River Plate opened their Club World Cup campaign with a 3-1 win over Urawa Red Diamonds on Tuesday, with goals from Facundo Colidio, Sebastian Driussi and Maxi Meza enough to see off a spirited challenge from the Japanese side.

Future Real Madrid player Franco Mastantuono had moments of brilliance in River Plate's first Club World Cup match.

Referees have always faced scrutiny with VAR since it was introduced – and they’ve had no shortage of controversy in South America. Anderson Daronco has been an international referee

Alexis Sanchez has had a poor season at Udinese where he had hardly had any prominence or game time. He still feels he has a couple of good seasons in him. His preference is to stay somewhere in