The winner of a qualified, in a single match, between the American Los Angeles FC and America of Mexico will occupy the Plaza del Club León in the 2025 Club World Cup, as announced today FIFA.
Shortly before the Sports Arbitration Court (TAS) of Lausana published its resolution in which it refused appeals shown by Clubs in Mexico León and Pachuca and the Costa Rican Alajuenese Sports League Before the decision adopted by FIFA.
Why not include a lion?
FIFA, by its appeal commission, was announced in March that Pachuca and León. He decided to exclude the lion from the competition.
Clubs in Mexico appealed to the decision in front of the bag, while Alajuele criticized the multiprophity first against the FIFA and then before claiming that he deserved to be in the World Cup for being a non -mexican or American club best found in the Rank of the ConcAF Club.
According to Alajuenese, Mexico and the United States already have a team quota (2) to those who are right in the World Cup.
A unique match to decide the replacement
But, after resolving the bag, the FIFA announced that Los Angeles FC and America from Mexico The vacancy left by the lion will release a single party.
Los Angeles FC was selected because he was the rival who lost the final Champions Cup (former Champions League) of ConcaF in 2023 against the Lion for a global 3-1: 2-1 in Mexico and 0-1 in the US in its rankings featuring the existence of Catalan side Sergi Palencia (former Barcelona and Leganés) and two French veterans: the goal Hugo Lloris and the striker Olivier Giroud
For its part, Mexico America is the best classified team in the rank of Concacaf. Account with its template along with Asturian medium Álvaro fidalgo and the Medium of Mexico Jonathan Dos Santos (Ex Barcelona and Villarreal).
The winner, in the Chelsea Group
The winner will be framing Group D, where the lion is after the raffle made by FIFA on December 5, Next to Chelsea (England), Flamyngo (Brazil) and Esperance (Tunisia).
The Club World Cup will be held in the United States from June 14 to July 13, 2025. Among the 32 participants were the Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid.
The eight World Cup groups
Group A: Palmeiras (Brazil), Porto (Portugal), Al Ahly (Egypt), Inter Miami (USA)
Group b: PSG (France), Atlético (Spain), BOTAFOGO (Brazil), Seattle Sounders (USA)
Group C: Bayern Munich (Germany), Auckland City (New Zealand), Boca Juniors (Argentina), Benfica (Portugal)
Group D: Chelsea (England), Flamygo (Brazil), Esperance (Tunisia) and Los Angeles FC (USA) or America (Mexico)
Group E: River Plate (Argentina), Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan), Monterrey (Mexico), Inter Milan (Italy)
Group F: Fruinise (Brazil), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Uksan HD (South Korea), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
Group G: Manchester City (England), Wydad AC (Morocco), Al Ain (Arab Emirates), Juventus (Italy)
Group H: Real Madrid (Spain), Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Pachuca (Mexico), RB Salzburg (Austria)
The first two in each group will be classified for 16.
Source: La Verdad
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