Colchoneros and Parisians will open the action in Group B, which also includes Botafogo and Seattle Sounders.
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With its new status of King of Europe, Paris Saint-Germain begins the conquest of the New Club World Cup in Sunday with Atlético de Madrid, in the middle of the tense environment that is breathed in Los Angeles, United States.
The squads of Spanish Luis Enrique and the Argentine Diego Simeone already saw the faces in November, with a triumph at home of the Madrid team 2-1.
Without time to celebrate the title in the Champions League, the PSG traveled to the United States as one of the great favorites in this first World Cup expanded to 32 teams, which starts engines this Saturday in Miami.
The French team prepares since Tuesday in Irvine, a suburb south of Los Angeles away from the center of the great Californian city, where protests have been concentrated against the migratory raids of Donald Trump.
The political context motivated several precautionary measures for this match, which will be played at the Centennial Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena (almost 90,000 seats), east of Los Angeles, headquarters of the 1994 World Cup final.
The previous press conferences of both teams, scheduled for Saturday afternoon, were advanced to a morning schedule in forecast of the demonstration that will take place during the day in Los Angeles and many other US cities against Trump's immigration policies, which have included the deployment of military.
The possible presence of immigration agents in stadiums of the Club World Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup, which also starts on Saturday, has generated concern among football fans in the United States, mainly in the Latin community.
The match is scheduled for Sunday at 12 noon (19h00 GMT), a schedule that will allow the European public to follow one of the most attractive clashes of the tournament groups.
Luis Enrique's puzzle
After its triumphal season, the PSG goes with a special aura to a World Cup that lacks the recent Spanish leagues (Barcelona), English (Liverpool) and Italian (Naples).
One of the great unknowns will be to verify the physical state of the players of the Parisian squad. From the beating 5-0 to Inter Milan in the Champions League final, many pupils of Luis Enrique faced commitments to his selections before traveling to the United States.
To begin with, the coach will have to find a replacement of Ousmane Dembélé, who was injured his left thigh during the duel between France and Spain of the League of Nations on June 5.
The end is part of the squad but is in doubt for the first phase, in which the PSG will also be measured with the Botafogo and the Seattle Sounders by Group B.
One of its possible substitutes, Bradley Barcola, also suffers a knee problem whose reach is unknown.
On the contrary, other team figures such as Doué, Vitinha or Hakimi seem, for the moment, immune to fatigue.
Drought of titles in Madrid
On the Atlético side, Simeone wants to compensate for a season that soon twisted in the Champions (elimination in the round of 16) and in the Spanish League (third place).
Without great reinforcements for the event, the mattresses will trust their defensive strength and in the danger of the attacker that make up the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann and the Argentine Julián Álvarez.
Griezmann will be one of the great attractions of the duel against his country's team. The 34 -year -old tip already condemned them in November orchestrating the backlash with which Atlético scored the victory goal in the discount.
The Frenchman will also play in the city he dreamed of receiving him as the new star of Los Angeles FC of the American League (MLS) and now he will have to wait at least until 2027, when he expires Griezmann's recent renewal by the Spanish team.
Time and where to see PSG vs. Atlético de Madrid
- Date: Sunday June 15
- Time: 2:00 pm Colombia time
- Estadio: Rose Bowl De Los Angeles
- Transmission: Directv Sports and Dazn
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