The Portugal star will take on his former club in the clash between the
reigning Champions League and Europa League winners on August 8
Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid will take on Manchester United
in the UEFA Super Cup in Macedonia on August 8.
Zinedine
Zidane's team booked their place in the start-of-season showpiece by beating
Juventus in Saturday's Champions League final, with Ronaldo scoring twice in
the 4-1 victory in Cardiff.
It was Los Blancos' 12th victory in the competition and sets up
yet another date in the Super Cup, which pits the Champions League holders with
their Europa League counterparts.
United
won the Europa League - and booked their place in the 2017-18 Champions League
group stage - by seeing off Ajax in May. Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan
scored in their 2-0 win in Stockholm.
It
will be the first meeting between the two clubs since the 2012-13 season, when
Madrid knocked United out of the Champions League in controversial
circumstances after Nani was sent off in the second leg at Old Trafford.
The 2017 UEFA Super Cup will be played on Tuesday, August 8 at
20:45 CEST / 19:45 BST. It will take place at the Philip II Arena in Skopje,
Macedonia, which holds 33,460 fans.
Skopje
is a four-hour flight from Manchester and the Premier League season will start
the weekend immediately following the Super Cup, so Jose Mourinho's 2017-18
campaign will begin as the 2016-17 one ended - with travelling and fixture
congestion.
United have only won the Super
Cup once - back in 1991, when they played European champions Red Star Belgrade
as Cup Winners' Cup champions. They lost to Lazio in 1999 and Zenit in 2008
after winning the Champions League.
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