Club World Cup officials will use an accelerated semi-automated offside technology that will tell them to stop the game immediately if a player who is more than 10cm offside touches the ball.

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will be looking to impress their home crowd as the 21st Club World Cup gets underway with Group A action.

Host city side Inter Miami, led by Argentine legend Messi, played out an entertaining goalless again Egyptian giants Al Ahly to kick off the tournament.

With 12 European giants, six South American sides, five from North America, four from each of Africa and Asia as well as one from Oceania, a month-long festival of football is under way in the US!

Inter Milan forward Mehdi Taremi has been left stranded in Iran after failing to get a flight out of the country amid its conflict with Israel, a club source told Reuters, with Italian media reporting the 32-year-old will miss the Club World Cup.

However, the unexpected development of Israeli airstrikes have changed all of that.