Club America and Chinese Guangzhou Evergrande face in the quarter-finals of the World Club of Japan, a shock to the team that will face FC Barcelona in the semifinals.
The Eagles and Cantonese in Osaka face their first match
in this year's Intercontinental competition, hoping to compete against the big
favorite of the World Club Cup and qualify for a quest that leads them to the
final.
America participated in the meeting for the second time
after winning the Champions League CONCACAF, although arrives to competition
after an uneven track record in the Apertura and fall in semifinals.
The team led by Ignacio Ambriz aims to improve their
fourth place in the 2006 World Club Cup, and it has the Argentine Dario
Benedetto and Mexican Oribe Peralta as offensive references and with a style of
play based on the order and intensity.
"I look forward very much to overcome what I did as
a player and get to the final," Ambriz, who recalled that his
participation in the World Club Cup 15 years ago with the shirt of Necaxa, with
which he managed to win on penalties at Real Madrid said and stay in third
position.
Ambriz has low defensive sensitive means Güémez, who is
out of the pitch for four to six months by the fractured tibia suffered in the
last match played against Pumas 6th.
The Asian champions, meanwhile, arrives in Japan with the
aim of improving the fourth place he achieved in his only appearance in 2013,
and a staff with a strong Brazilian accent who has lived a move by the
notorious season changes on the bench.
The exseleccionador of Canarinhos, Luiz Felipe Scolari,
directs Cantonese team since the dismissal in June of former player of Real
Madrid Fabio Cannavaro, and has in its ranks veteran attackers Robinho and
Ricardo Goulart and Elkesson.
Paulinho, another Brazilian stars Guangzhou, you know
what is to lift the Club World Cup title in Japan, as part of the Corinthians
that gave the stroke in 2012 by winning the final in Yokohama Chelsea.
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