Arsenal will face its Champions League "tormentors" Bayern Munich in a preseason friendly in China. Arsenal was "hammered" 5-1 by the German side in each leg of their recent Champions League match. The two will play at Shanghai Stadium on July 19, as part of the Int'l Champions Cup (London TELEGRAPH, 3/14).
Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund and Serie A side AC Milan will meet in the ICC in Guangzhou, China. On Tuesday, the German club announced that it will play Milan on July 18, "with further fixtures on the tour to be revealed soon." Other Bundesliga teams are "also expected to make the trip to China in the summer," with Schalke Marketing Dir Alexander Jobst saying that there are "concrete plans" for a match between two German sides (ESPN.com, 3/14).
Fifty-two 3x3 basketball teams (men and women combined), from 28 countries, will compete in two qualifiers staged for the second consecutive year in Szolnok, Hungary, and Riga, Latvia, on Aug. 5-6. The best teams will earn tickets to the third edition of the FIBA 3x3 U18 Europe Cup, which will be held in Debrecen, Hungary, from Sept. 1-3 (FIBA).