Paris St Germain picked up right where they left off in their first match since winning the Champions League last month, turning what was billed as a blockbuster into a 4-0 rout of Atletico Madrid in their Club World Cup opener.

The midday match, timed to accommodate viewers in Europe, drew 80,619 people to the sun-soaked Rose Bowl in Pasadena — site of the 1994 World Cup final where Brazil beat Italy on penalties — on a day when the toasty conditions led to water breaks in both halves.

by the way – and selected the youngest team in their history in a cup tie in January; just 21 years and 327 days. PSG’s youth policy should be applauded, and they are also good at engaging ...

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One-time PSG full-back Maxwell told RMC radio recently: “We had so many good players but there was this obsession with winning the Champions ... against Benfica. That team of Laszlo Kubala ...