Fluminense’s rival in the World Cup is Real Madrid from Africa – 12/17/2023 – The World Is a Ball

Fluminense’s opponent this Monday (18), in Jiddah, for a place in the final of the Club World Cup held in Saudi Arabia, Al Ahly can be considered “the African Real Madrid”.

The comparison of the Egyptian club with the Spanish one is based on the hegemony of each in the main championship of each continent.

Al Ahly, by far, is the biggest winner of the African Champions League. He won the competition, which gives the champion the right to participate in the World Cup, 11 times – and was runner-up in another five.

The closest to Al Ahly are Zamalek (another team from Egypt) and Mazembe, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who gained fame in Brazil by eliminating Internacional in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. five African Champions Leagues.

In Europe, the biggest winner of the most famous Champions League in the world is the giant Real Madrid, which reached the top of the region 14 times. Milan won the cup on seven occasions, and Bayern Munich and Liverpool on six.

If Fluminense is a debutant at the World Cup, Al Ahly has a lot of experience in the tournament, which has been organized by FIFA since 2000 and is in its 20th edition.

This is the ninth participation of the Cairo-based team, which has only been present more than Auckland City (11), from New Zealand.

The Egyptian association, however, never reached the decision. Their best position was third place, obtained in 2006 (when they fell to Inter with Clemer, Fernandão, Iarley and Alexandre Pato), in 2020 (defeat against Bayern) and in 2021 (beaten by Palmeiras by Abel Ferreira).

Al Ahly arrives for the duel with Fluminense with an unbeaten run of nine matches (four wins and five draws) and having beaten local Al Ittihad, owned by French star Benzema, in the quarter-finals.

In search of its greatest success, the African team relies primarily on athletes from its own country. Of the 23 registered for the World Cup, 19 are Egyptians.

The exceptions are left-back Maâloul (Tunisia), striker Tau (South Africa), midfielder Dieng (Mali) and striker Modeste (France) – the first two were starters against Al Ittihad, and the Tunisian scored a goal , from a penalty.

Modeste, 35, who played ten seasons in German football, will be absent against Fluminense because, four minutes after entering the quarter-final game, he was sent off.

This is a brief x-ray of the team that the Rio tricolor will try to displace to keep its hope alive of being the first Brazilian world champion since Corinthians, in 2012. After that, Atlético-MG (2013), Grêmio (2017), Flamengo (2019) failed. and 2022) and Palmeiras (2020 and 2021).

Whoever passes Fluminense x Al Ahly will face the winner of Manchester City (from England, current European champion) x Urawa Red Diamonds (from Japan, current Asian champion), who play on Tuesday (19).

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