[골닷컴] Reporter Park Byung-gyu = The FIFA Club World Cup will open in Qatar on February 4. Ulsan Hyundai is qualified as the 2020 AFC Champions League championship team and will be representing Asia. Let’s take a look at various records of the Club World Cup, which has reached its 21st year.
The 2020 FIFA Club World Cup, held in Doha, Qatar, is a competition where a total of 7 teams (6 teams this year), including champions from six continents and clubs from host countries, gather in one place to determine the best professional team in the world. In 1960, the championships of South America and Europe were scrambled, and in 2000, Brazil marked the beginning of an intercontinental club confrontation. There was a gap for four years after the first tournament was held, but it resumed with the Toyota Cup in 2005 and later changed to the FIFA Club World Cup.
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On the 31st, AFC raised the atmosphere of the opening by highlighting various records of the Club World Cup on the website. Let’s look at what records are there.
● 4-Real Madrid won the title of the most winning team with a total of 4 wins. Starting with his first championship in 2014, he won three consecutive championships from 2016 to 2018. FC Barcelona in 3rd, Brazil’s Corinthians in 2nd. European champion Bayern Munich, who competed in this event, won the championship with a win when participating in the 2013 competition. In addition, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Sao Paulo and others have won the championships once by victory.
● 5-German midfielder Tony Kroos experienced the most wins at the Club World Cup. In 2013, he reached the top of the world five times, one with Bayern Munich and four times with Real Madrid (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018).
● 7-Cristiano Ronaldo is the tournament’s top scorer with 7 goals. In 2008, he scored one goal for Manchester United (hereinafter referred to as Manchester United), and since 2016 he has scored six goals for Real Madrid. Gareth Bale (6 goals), Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi (5 goals) followed, but for the time being, it is likely to be an unbreakable record.
● 8-In 2008, Manchester United beat Gamba Osaka 5-3, scoring the most goals for both teams. The previous record was six goals for AC Milan and Boca Juniors (4-2) in 2007. In addition, the five goals scored by Manchester United are the most goals in a game. Real Madrid scored four goals against Kashima Antlers in 2016, but they didn’t cross the five goal wall.
● 17 – Alexandre Pato, a Brazilian football genius, was named the youngest man scorer in the FIFA tournament in December 2006 at the age of 17 and 102. Pato, who was then part of Brazil’s SC Internacional, scored the opening goal against Al Ahlli. This is a record beyond football emperor Pele, who held the title of the youngest scorer at the age of 17 and 249 days in the 1958 Sweden World Cup.
● 44 – Goalkeeper Oscar Peres from Pachuca, Mexico set the record for the oldest appearance in the 2017 tournament at 44 years and 10 months.
● 79-Al Ain’s Mohamed Ahmed set the shortest time scoring score at the 2018 tournament with a heading goal 79 seconds after the start of the game. In the past, Jiegu Tardeli of Atletico Mineiro (Brazil) scored a goal in 111 seconds against Everlande in Guangzhou in 2013.
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In addition, in a total of 16 competitions, European and South American champions were strong enough to hit 11 times in the final. In addition, from 2013, European champions such as Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid (4 times) and Liverpool have won the 7th consecutive championship.
Meanwhile, after 5 years since Jeonbuk Hyundai in 2016, K-League Team Ulsan will participate as Asia’s representative. The K-League team’s all-time best performance was Pohang Steelers, who finished third in 2009.
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