Yes, there are two soccer World Cups. The one you all know about and …

The Club World Cup. The itty-bitty little brother of the World Cup.

But the Club World Cup has something going for it:

It’s here. In Abu Dhabi.

Actually, it’s across the street from where I live.

This is the sixth Club World Cup. Though it hasn’t always gone by that name. But the idea always has been pretty much the same: Somehow or other round up the top club teams in the world and have a tournament to see who’s best.

Now, some would call that “the Champions League.” But that’s a bit Eurocentric, no? The game is played, professionally, on other continents. Though Europe doesn’t always notice.

The idea isn’t a bad one.

It’s the execution that’s a problem.

Where do you have it? How many teams? And the big one … when do you find the time to jam this event into the already overloaded club team schedules?

None of these questions have been answered to anyone’s satisfaction, really. But that hasn’t kept the event from going off for five consecutive years now, the previous four in Japan.

And this year (and next), the Club World Cup is in Abu Dhabi.

Here is how it works: The club champions from six continents. With the champs of Europe and South America seeded directly into the semifinals.

This year, that meant Barcelona from Europe and Estudiantes from South America.

With the other participants being Atlante of Mexico (North America), the Pohang Steelers of Korea (Asia), TP Mazembe of Congo (Africa) and Auckland City of New Zealand (Oceania). And the home country’s champion, Al Ahli, allowed to attempt to play in to the quarterfinals against Auckland City, representing the weakest of the regions.

So, three of the first four matches in the tournament were held at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, the home of local club Al Jazira — and across the street from where I now live.  The stadium is about 400 yards from where I’m sitting. Really. Big, beautiful building.

Sadly, however, I worked all the nights in question and, OK, I didn’t actually live within shouting distance of the stadium until last night — after the Club World Cup had come and gone from my neighborhood and moved to the other stadium being used for the competition.

This tournament has gone as the last four have: With Europe and South America reaching the finals. Barcelona took care of Atlante 3-1 in one semi, and Estudiantes eliminated Pohang 2-1 in the other, a semi-controversial match in which three Pohang players were red-carded, Estudiantes’ first goal came on a play that looked like the very definition of “offside” … and with Pohang’s Brazilian coach all but saying the referee’s sole goal was to make sure the Argentine team made the final.

Abu Dhabi loves to do international events, and really gets into them, but the early matches of this tournament were a tough sell. Africa vs. Asia? The team from Dubai against some semipro club from New Zealand?

The semifinals, however, picked up. Especially the Barca match. The UAE is a soccer-loving country (well, at least the Emiratis and the Western expats are), and they packed out the place for that semifinal — which was held at a different stadium. I talked to a colleague just before kickoff and he said, “I’m looking at something I’ve never seen in this country — a full stadium.”

The final on Saturday is a sellout and it, too, is at the “other” venue — Sheikh Zayed Stadium. Another colleague offered to sell his three tickets to the match, and I actually have the day off Saturday and offered to buy … but he already had moved them.

I think it is fair to say that Barcelona vs. Estudiantes will be the highest-caliber soccer match ever played in this country and probably in the whole Gulf area. Because both clubs figure to be playing hard, and both are quite good.

It would be a huge thing for South American soccer if Estudiantes could knock off Barcelona. So Estudiantes will be geeked up. And it would be bad for Barca to lose. So, yes, we expect that Messi, Iniesta, Pujols, et al, will be on the field for the Spanish side.

The Club World Cup could be a really big thing. Imagine a field of, say, 16 club teams, in four groups of four, playing over three weeks or so. Maybe six from Europe, three from South America,  two from North America, two from Africa, two from Asia,  one from Oceania.

It’s just finding three weeks on the calendar. Good luck with that.

Anyway, maybe a year from now, if we’re all still here … I can walk across the street and see somebody from Africa play somebody from Asia in the quarterfinals. To say I’ve been to both World Cups.