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FIFA president Gianni Infantino says the 'global era of club football has started' with the CWC's success
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00:00If you want the title at the beginning, I don't know, as we are in Trump Tower, the golden era of Global Club Football has started.
00:10Maybe we can start with that, but we can say definitely that this FIFA Club World Cup has been a huge, huge, huge success.
00:22Well, when we heard first some time ago, even some months ago, some weeks ago, it will never happen, well, it did happen, and it happened successfully.
00:32We heard nobody will come to the games, and we had, with the final tomorrow, almost 2.5 million spectators in the stadiums.
00:44This is around 40,000 per match.
00:48We heard as well that financially it would not work, it would be a flop, nobody is interested.
00:57Well, I can say that we generated over 2 billion, almost 2.1 billion revenues with this competition for 63 matches, sorry, that makes an average of 33 million US dollars per match.
01:16There is no other club competition in the world today that comes anywhere close to a value of 33 million US dollars per match.
01:28So, it is already the most successful club competition in the world from all different measurements.
01:35That's all right excellent.
01:35All right.

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