Chelsea, un club que no escatima en el gasto, anunció la adquisición de João Pedro el 2 de julio. Los seis veces campeones de la Liga Premier y dos veces campeones de Europa desembolsaron 60 millones de libras (82 millones de dólares) por el atacante.

João Pedro was a Brighton striker. Last decade, he spent eight years in the youth academy at Fluminense. On Tuesday, he beat Fluminense in a Club World Cup semifinal playing for Chelsea.

Rare is the day a player earns a first start for their new team in the semifinal of a competition despite being under contract with an entirely different club during the group stage, but leave it to the new-look Club World Cup to shoehorn a new quirk into the structured soccer calendar.