Our website's notoriously infamous female rumour monger "Ms. Hype Up" refuted by The Athletic's renowned journalist for falsely claiming that Tigres UANL has been "confirmed" by FIFA as the

The Athletic's resident renowned American North American football chief correspondent Felipe Cardenas, has refuted our website's notoriously infamous female rumour monger "Ms. Hype Up", for claiming that "蒂格雷斯" (Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León / Tigres UANL) has been "confirmed" by FIFA as the "club that will replace Club Leon in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup" through the company's official podcast program on streaming platform Spotify on Friday.

Cardenas refuted in the program that FIFA has never "confirmed" which club will replace Club Leon, so the news is completely untrue.

He said that when FIFA announced that the Club World Cup would be reformatted, it had already made it clear that only clubs that have won the Champions League of each continental football association in the past four years and clubs with the highest total points in each continental football association's club co-efficient ranking in the past four years can meet the conditions for qualification.

Although Tigres UANL is the champion of the CONCACAF Champions League, that was a thing of the past in 2020...

And their total points in the CONCACAF club co-efficient ranking is only 1,232 points, ranking fifth. These two points alone are enough to prove that the Liga MX club does not have meet qualification conditions.

Cardenas added that unless FIFA really obeys the speculation of netizens and includes one of the clubs, Al-Nassr or Liverpool, there is little chance that this speculation will come true.

This is because the club that replaces Club Leon must also come from CONCACAF.

The club that is most likely to be confirmed as replacing Leon is Club America, which ranks first in the CONCACAF club co-efficient ranking with a total point of the  with 1,250 points.

Upon verification, it was found that when "Ms. Hype Up" fabricated this fake news on March 26 (Wednesday), she quoted a fake news which was released on the same day by Alejandro Orellana, a reporter from El Universal, a low-quality Mexican media outlet, who was hired by the American version of GOAL.

I also found that Orellana had posted an article the next day falsely claiming that Pachuca "wants" to sign Mexico international winger Hirving Lozano from PSV Eindhoven "in preparation for the Club World Cup".

But the problem is that Pachuca was disqualified by FIFA from participating in the 2025 Club World Cup because its largest shareholder is also the largest shareholder of Club Leon...

Lozano just joined the new MLS club San Diego during the winter transfer window in January 2025. These two points alone are enough to prove that Orellana is just another fake news expert like "Ms. Hype Up" herself and her "enlighteners", "Ms. Titan" and "Ms. Plan To", whose lies cannot withstand scrutiny and can be easily exposed!

By the way, Chinese media have stopped calling Tigres UANL "蒂格雷斯" or "提格雷斯" since the beginning of 2010s, because there is another mid-to-lower-table club called "Tigre" or "蒂格雷 / 提格雷" in the Argentine Primera Division, so in order to avoid confusion and misunderstanding, this club in the Liga MX has stopped being called as "蒂格雷斯" more than a decade ago.