☕️🌦️⚽️ Good morning everyone! 29 goals in 6 games, are you not entertained?! These quarterfinals have not disappointed, and the good news? We still have two more days of European soccer between Champions League tonight and Europa League tomorrow and it would be a real shame if you were still neglecting the multi-cast option from the Paramount+ app 😉😉

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Champions League
A Dramatic European Night

⚽🥇 PSG manage to get revenge for “La Remontada”. Ex Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique, led PSG to a comeback against a 10 man Barcelona squad after Aurajo got a red card in the 29th minute. The Barcelona squad put on a good showing but eventually were no match to a fast paced PSG with quality players like Dembele and of course, one of the best in the world, Mbappe. At this point, it’s impressive how the Catalans manage to give up leads in European competition. Check out the full highlights here.

👨‍🎨⬆️ A rollercoaster in Dortmund. An unreal matchup between Dortmund and Atletico Madrid had both teams thinking at some point in the match that they were without a doubt going through to the Semifinals. The game ultimately ended with Dortmund winning 4-2 (5-4 on aggregate), all thanks to a dramatic turnaround with 2 goals scored in 2 minutes. Check out the highlights here.

Wednesday ICYMI

UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final

English Premier League

Italian Serie A

La Liga

World
Clubs’ World Cup Takes Form

🌐🔜 When one door closes, another one opens, or so found out FC Barcelona after their UCL exit at the hands of Paris Saint Germain. Their lost not only sees them out of Europe’s most prestigious tournament, but also to next year’s FIFA Club World Cup in the United States. Albeit, Atletico’s Champions League exit the after a 4-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund, with Barca’s loss, they’ve secured their spot in the Club World Cup.

• The Club World Cup was newly revamped to include 32-teams

• Europe will have 12 teams including title winners of Champions League in the prior four seasons and high-ranked based based on their overall competition results the current period

• The past three Champions League winners - Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Manchester City. Plus high ranked clubs, Bayern Munich, PSG, Inter Milan, Porto, Dortmund, Benfica, Juventus,and now Atletico.

• The last European entry will be either Arsenal, if it wins this Champions League edition, or Salzburg as countries are limited by FIFA to two entires unless they have more than two continental champions

• FIFA expects to pay tens of millions of dollars prize money to each team at a tournament that will be missing European powers like Barcelona, Manchester United, Liverpool, and AC Milan.

🌎️👀 It’s a party in the USA, but this is not an open invite! The Club World Cup invites participating teams from the rest of FIFA’s confederations: CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, CAF, OFC, and AFC. As it stands 2026’s Club World Cup will set the stage for:

• Three Brazilian teams- Flamengo, Palmeiras and Fluminense have qualified as Copa Libertadores winners since 2021. Argentina’s storied rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors as high-ranked teams among CONMEBOL’s quota of six entries. The last of South America will be decided on Nov. 30 with the champion of Copa Libertadores.

• Seattle Sounders and Mexican teams Leon and Monterrey will be joined by another team from the CONCACAF region. The Champions Cup final is set for June 2. Nonetheless another U.S. team should qualify as part of FIFA’s tradition to include the host nation’s champion.

• AFC’s participants Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds are set. While Egypt’s Al Ahly and Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca have punched their place on behalf of CAF. Auckland City of New Zealand will represent Oceania’s confederation.

Quick Bites 🍕

French President puts pressure on Clubs Macron tells Madrid: Send Mbappé to Olympics

Bellingham tells truth about Spain

Wednesday Predictions

Teammates fighting for the PK

Matches to Catch

UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final

UEFA Europa League Quarter-Final

UEFA Europa Conference League Quarter-Final

AFC Champions League Semi-Final

English WSL

Brazil Serie A

Banter of the day

Football, by the fans for the fans

In search of a pub? Ever find yourself in a new city and are desperately searching for a local soccer pub? Who would have thought that the premier league took time out of their day to create a bar finder. There really is nothing better than catching an early premier league game on the weekends with fellow fans of the game, and finding that bar that will actually have the game sound on just got that much easier.

USA Bar Finder. Bar finder, aka Intern Jose’s nickname in college. Easy to use search platform on the premier leagues website. It has most major cities included, and they’re even accepting updates to their list if you email them at [email protected]

Find your local soccer pub here.