To celebrate the sixth annual Vancouver - Guangzhou Friendship Cities Cup, the Vancouver Whitecaps have announced they will take on Crystal Palace FC at BC Place on Tuesday. July 19th.

The Friendship Cities Cup is an annual friendly that sees a team of players from the Vancouver Chinese Soccer Association taking on the Guangzhou Super Football Club. This year, the two cities will be celebrating the 31st anniversary of their sister cities relationship.

The Whitecaps will take on Crystal Palace first at 7 pm, and the Friendship Cities Cup will be played right after, at 9 pm.

Sounds like it could be a truly awesome day at the soccer pitch.