He City of Manchester This Friday he was proclaimed champion of Club World Cup after passing Fluminense in a match that made it abundantly clear that the difference in level between European and South American football is enormous. This is not new, because there was no final in the last decade where the champion of Libertadores Cup was imposed on Champions Leaguebut it’s still noticeable.
The accidents of Chelsea in the view of Corinthians in 2012, from Barcelona against International in 2006 and Liverpool in the view of São Paulo in 2005, and it is still significant that in all three cases the match ended 1-0 and with the feeling that the European team deserved better luck than defeat. The gap exists and widens a little with each passing day. A South American team has not been seen superior to a European team in the final for the planetary scepter since Boca Juniorsordered by Juan Roman Riquelmeprevailed real Madrid in the final of the 2000 Intercontinental Cup.
As far as this Friday’s final is concerned, there are those who believed in that Fluminenseholding hands in Fernando Diniz and his commitment to the ‘appositional’ game, he can stand a City of Manchester destroyed by casualties. But it’s not like that. Now here near. Pep Guardiola and his powerful sports car escaped from the flirtatious six hundred Diniz on the first straight of the race to cross the finish line successfully. South American football is very far from European football.
Source: La Verdad
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