During the official grand opening of the Zions Bank Real Academy, club owner Dell Loy Hansen announced that a team from Germany’s Bundesliga would be playing a friendly match against Real Salt Lake this summer:
RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen stated RSL will play a Bundesliga team in a friendly this summer, but is contractually not able to say which team yet.
— Lucas Muller (@lucaswmuller) February 28, 2018
That’s exciting news for a number of reasons. It brings soccer from a part of the world that hasn’t been seen in Utah before, and gives fans here a chance to see an example of the fast-paced play that the top flight in Germany is known for.