FIFA staff based in Miami wanted the 2025 Club World Cup to lean more heavily on smaller MLS stadiums, hoping FIFA would avoid empty seats and that hot-ticket events would boost revenues.

The best teams in the world will be in the United States this summer as the FIFA Club World Cup will bring teams from reigning Champions League champions Paris Saint-Germain to the only amateur side in the competition in Auckland City FC from New Zealand.

Monday action at the Club World Cup in the United States sees Chelsea beginning their campaign against CONCACAF play in winners LAFC, an MLS side. Two of the titans of South American football also begin their journey at the CWC,

An immigration crackdown is under way in the United States at a time when international tourists are arriving into the country for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025. The tournament, taking place in 11 American cities including at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, kicks off on June 14.

In a now-deleted social media post, United States Customs and Border Protection exclaimed its agents would be “suited and booted ready to provide security for the first round of games”,

We might still be one year out from the 2026 World Cup, but FIFA president Gianni Infantino is already feeling the energy from sheer anticipation of the world's biggest tournament coming to Canada, Mexico and the United States next summer.

To preview the tournament, The Post caught up with Cobi Jones, a legend of the U.S. men’s national team who knows a thing or two about big soccer games on American soil. Jones, 54, made 164 appearances for the USMNT, including all four matches at the iconic 1994 World Cup hosted in the States.

ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection assisting with security at major sporting events is nothing new but could have a chilling effect on fans