Even prior to the FIFA Club World Cup began, the made over pageant had generated its proportion of doubts — over price tag gross sales, security features, loss of participant leisure, and extra.
But as soon as the video games kicked off, the point of interest was once intended to shift clear of the controversies to the motion at the box. But what about when an novice crew is going in opposition to probably the most adorned membership in Germany’s historical past and units a doubtful new document in FIFA competitions?
Auckland City, a non-professional aspect from New Zealand, was once clobbered 10-0 via Bayern Munich on Sunday within the day two of the Club World Cup.
Yes, that is the similar Bayern Munich that has received the Bundesliga 34 occasions and has a present participant roster value greater than $1 billion. By comparability, Auckland City’s flights to the U.S. to compete within the match reportedly price greater than the crew’s earnings for the 12 months.
Michael Olise, who scored 3 times, was once requested in a while if he began to really feel dangerous for his opponent as the sport went on and he shook his head, “No,” laughed, after which repeated, “No.”
The 10-0 end result highlights the quirkiness of the Club World Cup, which FIFA expanded to 32 groups amid issues about how aggressive it will be. Auckland City is the one novice crew within the match.
So the place does this end result fall in FIFA competitions? Well, it is the biggest dropping margin ever in a senior males’s match hosted via FIFA, in line with ESPN Global Research.
The Club World Cup has handiest been round since 2000, and the worst end result previous to Sunday was once Al Hilal’s 6-1 loss to Al Jazeera on the 2002 version of the match.
The FIFA males’s World Cup has noticed its proportion of lopsided effects because the match’s debut in 1930, however by no means a 10-goal loss. Here 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)