GOAL Convo: The former U.S. goalkeeper discussed MLS's beginnings, what the 2026 World Cup could mean for the league

The growth of soccer in America has surpassed anything Tony Meola could have imagined when he was playing in the 1994 World Cup.

"If I had a nickel for every time someone tells me '30 years [ago] I became a fan because of 1994,' I'd be on an island somewhere working on my golf game and fishing game," Meola jokingly reflected to GOAL.

The USMNT legend, who started four games as a fresh-faced, ponytailed goalkeeper in that tournament, noted that the expectations and roles for American players were vastly different compared to today.

"We always joke about the fact that we had two jobs, right? We had to play. You had to get ready for the game and get ready for trying to make a World Cup team," he said. "But then you had to promote the sport. Because the sport clearly wasn't at the level that it is now."

In 1994, American soccer fans had few ways to engage with the sport. There weren’t dozens of streaming packages to follow global leagues, and domestic players struggled to find professional opportunities. That began to change with the advent of Major League Soccer, which emerged as part of the U.S. hosting the world’s biggest sporting event.

"There was a rallying cry, or a belief that at least some of us had to stay in the U.S. to try and help promote the game, to try and help move it forward, you know?" he said. "And there were opportunities for players. It was a new league. No one knew about it. No one had ever seen it before, and the hope was that we would be in the forefront of having it grow."

Now in its 30th season, MLS has exceeded expections. Meola, now 56, helped launch the league as a member of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars.

"If you'd have told me that it would look like this in 2025, I probably would have told you you were crazy," he said. "It's grown to a place that I don't think any of us could have ever imagined, at least not if you were part of 1996 and that group that came into the league."

With the 2026 World Cup now exactly a year away, Meola hopes MLS can take another major step forward.

The goalkeeper turned broadcaster discussed the league’s evolution and his hopes for what’s next in the latest GOAL Convo, a Q&A with central figures in the American soccer scene.

Getty Images SportON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 1994 AND 2026

GOAL: It is exactly one year out from the 2026 World Cup kicking off. What are your thoughts on how things are shaping up and how it all compares to what you experienced in 1994?

MEOLA: Well, it's obviously exciting, right? One year out begins the count down right to the World Cup. And I can remember one year out from '94, obviously, we were training in Mission Viejo, California. And the excitement started to build. There are some similarities, for sure, but I think we're in a completely different spot here in the US than we were back then. Back then, we always joked about the fact that we had two jobs, right? We had to, we had to play. You had to get ready for the game and get ready for trying to make a World Cup team. But then you had to promote the sport, right? Because the sport clearly wasn't at the level that it is now, where now we've got Major League Soccer is established in the U.S. We continue to grow every day. So there's an awareness about soccer. So the players are in different circumstances. Now we're going to see how countries fill cities up and find ways to gather… It's going to be incredible.

AdvertisementGetty Images SportON THE LAUNCH OF MLS

GOAL: When did you start hearing MLS would be a thing, and what was your immediate reaction to it as a player?

MEOLA: We knew about Major League Soccer starting before the World Cup started. That was the plan. We would use the '94 World Cup to sort of be the launching pad for Major League Soccer. And of course, it was supposed to start in 1995, but it didn't. It got pushed back a year, which was, in hindsight, the right decision. We knew about it, and we were all excited about it. And there was a rallying cry, or a belief that at least some of us had to stay in the U.S. to try and help promote the game, to try and help move it forward. And there were opportunities for players. We did a really good job of of positioning guys, Alexi Lalas in Boston, and myself and Tab [Ramos] in New York.

Go through the list of guys: Eric [Wynalda] went out West. Jeff Agoos in D.C.. where he had spent so much time at UVA. John Harkes, the same thing, and we were able to position guys in the right places, to spread the word, if you will, about the league. It was a new league. No one knew about it. No one had ever seen it before, and the hope was that we would be in the forefront of having it grow. I had a vision of where I thought it would grow, and I thought it would be great. We had just come off the World Cup. There's so much excitement about the game. If you had told me that it would look like this in 2025, I probably would have told you you were crazy. And it's grown to a place that I don't think any of us could have ever imagined, at least not if you were part of 1996 and that group that came into the league.

Getty Images SportON THE GROWTH OF SOCCER IN THE U.S.

GOAL: You mentioned you felt like you had two jobs, one was to promote soccer here. When did you realize the sport would have staying power here?

MEOLA: I thought that when the league started. And then there was a dark period a couple of years later, right, where we saw a contraction in the league. Looking back on it, it seems logical, right? You start in a bunch of places, and it doesn't necessarily work in some, and you have to add some other places. There were some scary moments… And I was sort of at the beginning of the growth of that. So to look at it, you know, we always knew in New York, in L.A., eventually down in Miami, one day in D.C., It would take a little while, but it would grow. But you know, you're talking about Kansas City and Columbus and Austin, Texas now. And just think of what those places look like on the weekend.

As much as we all dreamed about that stuff. I think we have over 20 new stadiums in the last 25 years. And like, it's incredible what we've done. I get people who look sometimes from the outside, can find fault in things that happen in the game, in our country. But if you do that, that's fine, because that's every business in the world, right? When you really sit back and think about it, there's no sport, there's no league in the world that has grown like this one has. It's incredible to think about it. And luckily, it's here. Like, I'm glad I get to see it, and glad my kids get to see it. And hopefully, we'll take the World Cup and use it again as another springboard to get to the next level.

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ImagnON THE IMPACT OF THE '26 WORLD CUP

GOAL: Where do you think the 2026 World Cup can take MLS?

MEOLA: One of the missions is always for Major League Soccer is to convert soccer fans into MLS fans, right? There's those grapple between where players play. Mauricio Pochettino has made it clear that he doesn't care [where guys play]. We're looking at the national team now, and guys in MLS are making a name for themselves, not only in the league on the weekends but also in camps with a national team. Look at a guy like Diego Luna… we're looking at a guy that could potentially be a World Cup player that comes out of the RSL system.

And it's stories like that that I think, really show the quality of the league and show where we're at as a league. You know Diego Luna plays for Real Salt Lake, or Patrick Agyemang plays in Charlotte.You know Brian White plays in Vancouver. And that's what the World Cup will do for those guys. It's life-changing, and it'll be changing for Major League Soccer because we will inherently just have more fans… There'll be enough opportunity to use the World Cup to help the league grow.

India showed their batting might to beat West Indies by 200 runs in the series decider in Tarouba. They have now won 13 consecutive ODI series against West Indies, stretching all the way back to 2006.Playing without Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli once again, India rode on the half-centuries from Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson and Hardik Pandya to post a mammoth 351 for 5.After that, West Indies were never in the game. Mukesh Kumar wrecked their chase with three early wickets. And when Shardul Thakur also picked up two in his successive overs, it left them tottering at 50 for 6. A 59-run stand for the ninth wicket, between Alzarri Joseph and Gudakesh Motie, only delayed the inevitable.In the morning, after Shai Hope opted to field, Kishan and Gill gave India a brisk start of 143 in 19.4 overs. Both openers enjoyed the ball coming on to the bat, which was not the case in the first two ODIs in Bridgetown. Kishan relished his luck, too. He was dropped by Keacy Carty on 9, and survived a run-out chance on 63, but his positive intent meant he finished with 77 off 64 balls despite not always looking in control. It was his third half-century in as many matches in the series.Early on, Kishan was troubled by Kyle Mayers. Bowling around the wicket with the new ball, Mayers beat his outside edge twice in three overs. Kishan responded by dancing down the track and hitting him for back-to-back fours.Shubman Gill and Sanju Samson put on a 69-run stand off just 53 deliveries•Associated Press

Gill got to face just one ball in the first two overs and got off the mark in the third, with a pulled four off Jayden Seales. In the fast bowler’s next over, he picked up two more boundaries, the first via a short-arm jab and the second via a punch between cover and point.Gill and Kishan took India to 73 for no loss by the end of the tenth over. When the field restrictions were relaxed, Gill focused on playing risk-free cricket. Kishan, though, kept going for his shots. First, he hit Joseph a six and a four, and then drilled Motie down the ground. Another six, this time off Romario Shepherd, took him to 49 off 39 balls, and four balls later, he brought up his half-century.Yannic Cariah broke the opening stand by having Kishan stumped for 77 off 64 balls. The legspinner beat him in the flight and with the turn as Kishan tried to use his feet.Ruturaj Gaikwad, playing just his second ODI, didn’t last long and edged Joseph to first slip for 8.Samson looked to attack right from the start, and hit three sixes in his first 13 balls. He was severe on Cariah, in particular, taking him for 28 runs off just ten balls. And even though Motie kept him quiet, conceding only four off 12 balls, Samson raced away to fifty in 39 balls.Samson and Gill added 69 in just 8.5 overs, the latter contributing 18 off 12. The stand was broken when Samson, soon after his fifty, failed to clear mid-off against Shepherd. His wicket also put a brake on the scoring rate: Samson fell in the 32nd over; in the next eight, India managed only 23.Mukesh Kumar picked three early wickets to rattle West Indies•AFP/Getty Images

India lost Gill, too, during this phase. He was looking good for a hundred but fell for 85 off 92 balls; a length delivery from Motie got stuck in the pitch, resulting in an easy catch to short midwicket.Batting at No. 6, Suryakumar Yadav gave a glimpse of his T20 fluency. He scored 35 off 30, which included a six on each side of the wicket behind the square. Towards the end of the innings, Hardik also hit a few lusty blows to finish unbeaten. It was a late acceleration by him. At one stage, he was on 11 off 22. Off the next 30, he scored almost two runs per ball to finish on 70 not out off 52.West Indies’ chase never got going, with Mukesh getting Brandon King to edge one behind in the very first over. The seamer kept peppering the good length outside off and had Mayers chopping one onto his stumps and Hope nicking one to first slip. Those blows reduced West Indies to 17 for 3.Jaydev Unadkat, playing his first ODI in almost ten years, took just five balls to make an incision of his own. He got Carty to edge one to the right of first slip where Gill took a low catch. Shimron Hetmyer and Shepherd offered little resistance and fell to Thakur.Just like in the first ODI, West Indies’ lower order could do little against Kuldeep Yadav’s variations. Joseph and Motie kept the Indian bowlers at bay for close to ten overs before Thakur bounced out Joseph. In his next over, Thakur rattled Seales’ stumps to complete the formalities.

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O Corinthians está escalado para enfrentar o Fluminense, nesta quarta-feira (24), às 19h30, pela partida de ida das semifinais da Copa do Brasil. Vítor Pereira levará a campo: Cássio, Fagner, Balbuena, Gil e Fábio Santos; Du Queiroz, Fausto Vera e Renato Augusto; Adson, Róger Guedes e Yuri Alberto.

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A partida terá transmissão peloSportv, Premiere e Amazon Prime, no streaming. Nesta Copa do Brasil, o Timão entrou na terceira fase e eliminou a Portuguesa-RJ, Santos e Atlético-GO.

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RESERVAS E DESFALQUES

No banco de reservas, o Timão tem como opções: Carlos Miguel, Bruno Melo, Piton, Robson Bambu, Robert Renan, Cantillo, Ramiro, Xavier, Mateus Vital, Guilherme Biro, Gustavo Mosquito e Giovane.

Os desfalques do Corinthians são: Bruno Méndez (disputou a Copa do Brasil pelo Internacional); Giuliano (bronquite); Rafael Ramos (transição);Raul Gustavo (dores no adutor da coxa direita);Júnior Moraes e Roni (dores no joelho direito); Maycon (início de treino de força/academia) e Paulinho (ligamento cruzado anterior do joelho esquerdo).

FLUMINENSE X CORINTHIANS
COPA DO BRASIL – SEMIFINAL – IDA
Local: Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Data e hora: 24 de agosto de 2022, às 19h30
Árbitro: Ramon Abatti Abel (SC)
Assistentes: Kleber Lucio Gil (FIFA) [SC] e Fabricio Vilarinho da Silva (FIFA) [GO]
Árbitro de vídeo: Wagner Reway (PB)
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Arsenal are now in the race to sign a “world-class” striker who’s unhappy at his current club, meaning a deal could be possible for £54m this summer, according to a report.

New striker wanted despite Merino form

Mikel Merino has done a fine job stepping in at striker when called upon this season, amid injuries to Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, with the Spaniard outscoring a number of high-profile forwards in the Premier League.

That said, given that Merino is not an out-and-out striker, Mikel Arteta remains keen on bringing in a top centre-forward in the summer, and the Gunners continue to be linked with some big-name signings.

Lille’s Jonathan David and Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak are both on the shortlist, having been in fine form in front of goal this season, while the north Londoners also retain an interest in RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko and Fiorentina’s Moise Kean.

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According to a report from Caught Offside, another name on Arsenal’s list of targets is Ademola Lookman, who is expected to leave Atalanta this summer, amid widespread reports of a falling out with manager Gian Piero Gasperini.

However, the race for Lookman is seriously hotting up, as seven Premier League clubs are now chasing the forward, namely Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United and Aston Villa, so there is set to be fierce competition for his signature.

The Italian club have set an asking price of €65m (£54m), amid the widespread interest, with the likes of Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Juventus also believed to be keen on the former Everton man, who actually has the same agent as Havertz.

"World-class" Lookman could be perfect for Arsenal

The Nigerian has predominantly featured as a second striker or centre-forward for Atalanta this season, and he has put in some very impressive performances, amassing 18 goals and seven assists in 32 matches in all competitions.

Not only that, but the 27-year-old has been lauded as “world-class” by the BBC’s John Bennett, in light of his performances across 2024, most notably scoring a hat-trick for Atalanta to lead them to glory in the Europa League final.

While the London-born forward has often featured centrally this season, he is also capable of playing on either wing, which could make him an ideal option for Arsenal next season.

Arteta has been left light on options in attack at times, with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli spending time on the sidelines, and the signing of Lookman would provide the strength in depth required to compete on all fronts.

بدأت ملامح ملف عبد الله السعيد، لاعب الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك، تتضح داخل جدران القلعة البيضاء، في ظل سعي جون إدوارد المدير الرياضي، لدعم الفارس الأبيض بعناصر تمتلك الخبرة، استعدادًا لانطلاقة الموسم الجديد.

وعلم بطولات من مصدر داخل الزمالك، أن إدارة النادي توصلت لاتفاق مع عبد الله السعيد، صانع الألعاب المخضرم، على تجديد عقده لمدة موسمين قادمين، ليكون ضمن مشروع المدير الرياضي جون إدوارد لبناء فريق تنافسي يضم مزيجًا من الشباب والخبرة، خاصة بعد إعلان محمود عبد الرازق شيكابالا اعتزاله رسميًا.

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وأوضح المصدر أن التفاوض شهد مرونة من جانب عبد الله السعيد، الذي كان قد طلب في البداية الحصول على 35 مليون جنيه في الموسم الواحد، قبل أن يتم تقريب وجهات النظر، عن طريق جون إدوارد، حتى وصل الطرفان لاتفاق نهائي على التوقيع مقابل 20 مليون جنيه في الموسم، وهو الحد الأقصى الذي يستطيع النادي دفعه في الوقت الحالي.

وأنهى عبد الله السعيد بالفعل إجراءات توقيع العقود، لينضم رسميًا إلى قائمة الزمالك للموسمين المقبلين، في انتظار الإعلان الرسمي خلال أيام، بعد الانتهاء من بعض التفاصيل الخاصة بقيد اللاعبين وتجهيز معسكر الإعداد.

ويواصل الزمالك، ومديره الرياضي جون إدوارد، ترتيب الملفات الخاصة بفريق الكرة، ضمن الاستعداد للموسم الكروي الجديد بعد حسم ملف المدير الفني والتعاقد مع البلجيكي يانيك فيريرا.

Eintracht Frankfurt sporting director Markus Krosche has insisted the German side don't need to sell Hugo Ekitike amid Premier League interest.

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• Frankfurt value Ekitike at €100m
• Linked with Chelsea, Arsenal & more
• Frankfurt director says they don't need to sell striker

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Frankfurt reportedly value the striker at €100 million (£85m), despite speculation that Chelsea are prepared to offer €80m (£68m). Now, board member Krosche has declared that if the "price isn't right", the Frenchman will stay put for next season.

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  He told Wiesbadener Kurier: “If the price isn’t right, then he’ll simply stay with us. We don’t have to sell Hugo.”

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  Ekitike has been linked with Chelsea,Arsenal and Liverpool off the back of scoring 22 goals and adding 12 assists in 48 appearances in all competitions for the German side this season. After losing forward Omar Marmoush to Manchester City in January, the German team are demanding huge fees for their biggest assets, which may fend off Premier League interest.

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  WHAT NEXT?

  The 22-year-old, who only joined Frankfurt from Paris Saint-Germain last summer, still has four years left on his contract, so luring the tall striker away from the Bundesliga outfit will not be easy.

Glasgow Rangers avoided embarrassment by coming back from 3-1 down to win 4-3 in a dramatic Scottish Premiership clash with Dundee on Saturday.

The Light Blues needed two long shots from Tom Lawrence and James Tavernier to get back level, before Cyriel Dessers secured all three points late on.

It was Lawrence’s first goal for Rangers since October of last year against FCSB in the Europa League, and it remains to be seen whether or not he will still be at Ibrox next term, as his contract is due to expire this summer.

The Rangers players who are out of contract this summer

The English forward is one of three senior first-team players who are out of contract at the end of this season, alongside Ianis Hagi and veteran defender Leon Balogun.

As per Transfermarkt, Lawrence and Hagi are both valued at around £1.7m and would, therefore, not depart as hugely valuable assets if they were to move on for nothing. Balogun, meanwhile, turns 37 this summer and is valued at just £115k.

Rangers have some big decisions to make because their Romanian attacking midfielder has contributed with three goals and seven assists in 21 Premiership matches, whilst Lawrence has scored four goals and provided two assists in 15 league outings.

Despite both players being out of contract, there is a Gers dud who is worth even less than them, and the 49ers investment group, part of the takeover that has been agreed in principle, must ruthlessly ditch him this summer – Ross McCausland.

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The Northern Ireland international came up through the academy at Ibrox and emerged as a first-team regular early on in Philippe Clement’s reign in the 2023/24 campaign.

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McCausland, who turns 22 this summer, has failed to kick on after making his breakthrough at senior level, though, and has been an unused substitute in 15 of his last 23 appearances in the matchday squad in all competitions.

As you can see in the table above, the Northern Irish winger has not impressed Clement or Barry Ferguson enough to earn regular game time, and he has made little impact on the pitch with the opportunities that have come his way.

The lightweight, who has lost 91% of his aerial duels in the Premiership this season, is 22 this year and has only fallen further down the pecking order, rather than progressing, since his first-team emergence, which does not suggest that he is on the right path to being a star for Rangers.

That might come as a surprise, particularly to Ferguson who had been impressed with him before even arriving back at Ibrox. Speaking in an interview in 2023, he noted that McCausland “has a great opportunity to become a big player for Rangers.” Sadly, that has not come true and is unlikely to.

At the time of writing (31/03/2025), McCausland is valued at £1.3m by Transfermarkt and this means that he is worth even less than Hagi and Lawrence, despite having a contract through to the summer of 2027.

This illustrates his struggles on the pitch this season because he is deemed to be worth even less than players who are set to be free agents later this year.

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It is now down to the 49ers to finally and ruthlessly ditch the young dud, because he is not showing signs of progress at Ibrox, when the summer transfer window opens for business, with a view to replacing him with an upgrade by dipping into the market.

Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi could be in line to earn as much as PKR 4.5 million a month as a retainer

Osman Samiuddin04-Aug-2023Pakistan’s players are set to receive “historic” increases in their new central contracts, even as negotiations on their participation in overseas T20 leagues continue. Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi, in the top category of contracts, could be in line to earn as much as PKR 4.5 million (USD 15,900 approx) a month as a retainer, four times as much as was on offer to top players in last year’s contracts.The new contracts are likely to do away with last year’s format where red- and white-ball players were split, and return to previous years with four different categories of players. Babar, Rizwan and Afridi, as captain and cross-format stars, will be in category A.Category B players are in line to receive in the region of PKR 3 million (USD 10,600 approx), while those in category C and D will get between PKR 0.75-1.5 million (USD 2650-5300 approx). The retainer values, if signed off on, represent the biggest increase in years, as part of an overall offering that was, according to officials, “historic”.The hike is offset somewhat by the sharp depreciation of the Pakistan rupee in the last year, as well as an economy in which inflation has been spiralling out of control. But even accounting for that, the retainer increase is more than double, at least across the top category. It also comes a year before the ICC’s new revenue distribution model kicks in, in which the PCB’s annual earnings of PKR 9.6 billion approx (USD 34 million) are more than double what they were over the last ICC rights cycle.Related

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That will make a significant difference for players who have been among the lowest paid internationally, a position exacerbated by often restrictive policies around playing in foreign T20 leagues. Pakistan’s players are not allowed to play in the IPL and their participation in other leagues has been subject traditionally to changing policies each time a new administration comes in.Only last year, leading players delayed signing the contracts because they were unhappy with the restrictive terms around playing in leagues, under the then administration of Ramiz Raja. That was the second time since 2019 that players had expressed unhappiness with terms, which is as close to a labour dispute as is possible in a landscape without a players’ association.The number of leagues players will be allowed to participate in next year has not yet been finalised but is part of ongoing negotiations. As things stand, players in the top two categories are to be allowed one league other than the PSL, with those in the lower categories to be allowed more than one.But there is likely to be flexibility on the issue and that clause could change by the time the contracts are finalised. Usman Wahla, the PCB’s international director, and more recently Misbah-ul-Haq, as an advisor to Zaka Ashraf, have been leading discussions, talking to a group of senior players.Importantly, there is a recognition within the PCB that players who are not a part of these leagues are missing out on big, potentially life-changing earnings. In some cases, senior players in demand on the league circuit could make two to three times more per year from league deals than they do now.There is also an acknowledgement that, in terms of planning, the league circuit needs to be treated as a separate 12-month calendar and players’ commitments worked out accordingly. Najam Sethi, Ashraf’s predecessor as board head, had also been planning a more open policy with regard to leagues and had been negotiating with the ILT20 about the participation of Pakistan players this season.The ILT20 was a particularly thorny issue last season, the PCB demanding a fee from the league for each player who took part. Part of that was also because the ILT20 took place in a busy home season for Pakistan in which their best players were bound to be taking part.Domestic contracts will also be presented to players soon, with likely increased retainers as well as the prospect of enhanced earnings by playing in two first-class tournaments, one for regional teams and one for department-based sides.Final discussions are due to take place with players over the weekend, the results of which will be presented to Ashraf early next week.

انتهت أحداث الشوط الأول بين تشيلسي وباريس سان جيرمان بتقدم كبير للبلوز بثلاثية نظيفة، على ملعب ميتلايف في نهائي كأس العالم للأندية.

وجاءت أهداف تشيلسي عن طريق كول بالمر الذي سجل ثنائية في الدقيقتين 22 و30، وأحرز جواو بيدرو الهدف الثالث في الدقيقة 43 بصناعة من بالمر.

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وعلى الرغم من فشل الأندية الإنجليزية مثل مانشستر سيتي وليفربول وآرسنال وأستون فيلا في التغلب على باريس سان جيرمان فقد نجح تشيلسي حتى الآن في تسجيل ثلاث أهداف في شوط واحد فقط.

وحقق كول بالمر إحصائية رائعة مع تشيلسي حيث وصل حتى الآن لثماني مساهمات خلال 6 نهائيات فقط، بعد أن سجل هدفين وصنع هدفًا.

وأصبح كول بالمر أول لاعب إنجليزي يسجل ثنائية في نهائي كأس العالم للأندية، وثالث إنجليزي يسجل في نهائي كأس العالم للأندية بعد واين روني في 2008 وفيل فودين في 2023.

ولم يتلق مرمى باريس سان جيرمان قبل مباراة اليوم سوى هدف واحد في نهائي كأس العالم للأندية، ليسجل تشيلسي في المباراة النهائية 3 أهداف في 43 دقيقة.

جدير بالذكر أن تشيلسي صعد للمباراة النهائية بعد فوزه ضد فلومينيسي بهدفين نظيفين، بينما تأهل باريس سان جيرمان بعد اكتساحه ريال مدريد برباعية نظيفة.

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O Palmeiras e a Puma lançarão na próxima terça-feira (20), data em que se comemora o “Dia do Palmeiras”, uma camisa oficial exclusiva para os inscritos no programa Avanti. A comercialização será apenas na Palmeiras Store.com e nas lojas físicas da Palmeiras Store.

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– Criar uma camisa exclusiva para os sócios Avanti é uma forma de retribuir todo o apoio que eles têm dado ao Palmeiras, seja marcando presença nos jogos, seja investindo mensalmente no programa para ajudar o clube. É uma enorme satisfação disponibilizar este item histórico para os nossos quase 90 mil Avantis. Juntos, faremos um Palmeiras cada vez mais forte – disse Leila Pereira, presidente do Verdão.

– Em nosso calendário anual de ações com o clube, algumas camisas simbolizam momentos especiais – afirmou Sebastián Diaz, CEO da Puma Brasil.

– Com a nova camisa criada exclusivamente para sócios Avanti, podemos prestigiar os torcedores e prestar uma verdadeira homenagem a um momento icônico da história do Palmeiras – completou o executivo da fornecedora.

Cada sócio Avanti poderá comprar somente uma camisa por CPF, ou seja, caso o torcedor adquira o produto pela Palmeiras Store.com, ele não conseguirá outro em alguma loja física. Garantindo um manto em uma unidade da Palmeiras Store, também não será possível ter mais um pela Palmeiras Store.com. O clube adotou esse critério para atender o máximo de Avantis possível, pois a quantidade é limitada.