Barcelona and Real Madrid will renew the stateside portion of their rivalry this summer in Las Vegas, where the Spanish giants will play a July 23 friendly at the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.
The pair met five years ago in Miami. It was a 3-2 Barcelona win attended by more than 66,000 that was part of the International Champions Cup, an ambitious offseason tour designed, in part, to pave the way for a La Liga game on American soil. That match never materialized and the ICC shut down during the pandemic.
This year’s American El Clásico is part of a five-game, five-team slate called the “Soccer Champions Tour.