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FIFA Club World Cup more than just an event for illegal streaming
For all its faults, and there are many, the FIFA Club World Cup is a pleasurable, if quirky, annual event.
Its brevity satisfies the instant-gratification requirement of tournament football, and its international features appeal to the inner sports nerd who thrills on researching the squads and stories of teams from New Zealand, Tunisia and Japan.
It is, after all, the only truly global club competition of the world’s most global game. It’s also small, which makes it very un-FIFA, and that it’s largely reviled in Europe makes the mere act of enjoying it a sort of act of defiance.