Club World Cup draw LIVE: Chelsea, Man City and more find out group opponents

River Plate into Group E, Fluminense into Group F.

Manchester City are the first Premier League side out and they’re into Group G.

Flamengo go Group D, Real Madrid into Group C, which leaves Bayern Munich heading into Group C as the last of the pot 1 teams.

Ivanka Trump is now on stage. This is a lot of people across two stages. The first ball is picked out and we’re underway with the draw which I’m going to be honest with you, has been a ridiculous shambles until now.

Palmeiras are out and into Group A.

PSG are out next and they are in Group B. That’s how we proceed.

Ok on stage we’ve now also got Leotta Diletta, Teofilo Cubilas and a couple of others on stage…and then we cut to another stage entirely elsewhere which looks like they are doing the actual draw. Odd. Arsene Wenger, Youri Djorkaeff, Maxi Rodriguez and others are there to do that side.

Also, Del Piero welcomed people on stage with the comment of “another wave of immigrants,” which …could be interpreted in several ways.

Right, Alessandro del Piero is on stage. “Here’s how it will work,” he says, and a video starts.

We’re getting rules now, Americanized explanations but still rules for the draw, so presumably after half an hour we’re getting to why we’re here.

Pots are detailed, including who can and can’t be drawn together – if you missed it earlier, we’ve explained it below.

No clubs from same nation in each group and so on.

Pot 1 teams go into groups A-H first, then constraints over seedings, Uefa-Conmebol pairings and so on.

Here, get as excited as Gianni over the Golden Reveal.

Oh, there’s more. The trophy comes with a key. Infantino puts the key in the trophy and…it sort of opens up and spins into two pieces. Splendid craftsmanship no doubt.

Do we even need the football? Let’s just have a month’s worth of talking and back-patting and name-dropping and showing off amounts of money, that would be just magnificent.

Infantino is genuinely excellent at each of those after all.

Aha, some relevance. A new trophy is being unveiled! Gianni Infantino left the stage about 30 seconds ago, now he comes back on stage with Ronaldo – the real one – to unveil the trophy.

A dark cover is lifted off and the new Club World Cup trophy is displayed – it’s pretty big, very round and looks to be engraved with different areas of the world and a lot of other stuff.

“This is completely new trophy and I’ve asked why they didn’t do this one before! It’ll be amazing, 32 teams to be the best, big money for the clubs and this beautiful trophy. For the captains to lift it will be tough!” Ronaldo says.

“It’s a unique, iconic trophy,” Infantino says. “Different languages, the history is written there, the moon positions of the first matches and names of all clubs and confederations – everything is engraved for entenity.”

Now the promo video, the intro with teams and goals and all that jazz, with a dramatic voice overlay telling us what to expect. New rivalries will be forged, places in history will be claimed. A star studded cast battling for eternal glory. So on and so forth.

Honestly, we’ll be there soon with the actual draw. Presumably.

Oh my word. Infantino introduces a special video which starts with…Donald Trump.

“I know him as ‘Johnny’, he’s a winner and a president, I’m a president, soccer is going through the roof as everyone knows. Barron is a very big fan and a very good player,” the incoming US chief tells us.

“I was very responsible in getting [the World Cup],” he adds.

Back on stage, Infantino thanks Ivanka Trump and family for being in place.

Perhaps we’ll get to the football shortly.

“Something was missing,” Infantino says. “Something to show us who the best club in the world is.”

Isn’t that what the InterContinental Cup was for and all the smaller versions of this competition? Apparently not.

“Now we have it,” he assures us.

Infantino thanks DAZN – the broadcasters for the competition – for their “historic” agreement. The matches will all be screened live and free to air.