Article by Mihai Mironică – published on Thursday, June 19, 2025, 09:43 / Updated Thursday, June 19, 2025 09:43
The first stage of the club World Cup was completed. I saw an impressive PSG, the two superforce of the disappointing Madrid, Premier League represented Solid, the South American phalanx maintaining a high level and, above all, an Arab team that made a historical result in the company of the Supreme Aristocrats.
Al Hilal showed, with the worthy equal in front of Madrid, that it has a sporty sense this clash of the worlds proposed at the club world. As well as Monterrey with his equal in front of the finalist Champions League, Inter.
As for Fluminense, she also obtained the appreciation of the opponents at Borussia Dortmund, who admitted that they had escaped that equal, after, 90 minutes, the most team in Europe of the season ended only a tired shot on the Fabio Matusalemic Gate, the 44 -year -old Goalkeeper.
The project initiated by FIFA was attacked mainly from the prism of the successful Bayern's crushing score in front of Auckland City, 10-0. Only Bayern has this habit, to produce disasters even in the most select contexts.
In the most rarefied space in world football, in the Champions League, Bayern terrorized Dinamo Zagreb with 9 goals, and Barcelona produced a trauma that has spread for several years with those 8 goals she scored on the night of Halloween of Catalan football.
However, it seems to me noble to have at the table of a World Cup all the corners of the world, even the least developed. After all, the first appearances of Africa, for example, at the World Cup were a sublime ridiculous. But football has developed there and we see how Morocco reaches the world semifinals, and Senegal just overcomes the mother of football, England.
Kovacs, take the microphone with you!
I find it to be appreciated and the attempt to conquer even more from this extraordinary market that is America. “Rose Bowl” looked fabulous with the 80,000 people who came to see the show made by Luis Enrique's formidable machine, PSG.
Exceptional and the moment when Istvan Kovacs explained to the spectators in the Pasadena arena and to all the corners of the world why he dictated a penalty. How much I would like to see something like this on our stadiums. Let us break from this law of silence that envelops the arbitration that seems like a Vatican away from the public's eyes.
Beyond its imperfections, the World Cup of Club comes with this fascinating confrontation between Europe and America, especially the Latin. Palmeiras-Porto, Boca Juniors-Benfice, Inter-Monterrey, Fluminense-Borussia Dortmund were posters that I always wanted.
I had the intercontinental cup, but now the World Cup comes with a contigger of 10 teams across the ocean against 12 clubs on the old continent. It seems like the World Clubs proposes an answer to the burlesca question of the former night television, who would have won if the Dacians had fought with the cowboys?
In addition, it is interesting to see what the level in Africa and Asia is and to discover, in the Miami Pestrita universe, that Salem Al Dawsari can rise to Vinicius's height.
Money, but also more than that
All football innovations had to face a degree of reluctance. I said that UEFA invented for the poor as new lender League, but the huge Mourinho tattooed his trophy when he conquered. Mihai Stoichiță asked publicly “What helps me Nations League?”, But the unrepeatable Cristiano cried when he conquered the trophy.
Everyone wants to be at the World Cup criticized by everyone. Barcelona contacted FIFA to take Leon excluding. And be not anyway, but as best. That is why Madrid, who could have Alexander-Arnold next month, paid for Liverpool 10 million euros to be able to lead to English to fight in America.
Where the battle is terrible for a slice as Baban as possible in the billion played by FIFA. But it's not just about money. Chelsea, PSG, Manchester City, Al Hilal are clubs with some inexhaustible resources. It is also about the most stubborn, coveted two football words, from sports: world champion.
