Tuesday's Column: Galaxy meet the Real world

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid are training at UCLA ahead of the game against the Galaxy Saturday in Pasadena (AFP/Getty Images).

Regular readers know I'm not a big fan of the innumerable international exhibition games we've seen this summer, but for everything there is an exception and in Southern California that exception is Real Madrid.

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