For at least the last year, Germany and Bayer Leverkusen star Florian Wirtz has been playing with the assurance that whenever he decides to move on, he will have his pick of the top clubs in Europe.

Some of Europe and South America's elite soccer powerhouses are coming to Philly next year for the FIFA Club World Cup. Why it matters: It's a first-of-its-kind tournament that puts Philly in the international spotlight a year before the city hosts six World Cup matches.

It was not foreseeable to have such a dark moment for two of the most dominant teams in Europe. Real Madrid and Manchester City are experiencing, for different reasons, a deep crisis from which