The Galaxy host Manchester United in a meaningless, but money-spinning friendly at StubHub Center on July 15, just four days before LA is scheduled to host a midweek MLS regular-season game against Vancouver in Carson.

Gee, wonder which game will draw the bigger crowd?

On July 26, Manchester City plays Real Madrid at the Coliseum as part of the extravagantly named, but ultimately irrelevant, International Champions Cup. Even the Galaxy are cynically trying to cash in, “partnering” to sell the game to its ticket base.

The latest version of the 11-day tournament announced this week that began in 2013 will be the biggest yet, with eight foreign clubs sucking up American dollars that could have gone to support the domestic game.

That July 26 contest — just as meaningless, but similarly lucrative, as the LA-United clash — comes just three days after a scheduled CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal in Pasadena and on the same day as the final of the tournament in the Bay Area.

This won’t become a summer of soccer, as promoters are fond of calling these international friendlies.

This will be a summer of soccer oversaturation.

Yet again.

Marketing experts will suggest the highly fragmented U.S. soccer market can handle this.

English Premier League fans generally don’t attend MLS games, especially ones on Wednesday nights, for instance, the conventional wisdom goes.

But there is some overlap.

Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid, for instance, is huge in the Latino community and especially among Mexican-Americans.

The Galaxy also rely heavily on the Latino demographic, a group by the way that often buys their tickets on game day.

The Galaxy are set to play an MLS game against the Seattle Sounders on July 29 in Carson, just three days after the Real Madrid game.

At some point, soccer fans with finite disposable income will have to make hard choices about which games to attend.

How often will MLS be the loser, not the beneficiary, of this? The Galaxy have an average attendance of fewer than 22,300 for their first two home games this season.

And why are spineless governing bodies like CONCACAF allowing a private promoter to essentially undermine the sporting and competitive integrity of its premier regional tournament, not to mention potentially the marketing and commercial structure of the event?

Not too many nations that aspire to be a major soccer nation would allow promoters to undermine its domestic game like this.

Increasingly, these fake tournaments like the ICC are all about bait and switch.

The fraud begins by advertising the famous club and its biggest stars.

Then some or all of those names are traded in the offseason. Or injured. Or need a rest. Or on national team duty. Or whatever.

And those stars that do bother to show generally play 45 minutes or less in what is often a glorified training session.

Fortunately, MLS (mostly) and the Galaxy are taking a break for World Cup games this weekend.

Guess you have to when more than 50 of your best players are on international duty.

The Galaxy don’t play again until April 1 against Vancouver and won’t play in Southern California again until an April 7 contest against Montreal in Carson.

But don’t worry, there’s always someone ready to cash in and fill the void.

This Saturday, Chivas and Club Leon play a friendly in Carson during the Liga MX break.

A check on ticket availability this week shows pretty much all the most inexpensive seats are gone. And that’s even with tickets starting at $35, more than double what the Galaxy charges for its cheapest seats.

There are still seats available though — for $170 apiece.

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