Wanderers manager Sammy Lee and Royals counterpart Steve Coppell have brought strong squads for the July 12-21 tournament where they will face French champions Lyon, Argentine giants River Plate and Spain's Racing Santander.

Also taking part are South Korea's Sungnam Ilhwa, Japan's Shimizu S-Pulse, and Chivas Guadalahara of Mexico.

Bolton, who are in the UEFA Cup this year, get the competition underway on Thursday against Sungnam, followed by matches against Chivas and Racing Santander.

Lee is looking forward to the challenge.

"We just had a week away in Austria which was mainly about fitness preparation," he told the club website.

"Now it's time to tie it all in with the games. You can do all the fitness work you like but when you get into the games you'll find out about it.

"We've got three -- hopefully four -- very important games and competitive games. This is about getting our shape, our style and our fitness.

"I am seriously looking forward to it because the boys have had a great week in Austria."

Lee was boosted this week with news that Nicolas Anelka is set to stay at the club after being linked with a move to Arsenal.

"This is a great club with a strong mentality based around being successful. We are heading to South Korea this week and that will be a good test for us," said Anelka, who is in Korea.

The Royals play River Plate on Friday, Lyon next Monday and Shimizu on July 19 with Coppell taking a look at how his squad fares in those matches.

Reading have been linked with Nantes midfielder Emerse Fae, but so far have only landed Khalifa Cisse from Portuguese side Boavista to bolster the side having lost Steve Sidwell to Chelsea and Greg Halford to Sunderland.

"We want to do well but these are our first games of pre-season and we have to be mindful of a lot of factors," said Coppell, who has brought a squad of 24 with all players expected to get a game.

"Fitness is the most important thing and it might be that the fittest get the most minutes.

"It's exciting to be playing River Plate and French champions Lyon. Where else would we get the opportunity to do that?"

The tournament is run by the Sun Moon Peace Football Foundation and was won by Tottenham Hotspur two years ago.

The winner gets two million dollars.