New York City FC has announced its first opponent for 2017: Ecuadorian Serie A club SC Emelec of Guayaquil.
The friendly match will take place at 7:00pm ET at the Estadio Banco del Pacifico, classically known as the Estadio George Capwell.
(Capwell, an industrialist from western New York, founded the club in 1929, naming it after the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, a power company he managed. He was the team’s player-coach for the better part of two decades.)
After winning three straight league championships from 2013-15, Emelec finished runners-up to their local rivals, Barcelona SC, for the 2016 title.