World Club Championship

[Bob]

I didn't say it was. The "World Club Championship" has been going since 1960. Pele, Puskas, Di Stefano, Eusebio, Best, Charlton, Cruyff and Dalglish have all played in it.

 

I played in a competition called the Champions League just last wednesday in a five a side league, does that mean i have played in the champions league.

 

And which of your arguments are you currently using, apparently the Fifa website is correct and everything on there is true, is that what you are saying? Yet you choose to disagree with it.

 

You are saying that it was called the World Club Championship in 81 and 84 , and since i was born in 81 i dont remember and won't disagree with you, but according to the website that you choose to justify yourself, it wasnt, it was the Intercontinental Cup.

 

Surely you understand that this is not the same competition. Fifa want to incorporate the other previous intercontinental/toyota cup winners because that is an important history and Fifa loves having history, but in reality it is not 'only the name that has changed', or not 'only the name and the format', it is the name, the format, the amount of teams qualified and the reange of continents allowed qualification.

How much has to change before it is a new competition?

 

In 15 years time that list will still be here and it will read similarly, only there will be another section from 2005 called the 'World Club Championships' and Our name (if we win it obviously) will be the first.

[MLB]

I seem to remember it being called the World Club Championship in the 80s, but I might be wrong. It was something like that anyway.

[Hermes]

I seem to remember it being called the World Club Championship in the 80s, but I might be wrong. It was something like that anyway.

 

Since 1960 actually.

[terry mac]

REDS DEBATING TOKYO INVITE

Paul Eaton 04 August 2005

Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry has admitted the Reds are still considering whether or not to take part in this season's World Club Championship.

As European Champions, the Reds are automatically invited to take part in December's showpiece event in Tokyo, when the winners from the different FIFA confederations meet for a week long competition.

 

Liverpool have been drawn to play either Deportivo Saprissa or FC Sydney in the semi-finals of the competition, but Parry says the Reds must decide whether it would serve the club's best interests to take part.

 

"The World Club Championship draw has been made," he said. "This is something we are debating very carefully at the moment. It is a world tournament that is prestigious but we have to balance that with the potential of losing another domestic fixture.

 

"We are already facing the disruption of two Premier League fixtures due to the Champions League third round qualifier and the Super Cup.

 

"All of this is down to the price of success and as we've discovered in the past, you tend not to get a lot of sympathy for being successful."