It will be interesting to see the European training stalling in the face of the best clubs of other continents. But in the meantime, the Mondial des Clubs offered an astonishing show on Sunday with the 10-0 victory of Bayern Munich against Auckland City FC.
The German champions did not even need to force (they led 4-0 after a little more than 20 minutes), because their opponent does not play in the same courtyard. In the ranking of clubs established by OPTA statisticians, Auckland City FC now appears… in the 5072nd in the world.
It is the level of US Chauvigny (5087th), formation of Poitou-Charentes, which has just finished 8th in its pool in National 3, just in front of the Berrichonne de Châteauroux reserve.
Auckland City has the level of a French amateur club. This is not surprising, because the New Zealand club is not professional either. His players, who have another job in life, had to pose leave to make the trip to the United States.
Auckland, the best team in Oceania
But what is a team of such a team at the Club World Cup doing? By tilting in a 32 club format, FIFA has granted a ticket to the Oceanian Confederation, of which Auckland City is simply the best team.
By fighting against clubs from Tahiti, Fiji or Papua New Guinea (Australian clubs, such as their national selection, are attached to the Asian Confederation), the ACFC has won the Oceanian Champions League 13 times since 2006. No club dominates its continent so much.
At the planetary level, it is necessarily harder for Auckland, who had however created a nice surprise at the World Cup 2014 clubs, under the old formula. After victories on the Moghreb Tétouan (Morocco) and on ES Sétif (Algeria), the New Zealanders had stumbled in the semi-finals on the Argentines of San Lorenzo (1-2 AP) before offering 3rd place at the expense of Mexicans of Cruz Azul (1-1, 4-2 AP). It will be hard to do as well this year …
