Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich eased past Asian champion Guangzhou Evergrande 3-0 in the Club World Cup semifinal on Tuesday, setting up the reigning European champion for afinal showdown with either Atletico Mineiro, the South American champion, or Raja Casablanca, the African champion, who square off in the other semifinal on Wednesday. Goals fromFranck Ribery, Mario […]
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Chelsea 'Outmuscled' in Club World Cup Defeat
For the first time since 2006, the FIFA Club World Cup trophy has not gone to a European club, as Chelsea FC lost to Sao Paulo-based Corinthians 1-0 in Yokohama on Saturday. TheIndependent says that Chelsea was “outmuscled” by the Brazilian club, which played more like a Premier League team, and became only the second […]
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Monterrey Confident Ahead of Chelsea Semifinal Clash
Monterrey coach Victor Vucetich believes a win over Chelsea FC in tomorrow’s FIFA Club World Cup semifinal would be the greatest ever win for a Mexican club, but he admitshis team will struggle to keep European champion from scoring. Chelsea has scored nine goals in its last two games following a difficult start for interim […]
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Torres Hungry for Club World Cup Success
Chelsea FC striker Fernando Torres, who has won a World Cup, two European Championships and the UEFA Champions League, is eager to add the Club World Cup to his trophy cabinet. The28-year-old believes the competition to be just as valuable as the gold medal he collected when Spain won the World Cup in South Africa […]
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Europe's Unimpressive Club World Championship Record
Over the last 20 years, European clubs are 13-7 in the Club World Cup final and its former incarnation, the Inter-Continental Cup, against South American opposition. As the Independent’sSam Wallace points out, that is hardly a dominating statistic, which is surprising given Europe’s financial dominance of the sport. Of the seven South American teamsthat have […]
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Chelsea's Mikel Banned Three Games for Clattenburg Incident
The English FA has given Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel a three-game ban for confronting referee Mark Clattenburg after the infamous Premier League clash betweenManchester United and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on October 28. Mikel admitted to “using threatening and/or abusive and/or insulting words and/or behavior” toward the referee following the 3-2defeat, but said he only confronted […]
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Barcelona magic for the holidays
[VIDEO PICK] You’ll rarely find four goals as sublime as the four Barcelona scored to beat Santos of Brazil 4-0 in Sunday’s final of the annual Club World Cupin Yokohama. For a look at the show Lionel Messi, Xavi and Company put on …
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Asian clubs sweep quarterfinals
[CLUB WORLD CUP] Mexico’s troubles at the Club World Cup continued as 2011 Concacaf champion Monterrey fell to Kashiwa Reysol of Japan in a shootout. Tunisia’sEsperance had the better of play against Qatar’s Al-Sadd, but the Qatari club won, 2-1, to give the Asian clubs a sweep of Sunday’s quarterfinals in Toyota, Japan. Kashiwa, who […]
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“It’s an opportunity to stamp Real Salt Lake’s presence on the entire world of soccer, and I don’t think anybody could have imagined that five years ago, three years ago, oreven two years ago.” — Real Salt Lake majority owner Dave Checketts on the Concacaf Champions League final that begins for RSL Wednesday atMonterrey. A […]
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Huge step forward for African soccer
African national teams are respected worldwide while underfunded African club soccer lags far behind the club scene in the rest of the world. But Congolese club TB Mazembe has accomplished what noAfrican national team has been able to do in the World Cup. It not only reached the semifinals of the FIFA Club World Cup […]