second edition of the World Football Challenge, a summer friendly tournament that had previously featured Inter Milan, Chelsea, and AC Milan.
2011 World Football Challenge To Include International And MLS Teams
The first edition of the Challenge was held in 2009 and included four teams playing six matches over the course of a week in late July. The 2011 Challenge appears to be much more extensive, taking place over three and a half weeks between July 14 and Aug. 6, with a slate of MLS and international teams yet to be announced.
The North American SuperLiga, a summer tournament with MLS and Mexican teams was first played in 2007. It has not been scheduled for 2011 and neither MLS nor any of the clubs that would be involved have made any mention of the competition in their schedules for the current season. The announcement of an expanded World Football Challenge that will include MLS clubs probably means that the competition will take the place of SuperLiga for 2011.
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