According to journalist Melchor Ruiz, Real Madrid are furious with FIFA after their chaotic journey back to their team hotel in Palm Beach. The players and staff only arrived shortly after 5 a.m.,

RB Salzburg will face Real Madrid in this 2025 FIFA Club World Cup matchup on Thursday at Lincoln Financial Field.

Real Madrid is spectacle, in any season, in any stadium. So Los Blancos – 15 times champions of Europe and five times winners of this competition’s former iterations – drew the masses to South Philadelphia. And they did it for a game whose result, for a certain frame of reference, mattered.