FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ Fixtures: PSG Redefines Elite Football

PSG from the 2024-2025 season to the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup™ is a phenomenon. It is the strongest team in the world, but they are very different from many of the strong teams that have dominated the world at different times in the modern era.

K AFFIRMING UNMATCHED VALUE

PSG beat Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final. They beat Atletico Madrid 4-0 in their opening match of the FIFA Club World Cup, and beat Real Madrid 4-0 to reach the final of this tournament. It's as if those were the scores between teams of two different levels. For a simple and timeless reason, people have not yet affirmed that the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ will belong to PSG. That reason is that anything can happen in football. Chelsea are PSG's opponents in the FIFA Club World Cup final at 2:00 on July 14. With all due respect to Chelsea, beating PSG in the upcoming match must still be compared to an impossible mission. On the way to winning the 2025 Champions League, PSG have defeated all 4 English representatives in that tournament: Man.City, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Arsenal.

Dream Final

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Let's recall the four most typical representatives of the Premier League - the richest national championship in the world . In addition, there are Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, including the two Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup. Since January 2025, PSG has been absolutely winning against all strong opponents, from all different schools of football. In terms of scores, as mentioned, there have been many very big matches and PSG did not concede a goal. On the way to the final of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™, PSG kept their net intact in 5/6 matches (they only conceded 1 goal in the remaining match). Everyone knows how determined superstar Kylian Mbappe is to "take revenge" when he first wears Real's shirt, meeting PSG again as an opponent. Everyone knows the value and influence of Lionel Messi when he wears Inter Miami's shirt as the host of the FIFA Club World Cup. But all of it has become meaningless. Their teams both lost 0-4 to PSG quickly. Inter Miami lost 0-4 in the first half, Real was down 0-3 in just 24 minutes!

PSG has no superstars but still dominates the football world

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K IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL STRONG TEAMS

The modern football era dates back to 1995, when the "Bosman ruling" came into effect, allowing rich teams to freely shop for stars. Many different strong teams have dominated the world in this era, with the common feature being that each team must have a few superstars or groups of top stars. People praise coach Pep Guardiola as well as Barcelona's famous Tiki-taka style of play. But if you remove Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar from the squad, what would Barcelona have left? Liverpool in the "heavy metal" era of coach Juergen Klopp had the trio of strikers Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane. Real Madrid had Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale. Man.City had Erling Haaland, Kevin de Bruyne, Rodri. These are all monuments that made the brand of their super club. Not to mention a myriad of other famous stars, such as Luka Modric, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham...

PSG is different when they don't have any superstars! In the modern football era, no club has ever reached the level of world domination with a force without superstars, like PSG now. In fact, PSG themselves advocated letting go, saying goodbye to superstars like Messi, Neymar, Mbappe, one by one, to achieve the great strength they have today. When those superstars were still around, PSG had nothing, except the position of dominating the domestic league Ligue 1. They did not lack money to buy stars. But President Nasser El-Khelaifi, Sports Director Luis Campos and Head Coach Luis Enrique advocated building a young, even and harmonious force.

PSG’s entire value lies in the beautiful passing and fierce tackling of the midfield; the speed and productivity of the wingers; the balance and cohesion between the positions in the squad. In short, it’s all about the style of play, the way of playing, not about any specific names. Apart from Mbappe (who has left), Vitinha is the only PSG player to have appeared in the list of 90 candidates for the Ballon d’Or award in the last 3 years. It’s as if Coach Enrique and PSG are redefining what a strong team in top-flight football is.

The final match between PSG and Chelsea takes place at 2:00 a.m. on July 14, live on FPT Play.

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