Corinthians conquers the world

Corinthians 1 Chelsea FC 0. The team from São Paulo, Brazil, conquers the World Club Championship in Japan this Sunday and internationalizes what is already an institution in Latin America and which intends to become a mark on the world soccer map. The only goal of the game came from the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero after 68 minutes.

This is the second time that Corinthians has won the World Club Championship - the first was in the year 2000 and comes after victory in the 2012 edition of Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian Championship in 2011. Tite, the team coach, does not intend to rest on his laurels. Indeed, the club has set its sights on emulating Manchester United.

Edu Gaspar, the Director of Football at Corinthians, stated after the game that Corinthians in future needs to be at the top of the Brazilian Championship and the semi-finals at least of Copa Libertadores as a question of routine, citing what happened at Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson as an example.

Corinthians aims to become a worldwide brand in football, gaining fans all over the world for what is today the team with the most support all over Brazil.

If Paolo Guerrero settled the scoreline with his header in the 68th minute of the game, it was also the goalkeeper Cássio who kept a clean sheet with five world-class saves.

CORINTHIANS: Cássio; Alessandro, Chicão, Paulo André and Fábio Santos; Ralf and Paulinho; Jorge Henrique, Danilo and Emerson (Wallace); Guerrero (Martínez)

Team coach: Tite

CHELSEA: Cech; Ivanovic (Azpilicueta), Cahill, David Luiz and Ashley Cole; Ramires and Lampard; Moses (Oscar), Juan Mata and Hazard (Marin); Fernando Torres

Team coach: Rafael Benítez

The victory of Corinthians also sends out a clear message to sports directors at football clubs: Tite started off by having some problems establishing himself and his game-plan at Corinthians, and went on to conquer the world. The bottom line is stability.

Aleksei Federov

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