Spain’s Atletico Madrid football club will come to Hanoi the next summer, according to AS newspaper on November 24.

They will play against T&T Hanoi and another unidentified Vietnamese club team.

They will be paid EURO 1.5 million for this match and are also believed to be about to lease their stadium name to a Vietnamese business for 10 years at a cost US$10 million.

Last week, Atletico Madrid’s CEO Manuel Agel Gil, Peter Kenyon and Jorge Mendes visited Hanoi at the invitation of T&T Hanoi’s Chairman Do Quang Hien.

Atletico Madrid currently ranks the 18^th at the Liga after ten matches.

Selling stadium names has become a trend in modern football circles. Arsenal sold its stadium name to Emirates Airways of the UAE for GBP100 million for 15 years. Chelsea also hopes to sell the name of its stadium (Stamford Bridge) to Samsung.

In the last two football seasons, the name of Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai group has appeared on advertising boards during Arsenal’s matches.

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