Who: Paris Saint-Germain vs Atletico Madrid
What: FIFA Membership World Cup 2025
The place: Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, United States
When: Sunday, June 15, 12:00pm PDT kickoff (19:00 GMT)
observe our protection: We’ll have all of the build-up from 6pm (16:00 GMT) on Al Jazeera Sport.
Freshly topped kings of Europe, Paris Saint-Germain, are treating FIFA’s profitable new-look FIFA Membership World Membership not as a nuisance on the finish of an exhausting season however as a critical goal.
“I feel it’s an unbelievable competitors,” PSG coach Luis Enrique mentioned of the Membership World Cup within the rapid aftermath of his workforce’s UEFA Champions League triumph in Munich.
“Our intention is to be aggressive and attempt to win a fifth trophy of the season.”
The Qatar-backed French giants may very well be forgiven for wanting a while to bask within the glory of their 5-0 victory over Inter Milan in Munich, which allowed them to lastly win the Champions League for the primary time of their historical past.
There had been quite a few agonising failures in Europe’s elite membership competitors, in addition to billions of euros spent on switch charges for stars like Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, previous to captain Marquinhos elevating the trophy aloft.
“We’ve made historical past for the membership, for town and for the entire nation,” defender Lucas Hernandez advised the sports activities each day L’Equipe, after the PSG squad paraded their trophy down the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, attended a reception with President Emmanuel Macron and celebrated with virtually 50,000 followers at their Parc des Princes stadium.
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PSG have performed 58 matches since final August, and in addition swept all of the obtainable home trophies in France this season, as has grow to be the norm in recent times.
However there’s merely no time to cease and replicate.
A lot of their gamers, together with Champions League last hero Want Doue, spent final week on worldwide obligation earlier than returning to their membership and departing for Los Angeles, the place they are going to start their FIFA Club World Cup journey this weekend.
“The match itself is a extremely enticing prospect,” Luis Enrique advised FIFA.com.
“We’ve to strike the stability between managing the bodily and psychological fatigue we’re experiencing now on the finish of an extended season and harnessing the motivation that comes with being concerned within the competitors.”
PSG’s opening sport is in opposition to one other European heavyweight as they take on Antoine Griezmann’s Atletico Madrid on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, simply exterior Los Angeles, on Sunday.
They are going to then additionally face South American champions Botafogo, of Brazil, earlier than transferring north to tackle Seattle Sounders of their remaining Group B matches.
Anticipated to qualify for the knockout section with out too many points, PSG may find yourself taking part in a complete of seven matches in the event that they make all of it the way in which to the ultimate in New York on July 13 – only a month earlier than their scheduled first sport of subsequent season within the UEFA Supercup in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur.
Have PSG made any new signings since their Champions League win?
The pressure of such an extended marketing campaign is telling, with Ousmane Dembele – their prime scorer this season with 33 objectives – battling an damage picked up taking part in for France final week.
They didn’t handle so as to add any new gamers to their squad through the transient switch window that opened in the beginning of this month forward of the match. Reported curiosity in Bournemouth’s Ukrainian defender, Illia Zabarnyi, didn’t flip into something concrete.
However the rewards for achievement within the Membership World Cup are attractive and needs to be sufficient to maintain Luis Enrique’s squad targeted on their goal, with as much as a surprising $125 million in prize cash on supply for the best-performing European workforce in the event that they handle to go all the way in which.
Paris Saint-Germain (France) full squad:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matvey Safonov, Arnau Tenas
Defenders: Achraf Hakimi, Marquinhos, Lucas Peraldo, Presnel Kimpembe, Nuno Mendes, Lucas Hernandez, William Pacho, Noham Kamara
Midfielders: Gabriel Moscardo, Fabian Ruiz, Joao Neves, Senny Mayulu, Warren Zaire-Emery, Vitinha
Forwards: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Goncalo Ramos, Ousmane Dembele, Want Doue, Lee Kang-In, Bradley Barcola, Ibrahim Mbaye
Atletico Madrid (Spain) full squad:
Goalkeepers: Joan Musso, Jan Oblak, Antonio Gomis, Salvi Esquivel
Defenders: Jose Maria Gimenez, Cesar Azpilicueta, Clement Lenglet, Nahuel Molina, Axel Witsel, Javi Galan, Reinildo, Robin Le Normand, Ilias Kostis
Midfielders: Conor Gallagher, Rodrigo De Paul, Koke, Pablo Barrios, Thomas Lemar, Samu Lino, Marcos Llorente, Rodrigo Riquelme, Javi Serrano, Taufik Seidu, Rayane Belaid
Forwards: Antoine Griezmann, Alexander Sorloth, Angel Correa, Carlos Martin, Julian Alvarez, Guiliano Simeone
