The world football governing body has corrected a list it published that did not recognise some Intercontinental Cup champions as counterparts in the last Club World Cup.
FIFA backtracks, re-recognises club world titles it ignored in controversial list . In an issue entitled “World Champion Clubs”, the Zurich entity only took into account the teams that won the Intercontinental between 1960 and 1999. From 2000 onwards, it only recognised those that won the Club World Cup, the event that replaced the definition that was traditionally contested by the monarchs of the Copa Libertadores de América and the European Cup, now the Champions League.
This consideration has raised dust, because it has affected the track record of well-known clubs. Boca Juniors was not recognized as world champion in In 2000 and 2003, Bayern Munich lost their status in 2001, Real Madrid lost the crown in 2002 and Porto lost the crown in 2004. There were more. In 2000, FIFA recognized Corinthians first winner of the Club World Cup, at the expense of the Xeneizes, who had obtained a historic victory over Real Marid
FIFA returns its titles
The entity chaired by Gianni Infantino was in trouble. In principle, because it contradicted a 2017 resolution which recognized the winners of the Intercontinental Cup of those years as world champions of the years that it now ignored. Since 2005, with the return of the Club World Cup in its current format, the organization has highlighted the clubs that remained with its brand new creation. In other words, the omission went in the opposite direction to the provisions that had been adopted at the time.
“After a hiatus between 2001 and 2004, the competition returned in 2005 as the FIFA Club World Cup and has continued to grow in stature, size and reputation, pitting the best teams from every continent against each other. “, underlined the paragraph with which FIFA expressed that it does not consider such intercontinental titles in its archives as equivalent to the status of world champion.
The controversial list has raised dust in all the clubs who felt affected by the disappearance of their names in the detail believing that this omission was detrimental to its historical achievements.
However, a few hours later, clarification and restitution of lost honor arrived.
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Source: Latercera
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