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Name: Fluminense Football Club
\ NLocation: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
\ NStadium: Maracanã
\ NLeague: Brazilian championship
\ NQualification for the World Cup: 2023 Copa Libertadores winner \ n

The opponents of Borussias in their first group game (17/06, 12:00 p.m. local time / 6:00 p.m. CEST, Metlife Stadium) will be the four-time Brazilian champion Fluminense, the ranks of which are the former Brazil International and the Champions League winner Thiago Silva. On the evening of June 7, 2024, five thousand people packed the legendary Maracanã stadium to celebrate the return of the lost son and the world-class defender Thiago Silva with a huge light show and fireworks. Never before came so many fans in a stadium in Brazil to unveiled a footballer. The then 39-year-old central defender returned to the club of his youth after more than 15 years in Europe. There is also a well -known face from the Bundesliga in the Fluminense squad: Renato Augusto. The central midfielder is now 37 years old and returned to Rio over a year ago, the city of his birth. Between 2008 and 2012 he played for Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. \ N.

Fluminense, the oldest club in Rio de Janeiro, will be in Brazil during the World Cup in the middle of their home season. Her league games, which were to take place during the FIFA tournament, were postponed. Although Fluminense celebrated a big triumph in 2023 when she won the first Copa Libertadores title in its history, the club is no longer one of the leading lights in its domestic league. You have not won a league title since 2012 and have ended in the top three in the past 10 years. Through Fluminense's only participation in the World Club Championship in 2023, she reached the final, where you lost 4-0 against Manchester City. \ N

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Mamelodi Sundowns \ n

Name: Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club
\ NLocation: Pretoria, South Africa
\ NStage: Loftus Versfeld Stadium
\ NLeague: South African Premiership
\ NQualification for the Club World Championship: CAF -Ranking list \ n

A kit that consists of bright yellow shirts with a green equipment, combined with blue shorts and white socks \ u2013, may sound like the Brazilian national team, but it is actually the clothes of the South African record champions Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club, hence the nickname “The Brazilians”. Borussia Dortmund will compete against the South African outfit in her second group game at the FIFA Club World Cup (June 21, 9:00 p.m., 12:00 p.m. local time / 6:00 p.m.). The TQL stadium in Cincinnati will be the match place of establishment. The club is based in Pretoria and is the record champion. 15 league titles since the competition in 1996. They also increased the trophy in the season that has just ended. No other club has succeeded in becoming South African champions since the 2017/18 season. While Mamelodi dominates her domestic league, you won the African Champions League in 2016. However, the team is again in the final of the CAF Champions League this season. The first leg against Pyramid Egypt ended 1-1. \ n

The South African Club squad includes Tashreeq Matthews, who came to Borussia Dortmund in November 2018 as a 18-year-old Borussia Dortmund before he was borrowed to Utrecht and Helsingborg. He performed two appearances for the Black & Yellows in the Youth League before moving to Sweden permanently: he first came to Varberg and then switched to Sirius. In January 2024, the now 24-year-old returned to his home in South Africa and signed in the dotted line for Mamelodi Sundowns. The Linkenedinger achieved 21 appearances last season, scored five goals and delivered six templates. \ N

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Ulsan HD \ n

Name: Ulsan HD Football Club
\ NLocation: Ulsan, South Korea
\ NStadium: Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium
\ NLeague: K League 1
\ NQualification for the Club World Club: AFC ranking list \ n

Borussia Dortmund's final game of the group phase will be against Ulsan HD in the TQL Stadium in Cincinatti (25/06, 3:00 p.m. local time / 21:00 CEST). The five-time South Korean champion and two-time winners of the AFC Champions League won the Kleite title in 2024 for the third time in a row. The South Koreans will pause their domestic campaign for participating in the World Cup. Planned games have already been postponed. \ n

The club from Ulsan in the southeast of the country was founded in Incheon in the northwest of the Republic of Korea. The defense and ship module HD Hyundai Heavy Industries founded the team under the name Hyundai Horang-I in 1983.

Ulsan is one of the most successful teams in Korea, with the majority of her success in the recent past. The association has won three of its five titles in the South Korean league since 2022, while their victories in the Champions League of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) are not that far back in 2012 and 2020. The club took part in the World Club Championship in 2012 and 2020 and lost in the quarter-finals on both occasions. \ N

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