The 2023 Club World Cup final has come to an end, with Premier League team - Champions League champion Manchester City beating the Copa Libertadores champion - Brazilian team Fluminense 4-0 to win the title, and Guardiola has added another major honor to his "championship book".
To be honest, the score of 4-0 is indeed a bit disparity, you must know that in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, Manchester City won the AFC Champions League champion Japanese team Urawa Red Diamonds is only 3-0, of course, Manchester City does have the factor of "preserving strength" in the semi-finals. However, the Copa Libertadores is basically not competitive in the face of the Champions League title, which is already a cruel reality.
Thinking back to the predecessor of the Club World Cup - the Toyota Cup, even AC Milan, which was almost invincible in Europe, had nothing to do when it met the Brazilian team Sao Paulo, and finally lost. It is also a microcosm of the Toyota Cup - the competition between the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores is a chess rival.
And now?The number of participating teams in the Club World Cup, which was born out of the Toyota Cup, has increased, but whether it is the African champion, the Asian champion, the Central and North American champion, or the host team, there is almost no competition against South American teams and European teams, and even the Saudi Arabian team, which has bought big-name players this season, is still defeated against the African champion.
In fact, some clues can be seen from the transfer of players in international football today, thinking that at the beginning, most European teams introduced players who had already played famous in South America;Now, some of the players are already scheduled for the European Cup as soon as they make their mark. For example, Alvarez, who scored two goals against Fluminense, is already wearing the Manchester City shirt at a young age.
Today, South American football has been completely reduced to a "star processing factory" for European teams.
Today, the strength and competitiveness of European clubs are really a lonely existence. To say that the "purchasing power" of the Saudi league is indeed amazing, and it does recruit a group of top players in the top five European leagues, but the overall level of the Saudi team is still insufficient, after all, Saudi clubs cannot all be composed of foreign aid.
Rome was not built in a day, nor was the glory of the European club achieved in a day;The reason why European clubs are getting stronger and stronger is entirely due to the persistent professional development and the professional management of European clubs, which have a perfect youth training system and corporatized management ......
Finally, I want to say that the Club World Cup will be expanded, is it going to be a second World Cup?It can only be said that FIFA is really "insatiable".
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