Four French soccer clubs will participate in a preseason tournament at Audi Field this summer, people close to the situation said Thursday, and one (Olympique Marseille) will face D.C. United in a friendly.
The other teams are Saint-Etienne, Montpellier and Bordeaux. The semifinals will be played July 18 and a third-place match and championship game three days later.
The Marseille-D.C. match is slated for July 24 — a midweek test between MLS games at Atlanta and Chicago — and serve as the second of three United friendlies against foreign clubs. Spain’s Real Betis will visit Audi Field on Wednesday and a Latin American team, probably Mexican, will come in September.