It’s taken time for the Club World Cup to build brand awareness, but opening weekend drew huge crowds in Miami, NYC and Los Angeles.

When the ball gets kicked off the center circle of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, the United States will go down in history as the first host of the most important soccer tournament created this century.

As the United States prepares to host the revamped 32-team FIFA Club World Cup, executives from Europe's top teams see an opportunity to definitively break into the soccer world's lone holdout.