Enrique Sanz
Real Madrid’s facing its longest and most demanding season. The seven competitions it must participate in over just ten months have turned the current soccer season into a test of absolute endurance. For now, isn’t going badly.
Especially considering the circumstances under which Ancelotti has to work, with a clear shortage of personnel that won’t be alleviated during the winter market. In this situation, the club has already added two titles, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup, in addition to remaining ‘alive’ in two others: LaLiga and the Champions League.
Besides those two competitions, always marked as a priority by the board of directors, a significant change would have come from the Valdebebas offices. Because the Club World Cup organized by FIFA, between June and July 2025, has become another focus of attention for two reasons.
The first is the lucrative prize money that the entity presided over by Gianni Infantino has announced for the occasion. FIFA, distancing itself from the model proposed by UEFA, has made it clear that it won’t take a single euro from everything caused by the clubs during the World Cup. The total prize for the winning club, in case of a perfect tournament, is set at 111 million euros.
That amount of money would mean a great income for Madrid’s treasury, equivalent to the sale of a player like Rodrygo Goes or Aurélien Tchouaméni. With so much ‘unexpected’ money in the coffers of Bernabéu, the white leaders would have another opportunity to intervene in the transfer market and make some more transfers.
However, it’s not just the money that motivates Real Madrid to win the Club World Cup. In addition to the competitive drive to achieve a full set of titles this season, the tournament is an excellent opportunity to establish itself definitively in the American market.
The expansion of Real Madrid across the globe continues even though it’s a brand known almost everywhere in the world. Especially thanks to the institutional work carried out by the current board of directors, led by Florentino Pérez. The president of the white club has managed to bring the Madrid entity into the 21st century.
That work is far from over. Any opportunity is ideal to increase Madrid’s representation on the planet and the Club World Cup offers an excellent window that should be seized without hesitation. Another challenge for Real Madrid looking ahead to 2025.
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