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11:59 a. M.
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Books – Muhammad Hammam:
The name of the sixth team to qualify for the Club World Cup was officially determined by the Mexican team, Tigres Unal, who reserved a seat in the tournament by crowning CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean) as a result of their two-goal victory over Los Angeles FC, United States champion.
Who Qualified?
The number of teams that have been promoted so far is six, and they are Bayern Munich as champions of the European Champions League, Al-Ahly representing Africa, Ulsan Hyundai is Asian champions, Auckland City is champions. from the Oceania region and Al-Duhail from Qatar as league champions.
The new version of the Club World Cup will be played on February 1 until February 11 in Qatar, which was previously organized by this tournament in the 2019 edition, which was crowned by Liverpool at the expense of Flamengo, with a goal unanswered.
Final card:
After six teams have guaranteed access to the Club World Cup, there will only be one seat left to complete the ribs of the participating teams, and here the only seat awaits the representative of South America, specifically the Copa Libertadores champion.
The tournament is coming to an end, with the fourth team remaining to reach the semi-final, where Boca Junior of Argentina will face fellow Racing in the second leg of the quarter-finals.
Racing stood out in the first leg by winning an unanswered goal, to need the result of a draw at least to cross the golden box, on the other hand, Boca will only have to win by two goals if it wants to cross the penultimate station.
Three teams booked their place in the semifinals through the classification of the Brazilian duo Santos and Palmeiras, and the Argentine team River Plate.
The Copa Libertadores semifinal draw will witness a clash between Palmeiras and Riverbelt, while Sanuts will be waiting for the finalists to face Boca and Racing.
The semifinal stage will be played in the local and away system, and the final match will be played on January 30 of next year from a tiebreaker match at the “Maracana” stadium in the Brazilian capital, Rio de Janeiro.
Opening match:
The opening match of the new version of the FIFA Club World Cup will be played as usual between the organizing team of the tournament, and here we talk about the Qatari league champion, Al-Duhail, against the champion of Oceania, specifically the Auckland City, New Zealand team.
The Auckland City team, representing the Oceania region, qualified by selection after the championship was canceled due to the emerging corona virus (Covid 19), as the New Zealand champion has the highest participation in the world event nine times before.
Al-Ahly is waiting:
Al-Ahly will be waiting for the draw to find out which team will face the quarterfinals, but as usual in the World Cup, the African champion has three ways: face the winner of the match Al Duhail and Auckland City or face the Mexican champion Tigres Unal , and the third team will face the Asian champion, Ulsan Hyundai.
Al-Ahly’s participation is the sixth in the Club World Cup, where he previously played against the African champion in the years: (2005-2006-2008-2012-2013).
And the best version for Al-Ahly was (2006) when they got third place after beating Auckland City with two unanswered goals and then Club América with a score (2-1) in the match for third and fourth place. .
Al-Ahly lost in the semifinals of this edition to the Brazilian International champion, with two goals to one.
Al-Ahly had previously faced the Asian champions in the quarter-finals, specifically in the 2005 version, before losing to Al-Ittihad Jeddah with an unanswered goal, and then losing at Sydney FC Australia with two goals against a goal, to get the fifth place.
The 2008 edition saw Al-Ahly leave the competition early, the product of the defeat of Mexican Pachuca, represented by the CONCACAF championship, with four goals to two, before also losing to Australian champion Adelaide United with an unanswered goal. , so that the Egyptian representative took fifth place.
The 2012 edition, held in Japan, witnessed Al-Ahly’s victory over organized team Sanfres Hiroshima with two goals to one goal in the quarterfinals, and then the defeat of Brazil’s Corinthians Paulista with one unanswered. before losing in the match to determine Monterrey Al-Maski’s third and fourth place with two unanswered goals.
The last version of Al-Ahly in terms of participation was in 2013, and here the red team faced the Chinese champion, Guangzhou Evergrande, to lose two unanswered goals before and then lose to Monterrey, Mexico, with five goals per goal in a version disputed in Morocco.
