YOKOHAMA -- Sao Paulo beat Liverpool 1-0 to win the FIFA Club World Championship final at International Stadium Yokohama on Sunday, Mineiro's goal settling a game in which the Reds had three goals disallowed.
Liverpool's Luis Garcia (left) and Sao Paulo's Mineiro (right) jump for the ball in the first half of the Club World Championship final in Yokohama.
Mineiro coolly finished a three-man move in the 27th minute to give South American champion Sao Paulo its third world crown, but Liverpool was left to rue goals ruled out for Luis Garcia, Sami Hyppia and substitute Florent Sinama Pongolle amid a brilliant second-half display from player-of-the-tournament 'keeper Rogerio Ceni.