Aleksander Ceferin’s no-show speaks volumes: Why the UEFA president snubbed the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup

Aleksander Ceferin’s no-show speaks volumes: Why the UEFA president snubbed the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup

As fireworks erupted over New York and cameras flashed across a star-studded final between Chelsea and PSG, one seat remained conspicuously empty. Despite his high-ranking status in global soccer, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was nowhere to be seen at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, a move that did not go unnoticed and has only intensified speculation over…

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Does Club World Cup title make Chelsea ‘undisputed champions of the world’? Even its captain doesn’t seem to think so

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The winners walked onstage past a trophy designed to represent “the pinnacle of global club football.” They shook hands with the most powerful man in sports, then the most powerful man in the world. They partied beneath fireworks and flames, amid golden sparks and blue smoke. They, Chelsea, were “winners of…

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Despite endless complaints, Chelsea’s talent endured at Club World Cup, and Europe will win it

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — To Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca, the “environment” in Atlanta was “strange.” Training was “impossible” in the Philadelphia heat. Weather delays in Charlotte and elsewhere were “a joke.” The United States in general, he said, was “probably not the right place to do this competition.” He complained and complained throughout this Club…

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