[AFP/YONHAP] The championship trophy for the FIFA Club World Cup will hit Korea early next month during its global tour, the country's lone ... Football Confederation (AFC) and the lone Korean ...

It is the first country outside of the three host nations — the U.S., Mexico and Canada — to qualify for the event. The win moved Japan to 6-1-0 in Group C of the third round of AFC qualification.

The Champions Trophy “is a huge positive for the entire country,” said Basit Ali, 36, who watched the opening match from a teashop in Peshawar near the Afghan border. “I pray that Pakistan ...