Real Madrid will face Seattle Sounders, Al Ahly or Auckland City in the Club World Cup semi-finals.

White team ‘will not recognize its opponent in the semi-finals’MundialitoUntil February 4, when the second round matches will be played. For a spot in the tournament final, their rivals will win the match between the American Seattle Sounders and the duel between Al Ahly and Auckland City. The second will be the opening match on February 1.

Egypt’s Al Ahly is the strongest team in African football history with its match record (18) in the FIFA Club World Cup. 10 Champions League. Two years ago, they finished the tournament in third place, beating Palmeiras on penalties in the third and fourth place match.

The Africans will face New Zealand’s Auckland City in the first round. 10-time Oceania champion. In the last edition of the Continental championships, they beat Venus from French Polynesia (3-0) in the final. It will be his tenth appearance in ‘Mundialito’ with third place as the best result in 2014.

Real Madrid’s third and last possible opponent in the semi-finals on February 8 will be the Seattle Sounders. CONCACAF champion and the first American team to play in the Club World Cup. The Americans will enter directly into the game in the second round.

This will be the other side of the bond Wydad Casablanca-Al Hilal. The Moroccans beat the aforementioned Al Ahly in the final edition of the African Champions League, a competition they won three times (1992, 2017 and 2022), but their home status allowed the runners-up Egyptians to also participate. tournament. The Saudi team, on the other hand, will participate as the champions of the 2021 Asian Champions League, as this year’s champion has not yet been determined.

The winner of this match will face each other. flamenco In the other semi-finals, the Brazilian champion of the Libertadores. Carioca group, Arturo Vidal, David Luiz, Filipe Luis or ‘Gabigol’ In his roster, he is the strongest opponent Real Madrid can face. They fell in the final (0-1) against Liverpool in the 2019 ‘Mundialito’. He previously played in the Intercontinental Cup in 1981, beating the ‘reds’ 3-0 in Japan.

“This edition of the Clubs World Cup will be very important, we will know who is the best club in the world. champion of champions. Congratulations to all the teams that qualified by winning the Champions League, they will be the best in the world. “In just 19 days, this will be the center of the football world,” said FIFA president Gianni Infantino.