2005 FIFA Club World Championship
The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup was the first edition of new tournament risen by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a pilot edition in 2000 but later discontinued).
The football tournament was held in Japan from 11 December to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo. It is FIFA's biggest club football tournament, though is not as highly regarded by most sides as regional tournaments such as the Copa Libertadores and UEFA Champions League.
Read more about 2005 FIFA Club World Championship: Background, Format, Qualified Teams, Venues, Squads, Referees, Bracket, Scorers, Awards
Famous quotes containing the words club and/or world:
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,—and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)