St Albans City, who will play in the Southern Premier League for the 2011/12 season, have announced two home friendly matches in their pre-season build up.
The Saints who appointed Dave Howell as their new boss as few weeks ago are due to entertain a side sent by Premier League new boys Queens Park Rangers and FC Gabala of Azerbaijan. Gabala are managed by none other than ex Arsenal legend Tony Adams and play in the Azerbaijan Premier League (or the Unibank Premyer Liqasi as it's known after it's main sponsor). The ex England international took over as boss last May and took his new club to a 7th placed finish in the table.
As well as players from Azerbaijan the team has a number of foreign players in the squad such as Deon Burton (ex of Charlton Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and Derby County to name a few of his old clubs) and Steve Olfers (a dutch footballer ex of PSV Eindhoven, Aab, Sparta Rotterdam and FC Den Bosch amongst others). Terry Cooke is also in the squad, he started out with Manchester United from 1994 to 1997 and then went on to represent Sunderland, Birmingham City, Manchester City, Wigan Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday, Grimsby Town, Colorado Rapids and North Queensland before joining Adams at Gabala. There are two Brazilians in Bruno Dos Anjos and Bruno Da Silva Barbosa alongwith Serbian Milan Antic, Romanian Razvan Tarlea, Former Guinea international Abdulkaber Kamara and Argentian Kristian Torres make up a very interesting international squad of players.
The game against QPR is on Monday 18th July with a kick off time of 7.15pm and FC Gabala visit on Sunday 24th July with a 1pm kick off. Please check the club's website to confirm kick off times nearer the date if you fancy going.
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