FIFA Club World Cup, Atlético Madrid
Digest more
The summer of soccer will take a new look this year with the FIFA Club World Cup, which comes to the U.S. for the first edition of the expanded competition that will see 32 teams from around the world compete for a share of the $1 billion prize purse.
Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, two of the best clubs in the world, are showing their early dominance at the tournament. Meanwhile, some non-European squads, such as Brazilian club Palmeiras and Botafogo, are putting up strong performances to open the group stage.
The Club World Cup has been beset by organisational challenges ahead of the first edition of the revamped 32-team tournament in the U.S.
4don MSN
The Club World Cup is upon us, a tournament rife with such contention and rancor in its build up that it is almost hard to remember that the action itself has not begun. The competition, revamped at the behest of FIFA president Gianni Infantino into a quadrennial carnival with the scale of the World Cup,
Atletico Madrid star Marcos Llorente was suffering in the extreme heat during the FIFA Club World Cup clash against Paris Saint Germain. On Sunday, Atletico and PSG faced off at the Rose Bowl in California as they kicked off their Club World Cup campaign.
2d
Sporting News on MSNPSG vs. Atletico Madrid predicted lineups, team news, score prediction: European kings start Club World Cup bidLuis Enrique meets old foe Diego Simeone when European champions Paris Saint-Germain start their FIFA Club World Cup campaign against Atletico Madrid.