After watching the incredibly boring final that saw Corinthians beat Chelsea 1-0, I was overcome with the thought that football could do without the FIFA Club World Cup.
There’s no real competition as it’s always the winner of the Champions League versus the winner of the Copa Libertadores, because whoever those two teams happens to be they always have too much quality for the teams who win the other FIFA competitions.
And the winners of the Champions League, as Chelsea proved yesterday, don’t really care, all taking part seems to do is interrupt their season for two weeks, and when they return they find they’ve got two more games squeezed in to an already congested Christmas period.
I also don’t understand why this competition is valued so highly by the South American teams, yes it means you can technically call yourselves the best team in the world, but nobody who knows anything about football thinks Corinthians are the best.
The only reason I could come up with for this competition being of any use is because this year they used it to test goal-line technology, but there wasn’t an incident to test whether the technology worked during a game.
There are many other competitions of this kind like the Community Shield or the UEFA Super Cup, but both those are the openers to the league and European season and are only a one of game, so I see the point of those but as for the FIFA Club World Cup, I still see it as a big waste of time that really isn’t needed.
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