News: 2025 FIFA Club World Cup: General [Multiple Rs]

other thing I wonder is whether the hot ass humid american summer is too much for certain people.

I put up with this shit on the daily and ive played in this weather too so I know how it is, its not for everyone. Playing in nice cool weather is definitely nicer for many reasons

 

A big congrats to Botafogo.

Definitely didn’t see that coming…

 

Porto was shockingly bad.

The Brazilian media having a field day with this one.

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— Lance! (@lancenet) June 19, 2025

 

that's why I was surprised to see the game stopped for a passing cloud in a blue sky

 

Not the best comparison. Nobody is at risk of dying from a snowflake.

 

Clouds with lightning. Anyways.

Who would have imagined that CONMEBOL teams might benefit from playing on this side of the world rather than playing far away in Japan or Arab Nation.

Well, color me shocked!

Hmm, in general playing in the Americas could actually help teams from the Americas while teams traveling from far off continents and time zones may suffer a bit.

Crazy.

 

But at the same time Botafogo x Atleti will be very interesting. Atleti need to win by two goals to stay alive. For all the hoopla around Botafogo, they could still be travelling back to Brazil on Tuesday.

 

With head to head as the main tiebreaker, Botafogo would have to actually lose by 3 goals to get eliminated. They would still make it if they lose by a 2 goal margin.

 

Goal difference is the main tiebreaker though. So, 2 goals would be enough.

 

I am not sure it's helps them since they are still pretty far from home (Botofogo-LA > Paris-LA), but at least the playing field isn't tilted against them like in the other club WC.

 

Well, it's still the group stages. Both Worldcup finalists Argentina (1-2 to Saudi Arabia) and France (0-1 to Tunesia) lost a game in their group stages.

 

It is all relative.
Traveling to the USA is way better than Asia/Africa.

 

I think there are several ways they could improve the quality of teams, but the main one is how the 8 non-CL winners from UEFA are determined, since this has a big impact.
Reaching the last 16 of CL in 2021 shouldn't be a big factor as it is in RB Salzburg's case. I would just simply take the 8 recent champions of the 8 highest-ranked leagues or something like that. 2nd place if that team qualified already as a CL winner.

 

In the old days, Botafogo would already be world champions and planning the parade in Rio. Now they need to master five more games.

In fact, this does remind me a lot of the 2012 Corinthinas win. Scraping by the first opponent and then finding another gear against the European champions.

Speaking of finals, we got a replay of the 2001 final today. Bayern against Boca. And after yesterday, who's to say what will happen...

 

Unfortunately Boca is just a shadow of that team. But I do respect their manager greatly and think he will have them prepared. Might not be enough though, but we shall see.

 

At work until 4.

Have to probably miss everything

 

All I know is that Andres Cantor is going to go bananas if Boca pull off the upset/ get a point.
Even more than when Messi scored yesterday.

 

Not sure I want to start introducing domestic league champions without continental success.

To me that is "skipping" a step and undermines confederation club tournaments. The fact that three-peat Mexican champions Club America are not here (leaving the overall controversial play-in aside) is rather comical. You need to get it done in the CCC. Nowhere else. Like it or not.

I enjoy having lesser European clubs present, but if we have to change something then let's raise the country limit to three. Had that been in place this time we would have gotten the following clubs:

1. Man City (Winner)
2. Real Madrid (Winner)
3. Chelsea (Winner)
4. Bayern
5. PSG
6. Dortmund
7. Inter Milan
8. Liverpool
9. Porto
10. Atleti
11. RB Leipzig
12. Barcelona

Better? Juventus, Benfica, and Salzburg miss out.

Still a Red Bull team in there.

And Porto remains.

 

Maybe there can be more playoff games like the one between LA and America so that teams like Bacelona and Liverpool can get in the dance.

 

But when would you schedule these? And who gets to host?

Not sure adding more games to an already bursting calendar is the way to go.

 

Host it a couple weeks before the tournament.
Lots of these teams played friendlies leading up to this Cup so during that time have Bacelona play the whatever Champions from whatever Country.