He Real Madrid has issued a statement responding to Carlo Ancelotti’s words regarding the Club World Cup, in which he assured that the white club would not participate under the conditions currently presented to it. “At no time has his participation in the new Club World Cup been questioned that will be organized by FIFA in the next 2024/2025 season.
Therefore, our club will compete, as planned, in this official competition that we face with pride and with the utmost enthusiasm to make our millions of fans around the world dream again with a new title.“.
“FIFA can be forgotten. The players and clubs will not go to that tournament. A single Real Madrid match is worth 20 million and FIFA wants to give us that amount for the entire cup. So the answer is negative,” the Madrid coach defended this Monday in an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘Il Gornale’, who assured that the current European champion will not be the only one who “will decline the invitation” of the organization headed by Gianni Infantino.
It took just a few hours for Madrid to react, denying their coach. They maintain from the white club that, although the willingness to participate in the new event that will take place in 2025, between June 15 to July 13, is maintained, there is still a need “meetings with all parties” and there is still time “to organize everything how events of this magnitude should be organized”since there is still a lot of work to do.
Ancelotti rectification
It is worth remembering that next season the Intercontinental Cup will coexist on the calendar, recovering with the annual format of the previous one. Club World Cup, and the renewed version of it, with 32 teams, and which will be held every four years. The other Spanish representative in the tournament will be Atlético de Madrid, who did celebrate leaving out FC Barcelona due to the amount they could win in the US, where the title will be played.
The 2024/2025 season for Real Madrid, which has just brought in Kylian Mbappé, is presented as the most demanding in its history. If you reach the final of all seven competitions that will be played – League, Cup, Champions, Club World Cup, Intercontinental and the Spanish and European Super Cups – will reach 70 games.
Ancelotti himself subsequently backtracked on his X account, just a few minutes after Real Madrid’s statement, ensuring that his “words about the FIFA Club World Cup have not been interpreted in the way I intended. Nothing could be further from my interest than rejecting the possibility of playing a tournament which I consider could be a great opportunity to continue fighting for big titles with Real Madrid.”
2024-06-10 14:53:49
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