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Chelsea to face Mexican team on West Coast
(Ticker)
Updated: 2007-05-25 08:40

Chelsea will play Mexican giants Club America in the first game of their preseason tour to the West Coast of the United States, the club announced Thursday.

The FA Cup winners will use the game, to be played on Saturday, July 14, at Stanford University's new 50,000-seat stadium in northern California, as a warm-up for the World Series of Football tournament in Los Angeles the following week when they will play Korean side Suwon Bluewings and David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy.

The tour will be the fourth consecutive preseason visit to the U.S. Jose Mourinho's squad will again train at UCLA before heading to the Bay Area to take on Club America for the inaugural Disney Friendship Cup.

In a statement, Mourinho promised more new faces in his squad for the U.S. tour.

"Club America is playing at a very high level right now