Atletico Madrid get their 2025 Club World Cup campaign underway on Sunday – and in the most difficult possible way. Diego Simeone’s side take on recently-crowned European champions Paris

Germain make their debut in the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup as they are set to face Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid, a match up between the two biggest teams of Group B. Though the European champions are expected to easily qualify for the next round,

Medina reported Wednesday that not everyone at Atlético was in favour of the younger Hernández's return, given his 2017 departure to Real Madrid and subsequent anti-Atleti behaviour since. Carlos Bucero, the club's director of football, had been Theo’s chief backer and was in favour of the move.