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Welcome in to latest edition of ESPN FC.

I'm Dan Thomas. joined the studio today by

Ali Moreno and Ashaki Hissop. The Club World Cup will see Real Madrid's first game tomorrow

there in action against Al-Hila. Of course, the first game in which Chavez Alonso will

be in charge of Madrid. For more on this, let's welcome in, shall we? Alex Kirkland.

Now it's barely noticeable, Alex's delay,

so don't worry if there is a slight pause,

it's all very much under control.

Alex, you're at Chabby Alonso's press conference today.

What was the big takeaway from it?

Yeah, that's right, Dan, you join me here from the press conference room at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium,

a long and really quite interesting presser from Jabby Alonso.

Talking about all sorts of different topics and the big sort of questions from a lot of people,

well, what have you done, what have you seen in terms of what you need to change about this team to implement in this team in the

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