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Reçu aujourd’hui — 1 juillet 2025

‘I took the Club World Cup as a challenge’: Dani Carvajal returns for Real Madrid

1 juillet 2025 à 00:38

Club captain on coming back from injury, the importance of his family and Trent Alexander-Arnold fitting in well

Dani Carvajal misses his family. The good news is that in return he’s about to become reacquainted with something he has missed as much. For some players, this is a competition too far, played on poor pitches in half-empty stadiums and suffocating heat, something they could do without, but it has been good for Real Madrid’s captain, something to aim at.

Now, 270 days later and 4,400 miles away, just as the Club World Cup gets real, he is back to face Juventus in the last 16 in Miami. “And I know what I’m like: if they let me loose, there’ll be no fear,” he says.

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© Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

© Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

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Harry Kane sinks Flamengo to set up Bayern Munich’s Club World Cup tie with PSG

30 juin 2025 à 00:57
  • Last 16: Flamengo 2-4 Bayern Munich

  • Gerson 33, Jorginho 55pen; Pulgar 6og, Kane 9 73, Goretzka 41

A World Cup is a better place for the Brazilians, but this one has lost two in 24 hours. The day after Botafogo fell to Palmerias, Flamengo departed too, cut down by Harry Kane.

That sea of red and black will be missed and their team will too: the side who beat Chelsea showed that was not by chance, as they made a game of this one, scoring twice at the Hard Rock Stadium, their fans banging drums and their coach declaring his pride at how they had played. But it was Bayern Munich who progressed.

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© Photograph: Richard Sellers/Getty Images/Allstar

© Photograph: Richard Sellers/Getty Images/Allstar

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PSG sweep Inter Miami and Messi aside to reach Club World Cup quarter-final

29 juin 2025 à 21:22
  • Last 16: Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 Inter Miami

  • Neves 6 39, Avilés 44og, Hakimi 45+3

There were two minutes of Inter Miami’s Club World Cup left and the cameras were out in Atlanta. Here at last was the moment many had come for, one that didn’t matter as far as the match was concerned but that felt almost bigger than all that went before, a comment perhaps on this competition and the dimension of the man everyone was watching now as ever. Lionel Messi stood outside the area, a little to the right, the ball at his feet, a wall built before him. Paris Saint-Germain had been 4-0 up for an hour and his team were long since defeated but maybe he could depart his way, leaving something else to remember him by.

He took a step back, ran forward in that familiar way and curled the free‑kick into the bodies dressed in blue. This time it wasn’t to be; this time, reality was something else, implacably imposed by the European champions. The day before, Javier Mascherano admitted his Miami side had not really expected to get the chance to play this game and when it came to it PSG proved the coach right.

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© Photograph: Mike Stewart/AP

© Photograph: Mike Stewart/AP

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