Even earlier than the FIFA Club World Cup began, the revamped competitors had generated its share of doubts — over ticket sales, security measures, lack of player rest, and more.
However as soon as the video games kicked off, the main target was imagined to shift away from the controversies to the motion on the sector. However what about when an beginner group goes towards essentially the most adorned membership in Germany’s historical past and units a doubtful new report in FIFA competitions?
Auckland Metropolis, a non-professional side from New Zealand, was clobbered 10-0 by Bayern Munich on Sunday within the day two of the Membership World Cup.
Sure, that is the identical Bayern Munich that has gained the Bundesliga 34 instances and has a present participant roster value greater than $1 billion. By comparability, Auckland Metropolis’s flights to the U.S. to compete within the event reportedly value greater than the group’s income for the yr.
Michael Olise, who scored 3 times, was requested afterward if he began to really feel unhealthy for his opponent as the sport went on and he shook his head, “No,” laughed, after which repeated, “No.”
The ten-0 consequence highlights the quirkiness of the Membership World Cup, which FIFA expanded to 32 groups amid considerations about how competitive it would be.
So the place does this consequence fall in FIFA competitions? Nicely, it is the most important dropping margin ever in a senior males’s event hosted by FIFA, in accordance with ESPN International Analysis.
The Membership World Cup has solely been round since 2000, and the worst consequence previous to Sunday was Al Hilal’s 6-1 loss to Al Jazeera on the 2002 version of the event.
The FIFA males’s World Cup has seen its share of lopsided outcomes because the event’s debut in 1930, however by no means a 10-goal loss. Listed below are the largest losses in FIFA World Cup historical past:
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Hungary vs. El Salvador: 10-1 (1982)
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Yugoslavia vs. Zaire: 9-0 (1974)
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Hungary vs. South Korea: 9-0 (1954)