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The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup (Club World Cup) has begun, which is the 20th edition of the Club World Cup, organized by AsiaSaudi ArabiaThis is also the first time that Saudi Arabia has hosted the Club World Cup, and the venue of the competition is located in Jeddah, the largest port and the second largest city.
1. Manchester City
Champions League winners Manchester City from England are the most likely team to win the tournament, having won 15 of the previous 19 Club World Cups in Europe, four in South America, and the last 10 have all been won by European teams.
Manchester City are the quadruple winners of the 2022-23 season: Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Premier League and FA Cup, and will be crowned if they do so in their first FIFA Club World CupFive-time champion。Manchester City's quality and reputation are very high, so we won't go into the details and leave the main space for the other six teams.
2. Fluminense
Brazil was once a Portuguese colony, so many clubs are named in Portuguese, and Fluminense FC, the winner of the 2023 Copa Libertadores, is a typical case of this. Fluminense is a regional inhabitant predicate used to refer toA native of Rio de Janeiro, a combination of a river (flūmin-) and a resident (-ense).
Why are the "river dwellers" Rio de Janeiro?Because Rio de Janeiro means"January River"., Rio means river, which is equivalent to river in English, and janeiro is the Portuguese word for "January", which is equivalent to january in English.
Ling Jiefang, a famous writer on historical themes in China, has the pen name "February River", which means "the Yellow River in February (ice thawing)";Why is it called the "January River"?On January 1, 1502, Portuguese explorers came to the bay near Rio de Janeiro (present-day Guanabara Bay) and called it the "Ria de Janeiro".
Fluminense has around 8.32 million supporters, mainly the middle or upper class with higher incomes, and their local derby rivals Flamengo are considered the "people's team" and are more popular in Brazil, with more than 50 million supporters spread across the country, and the match between the two teams is called"Fla-Flu Derby".
Fluminense have won four of Brazil's top flights, but this year is their first Copa Libertadores title and therefore their first Club World Cup.
Fluminense's home stadium is now around 7The 90,000-seat Maracanã Stadium has hosted two World Cup winners, in 1950 and 2014, but neither time did it host Brazil, but Uruguay and Germany.
3. Leon
The United Mexican States' León have won Mexico's top football league eight times, but this year they won the CONCACAF Champions League for the first time, so they are also playing in the Club World Cup for the first time, and will be the last team to participate in the Club World Cup as the winner of the CONCACAF Champions League, as the competition will be changed next yearCONCACAF Champions Cup(Concacaf Champions Cup), the number of participating teams will also be expanded from 16 to 27.
The city of León, where León is located, is the fourth largest city in Mexico, with a population of about 1.6 million people in 2020, and its characteristic industry is leather processing, hence the nickname of the León people because of the tendency of leather to dye the workers' bodies green during the tanning process"Panzas verdes"., and then León Football Club also uses green as the main symbol color. Another theory is that the vegetable vendors near the train station of León had their hands dyed green with chlorophyll after processing the vegetables, so they used their aprons to do a simple cleanup, so that their bellies were all green.
León's home stadium is about 3The 10,000-seat Stade de León, which hosted the 1970 and 1986 World Cups.
Fourth, Urawa Red Diamond
León's first match in the Club World Cup was against Japan's Urawa Red Diamonds, the champions of the 2022 AFC Champions League season, who are participating in the Club World Cup for the third time.
Because the AFC Champions League has changed the game time, the 2022 season will be directly followed by the 2023-24 season, and there will be no separate 2023 season, which also means that among the four Asian teams participating in the 2025 Club World Cup in the United States, in addition to Urawa Red Diamonds, Riyadh Crescent (2021 AFC Champions League champion) and the new AFC Champions League champion produced half a year later, there will also be a basisOverall scoresThe resulting team, who will it be?
Urawa Red Diamond, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is located in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, in the northern part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, one of Japan's eight inland prefectures with no coastline.
Urawa Red Diamond nickname"Oriental Red Devils"., one of the 10 founding members of the J-League (1993 season), their home stadium is Saitama 2002 Stadium, which was involved in hosting the World Cup, with a capacity of about 620,000 people.
5. Jeddah United
Because the Club World Cup is hosted by Saudi Arabia in Asia, Saudi Arabia's 2022-23 champions Jeddah United have also qualified, and this is their second participation, the first being as AFC Champions League winners in 2005.
Jeddah United shares the 20,000-seat Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City Stadium with local derby rivals Jeddah Nationals, and moves to the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium for major matches, which has a capacity of more than 60,000 people.
King AbdullahHe was the sixth king of Saudi Arabia (2005-2015) and played a prominent role in the construction of Jeddah's cityPrince Abdullah Al-FaisalHe is the eldest son of King Abdullah's third brother, King Faisal, and his nephew.
All matches in this edition of the Club World Cup will be played at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City Stadium and the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, with the latter hosting the final.
6. Cairo nationals
Egypt's Cairo nationals are the most successful team in African history, having won the AFC Champions League 11 times and are playing in the Club World Cup for the ninth time this year.
With a population of more than 20 million in the Greater Cairo area, Cairo Nationals has used a number of stadiums for home games this season, including the Bog Al Arab Stadium, Al Salam Stadium, Cairo International Stadium and Arab Contractor Stadium to better serve fans.
The Bog Al Arab Stadium isThe largest stadium in Egypt, with a capacity of about 860,000 people, it is also one of the home stadiums of the Egyptian national team, but it is no longer in Cairo, but in the city of Bog Al Arabia, located in Alexandria province. Borg means "tower", and Al is the article, which is equivalent to the English word "the", so Borg Al Arabic is "Tower of Arabia".
With a capacity of about 30,000 people, Al Salam means "peace" in Arabic and is often used as a greeting.
Cairo International Stadium is a shared home stadium between Cairo Nationals, Egypt's No. 1 giant, and Zamalek, the No. 2 giant, with a capacity of about 750,000 people, Zamalek takes its name from Cairo's affluent Zamalek neighborhood.
The Arab Contractors Stadium is the home stadium shared by Cairo Nationals and local derby rivals, Arab Contractors, with a capacity of about 350,000 people. Liverpool'sSalahand Arsenal'sElnenyAll debuted with Arab contractors and then transferred to the top five leagues via Basel, Switzerland.
7. Oakland City
New Zealand's Auckland City is participating in the Club World Cup for the 11th time and the most in the world, and no one can beat it, mainly because after Australia joined the AFC, Auckland City, the strongest team in the New Zealand league, has become the "little overlord" of Oceania, and few teams can compete with it.
Coincidentally, Auckland City has a Chinese foreign playerZhou Tong, the character with the same name as him in "Water Margin" is also called "Little Overlord".
Incredibly, Auckland City's best result in the Club World Cup, which is not very valuable, was actually the third place in the 2014 (the third place was Mexico's Blue Cross), which is better than any team in our country, because only Guangzhou Evergrande has participated in the Club World Cup, and both times (2013 and 2015).
Auckland is New Zealand's largest city, and Auckland City's home stadium is Chiveti Street, which can accommodate thousands of spectators, making it the smallest of the seven Club World Cup teams. Located on the east side of the course, Kiwitea is a Māori word meaning "off-white".
This Club World Cup is the last edition of the Club World Cup with 7 teams, and the next edition of the 2025 Club World Cup hosted by the United States will have 32 teams participating, which also means that there will be no Club World Cup in 2024
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