Very bad night for both Asian clubs

Club World Cup 2020 (2021), round 2, night 1, match 1:

Tigres - Ulsan Hyndai 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 24 (23.51) Kim Kee-hee 

               1:1 37 (37.13) Andre-Pierre Gignac

               2:1 45+4-pen (49.12) Andre-Pierre Gignac

Stoppage time for both halves: 4.29 and 4.55.

Club World Cup 2020 (2021), round 2, night 1, match 2:

Al-Duhail - Al Ahly 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 30 (29.41) Hussein el Shahat

Stoppage time for both halves: 1.15 and 6.04.

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Joint World Cup countries waits for hospitality cities to be announced

After the World Cup at 2022, next in line to welcome the best teams of the globe is the North American continent in five years from now. For the first time three countries will host it: Canada, United States of America and Mexico, and increased number of participating nations as well - 48.

Twenty three towns have expressed their desire to host them, where only 16 will succeed it at the end to be chosen. Journey around all of them is going to begin in July together with the stadia where the twenty third edition will be played. Final decision on that of who is going to be written in the closing list can be expected towards the completion of 2021 according to the plan of the world football organization from 26 January.

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Perfect team voted by fans, part two

After announcing best clubs from divisional parts of the continent, individual footballers for each positions, at the end was the question of who were the best overall in 2020 so that they could fit in one team. Thus seven days ago the Asian football confederation has released 11 names voted by spectators on their website.

Of course, every player comes from the Champions league of the continent, while six of them are from the famous club of Islamic Republic of Iran Persepolis that produced amazing games by reaching the final of the 2020 edition. The formation of the team is 4-3-3, and inside are: Hamed Lak (Persepolis) - Sultan al Ghannam (Al-Nassr), Hossein Kanaanizadegan, Shoja' Khalilzadeh, Saeid Aghaei - Bashar Resan (all 4 from Persepolis), Teruhito Nakagawa, Takuya Kida (both teammates at Yokohama F Marinos) - Mehdi Abdi Qara (Persepolis), Abderrazak Hamdallah (Al-Nassr), Gleidionor Figueiredo Pinto junior (known as Junior Negrao, Ulsan Hyundai).

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News about an intercontinental club tournament

From this Thursday night the attention of this sport is going to be focused at Qatar, as the first official club intercontinental competition is going to kick off in 2021. Since 19 January (when it was the draw for the second round), three main things have happened about the Club World Cup event. Here will be written all those with few sentences.

On 23 January the organizers of the tournament has decided to let spectators into stadia. In two of them (which are situated in Al Rayyan) people may enter and fill it of up to 30 percent on its capacity. Because epidemiological rules are going to be very strict, those international fans upon arrival in the country have to give papers to authorities that they are not infected with the virus, although will be tested again at the airport.

Couple of days later came Ooredoo. The telecommunications company is going to be a proud sponsor at the edition number 17 on an event that is happening right in its own nation.

And finally, today was disclosed the last piece of the puzzle when the 138 players have been revealed to the public. Unfortunately, not all are going to participate on the field, but surely it is a great feeling to be a part of a tournament of whom (soon) will be completely destroyed. Each of the six clubs had to report 23 names, where can be seen or even download for personal use at the website of the world football organization.

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First five clubs ready to be introduced

On the thirty fifth night in 2021 will kick off the first official inter-continental club tournament. Switched to this year because of the well known health problem, Qatar is going to host the seventeenth edition of the Club World Cup event where we will see six clubs (instead of seven).

In the first full week of the new month five of them are going to appear. Divided further, four are already title winners at their own confederation from the Champions league: North American, Asian and African representatives together with the South American club (which is going to play in the tournament on the weekend) plus the winner of the home championship. All these are going to complete four duels in three phases over two nights.

Second round:

Thursday, 04 February at 15.00 CET: Tigres (Mexico) - Ulsan Hyundai (South Korea).

Thursday, 04 February at 18.30 CET: Al-Duhail (Qatar) - Al Ahly (Egypt).

Classification game for fifth / sixth place:

Sunday, 07 February at 16.00 CET: clubs which lost at the second phase.

Semifinal 1:

Sunday, 07 February at 19.00 CET: Palmeiras (Brazil) - winner from the first match of the second stage.

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