FIFA Club World Cup 2006

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Al Ahly (Egypt) vs America (Mex)
Sunday, December 17,2006 09:20hrs (CET Time)
Stadium: Yokohama International

Match for the third place of the FIFA Club World Cup

Al Ahly
Arrives to this match after beating Auckland City by 0-2 and
lossing against Internacional de Porto Alegre by 1-2.
Taking the third place will be an historic achivement for the
club. The team is physical more power than America as the football
in Africa due to physical proportions are stronger.

The Egyptian tema have played neat but cautios football, will
need to put more focus on attack if they want to make a progress
outside of their continent. The key players for this are striker
Flavio, MF Mohamed Shawky and DF Emad El Nahas.

They put a strong stand against International, and will like to
provide more problems to America, to continue to leave a good
impresion on this tournament. Their strong areas are the physical
aspect and speed (not as fast as the coreans, but with more
speed than America)

America
The team get to this match for the third place after winnin 0-1
to Jeonbuk Motors, and lossing 0-4 to Barcelona, which makes
them one of the worst defenses of the tournament, but is to
consider that they face Barca which make really good goals. For this
match, to rate the defense, I think it is fair, because this two
rivals are of almost of same level.

America make a good impresion when stoping the speed of the
coreans of Jeobunk Motors, but they need to improve after match of
Barcelona, the team will face a more physical team which will
fight to score a goal. the emotional motivation will be key as they
came from a very hard defeat 0-4. The team knows they need to
gave a better image to the world and could fix it a little by
winning the third place.

America has a strong offensive as seen in match against Barca
where they have options to score, but due to bad luck and lack of
accuracy as a good work of Barcelona defend where unable to
score. But the main thing is the midfield where supposly the coach
can field Nelson Cuevas, Cuauthemoc Blanco and young reality Juan
Carlos Mosqueda, which will give more offensive power to the
team as they are offensive players.

Match:
The egyptians will try to gain to their side with the
physical and speed as weapons, stil Ameirca show against Jeobunk
Motors they can sustain that combinations, is up to see if the
added physical can be also handed by the team . GK Guillermo Ochoa
had nothing to do in Barcelona goals, as they where of great
goals. if coach Tena field that midfield the team could have more
ball control and peform better.

Prediction:
America is consider slighlty favorite and more
probable to winning, I am also in tone with this, I think America
will have to bring a good display to clean their image and they are
going to do it. They have players with quality and was just
matter of luck, and good Barca defense, that they didn't score
against Barcelona. So America 3/10

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Internacional de Porto Alegre (Brazil) vs Barcelona (Spain)
Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:20hrs (CET Time)
Stadium: Yokohama International
Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

Match for the first place of the FIFA Club World Cup.

International de Porto Alegre
Get to this match after beating Al Ahly by 1-2 in a match that
was rispid and that the egyptian team was able to draw for a
moment. But the quality of the southamerican team impose and get
the victory to be in this final, this with only 18 minutes left
in the match.

The team says they respects Barcelona, but are not afraid of
them. And that they are currently the best team of the world,
still they can be beaten as the recent problems Barcelona suffer
with Chelsea and Real Madrid. The coach promes a better display of
his team in this match, which will be different as the one
against Al Ahly but that doesn't mean a change in the tactic. Is it
not consider to put double cover with Ronaldinho, still the mark
will be stronger.

The team is very physical as that is the southamerican football
characteristic and this explains somehow the difficult match the
team present against the egyptian team which as being
representant of Africa has also a good physic. This could work in favor of
the southamerican team in this match, but Barcelona is having a
good ball movement.

Is to remark the comform of the team, which is a mix of young
and experience player here I will remark 19-year-old FW Luiz
Adriano who make the winning goal in the semifinal and 17 years old,
FW Alexandre Pato who make the opener in that match. Which
represente the formation scheme the Brazilian clubs have, because as
soon as they show important things, Europe call to their doors
to take them to the big leagues.

There is experience in this team as FW Pedro Iarley help Boca
Juniors in 2003 to beat AC Milan when this was a single match
tournament call Intercontinental. International has a strong team
and will fight hard to earn the victory.

Barcelona
After beating America by 4-0,Barcelona has the favorite tag, and
once again coach Fran Rijkaard has declare against having the
favorite tag, and also to ask for prudence of their players, and
that they get to the game concentrated.

For the club this is the only title of an international
competition they haven't won, in their only participation in 1992, the
"Dream Team" lost the game. So winning this title will be the
great finale for last season which they won La Liga and the
Champions League. And with this being the best season of the club.

All the players the coach bring to Japan are available to play
and the most motivated is Ronaldinho, he will play against the
team of the place where he born, in this stadium on 2002 win the
World Cup, and after finishing the game will fly to Zurich for
the FIFA World Player Ceremony, which supposly he will win.

The team strong points are in every position, just in middle
field could be a weak side, but there ronaldinho can come back and
help with the distribution of the ball with the quality he
posses. The forwards are responding as in last match Gudjonsen make
the opener which help Barca take control of the match.

The young players where expected to play any minutes but it
seems that their opportunity will have to wait as Bacerlona has show
really strong and a winning this title will set a difference
from the "Dream Team" of 1992.

Match:
Will be a dispute one, with a little edge going to
Barcelona as they are a mature team and International have a mix of
youth and experience which will give strong opposition, but
Ronaldinho is a player that can make the difference as some other of
Barca.

Prediction:
The odds suggest a clear favorite of Barcelona,
still I think that International will put a firce stand and for me I
would take International 1 1/4 AH with 2/10. Supposly Barcelona can
play a lot better and International gave a poor display against
Al Ahly, but I expecte International to improve and will give
less space to Barcelona.

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America lost 1-2 to Aly Ahly. Which makes a fair match, scoring two goals Boutrika,the first one a splendid free kick goal and the second in a very good triangulation that let the defense frozen.
Cabañas score by America, the team look unworking and malfunction. A shame for the institution.

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Sao Paulo make improvement and won 1-0 the FIFA Club World Cup, and for third time consecutive out of three Brazilian Clubs won the tournament. A big 8.5 was offer for direct win.