The goalkeeper and his Chelsea team-mates landed Stateside yesterday ahead of the start of the revamped Club World Cup. The Blues will undertake the first training session at our Pennsylvania group-stage base today as preparations step up for our opening game against LAFC on Monday in Atlanta.

After a successful end to our 2024/25 season – Enzo Maresca's side sealed a fourth-place finish in the Premier League to guarantee a return to the Champions League and also lifted the Conference League – Jorgensen is excited to return to action and is ready to help showcase why the Blues belong at top table of the world game.

‘I’m really looking forward to it,’ said Jorgensen. ‘It’s going to be a really good tournament. It’s the World Cup to be the best in the world, it’s always fun, so we will have a great time. Hopefully, we can win it.

‘It can be very important for us. We showed [our quality] this year in the Premier League against teams that were fighting in the Champions League. We even had two teams in the Europa League final, which shows the league is very tough.

‘I know and I am very confident we should be playing against these teams, and we have all the capability of doing that.’

Unlike the Premier League, the Club World Cup presents an unknown challenge against unfamiliar opponents. We have never shared a pitch with group-stage opponents LAFC or Esperance de Tunisie, and our history with Flamengo is restricted to a solitary friendly victory for Gianluca Vialli’s Blues in the Netherlands in 1998.

‘We will try to study them as much as we can in videos, and try to study all the players we are going to face.

‘We don’t know or maybe follow these teams as much as we do with other teams from Europe, so it’s definitely a bit harder, but we will study as much as we can off the pitch and try to do it on the pitch.’

The tournament will also have a hint of nostalgia for our goalkeeper. The last time the Blues visited the USA was last summer, for our 2024 pre-season tour. It was during that trip Stateside that Jorgensen completed his move from Villarreal and was officially unveiled as a Chelsea player.

His first appearance for the club even came at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta – coming on at half-time in a 3-0 friendly win over Club America – and we will return to that same venue for Monday’s first Club World Cup fixture against LAFC.

And Jorgensen reflected on his first year with the Blues before going back to the stadium where it all began.

‘It’s always a bit hard to come into a new team,’ Filip added. ‘You don’t know anyone, and you have to try to do your best to get to know people and to understand the playing style of a new team and a new coach.

‘It’s a lot. The first few months are hard, but when you settle down and you get to know everyone, it’s very nice. It’s been a really, really good time here so far. I’m enjoying it a lot and I always look forward to coming to training every day.

‘England is pretty similar to Sweden in many ways. I also lived in Spain for nine years by myself, so I know how to adapt. It’s been good. They told me the weather was going to be a lot worse, but it’s been nice!’

Hopefully, Filip continues enjoying life in England, weather and all, upon our return to this side of the Atlantic. But first and foremost, it is success in the USA that is on the minds of Jorgensen and his fellow Blues.

Chelsea's opening game against LAFC kicks off at 8pm UK time on Monday. You can watch that and every other game at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 live for free by signing up with DAZN here.