Ancelotti: “Real Madrid won’t go to the Club World Cup. FIFA will forget it”
"Just one Real Madrid match is worth 20 million and FIFA wants to give it to us for the entire competition. Like us, other clubs will refuse the invitation"
ROME – “Fifa forgets it”. Carlo Ancelotti says that no, Real Madrid, fresh winner of the fifteenth Champions League, “will not go to the Club World Cup. A single Real match is worth 20 million and FIFA wants to give us that amount for the entire competition. Like us, other clubs will refuse the invitation”.
Ancelotti does nothing but confirm the difficulties that FIFA is facing in organizing the tournament in 2025. In reality there is a concrete possibility that the first edition of the event will be postponed by two years, to 2027. There is no agreement with the most prestigious clubs, Real Madrid but also Manchester City and Bayern Munich.
It’s about establishing scales. Ad example, for winning the last Champions League, Real Madrid earned a total of 140 million euros, for 13 matches. 10.7 million euros per match.
But for the last summer tours in the United States (matches without sporting significance) Real Madrid received 15 million euros for the three matches played against Barcelona (Las Vegas), América (San Francisco) and Juventus (Los Angeles). The previous summer he managed to raise 18.5 million. That the Club World Cup is played in the United States is no small matter. It is there that the strongest investments are made in the world of sport today. According to the latest Forbes study, various US funds and companies currently have 19 billion euros invested in European football, much more than double, for example, that of Middle Eastern countries. It’s simply a matter of paying the right price. And the price at the moment is set by Real Madrid