Manchester United love Asia

Manchester United are doing everything they can to promote their Asian partnerships, and the players involved are giving it just the half-assed effort you might expect.

In the video above, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, and company are in a classroom learning a bit of Bahasia Indonesia ahead of their upcoming trip. I’m not exactly sure what phrases they’re learning, but I’m going to assume it’s something about exploiting the Asian market.

Next up is a promotional video for United’s “official destination partner” Seoul, South Korea…



Here the players couldn’t be bothered to do more than write down a single, generic descriptor of the city. I don’t know about you, but when I see Giggs holding a whiteboard that says Seoul is…fantastic! I have to all but restrain myself from stealing a credit card and buying plan tickets immediately.

My favorite, though, was the team’s fitness coach (did Fergie back out at the last minute?), who says Seoul is…24 hours! What does that mean? That the city exists on the same daily time schedule as the rest of the world? That’s good to know. Or maybe he’s trying to say that the city’s like some kind of a convenience store that never closes. If so, I can’t wait to go there just to buy a sandwich and a bottle of water when I’m too drunk to see straight.