Football Daily | Club World Cup serves up wet towels and a mismatch in quest for ‘eternal glory’

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Set to the theme of “A New Era Begins”, the opening ceremony of the Club World Cup featured performances by assorted Fifa-approved rappers and crossover artists we’d never heard of before. As a daily email of a certain age our knowledge of the Miami music scene begins and ends with the 80s legend that is Gloria “Paging Dr Beat!” Estefan, whose husband produced this spectacular track but apparently couldn’t find a place for her in it. Boo! Billed as “a vibrant prelude to a competition where one champion will rise to claim one goal, one dream and eternal glory”, Gianni Infantino had probably hoped the match that followed wouldn’t end without any goals but as stalemates go the opener between Al Ahly and Inter Miami could have been worse.Football, the game that we all love, we have it here because of immigrants. It’s played the way it is because of immigrants. This club that is such a huge part of me wouldn’t be here without immigrants” – Angel City captain Ali Riley explains why her team wore shirts that proclaimed themselves “Immigrant City Football Club” amid protests in LA over Donald Trump’s immigration policies.Re: Friday’s Memory Lane (full email edition). When I was a student at Loughborough in the late 1980s I went along one afternoon to watch the first team play Leicester City (at the time struggling in the First Division under David Pleat, plus ça change). We were used to local Midlands clubs sending along reserve teams with perhaps two or three first-teamers playing to gain fitness. After 20 minutes or so with the students 2-0 up and giving Leicester a good run around I turned to a Leicester-supporting friend and asked how many first-team players were playing: with a forlorn look he replied ‘this is the first team’ – Brendan Mackinney.Re: Bayern 10-0 Auckland City. Maybe the A-League, which contains a proper professional Auckland FC in contrast to part-time Auckland City, should be moved from Asia to Oceania as far as Copa Gianni is concerned” – Jim Geissman. Continue reading...

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