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Preseason 2019: 30 New York City FC Players Traveling to Abu Dhabi

New York City FC flies to Abu Dhabi this evening with the official 30 man traveling party as the Club’s 2019 preseason gets underway.

In addition to training, The Boys in Blue will take on FC Copenhagen and AIK in friendly matches on February 3 and February 8 respectively.

Offseason acquisitions Luis Barraza, Keaton Parks and Tony Rocha make the journey, as well as returning loanee, Ebenezer Ofori and the Club’s newest Homegrown signing, Justin Haak.

In addition, five NYCFC Academy players will join the first team in Abu Dhabi: 2018 Academy Player of the Year Nico Benalcazar is joined by Alex Rando, Tayvon Gray, Vejlko Petkovic and Dante Polvara.