2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

The FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 ( English FIFA Confederations Cup 2013) was the seventh playout this intercontinental football competition for national teams under that name and under the care of FIFA. It was the ninth overall competition of its kind and was held from 15 to 30 June in Brazil instead. As first introduced in 2001 was the competition for the host as a dress rehearsal for a year later held there World Cup 2014. Brazil stood with the awarding of the World Cup thus established as host of the Confederations Cup.

During the event there was in Brazil to protests, which were directed against the " World Cup for the rich ' and billion cost of the major projects of the sports events. This led to serious clashes with the police.

• 4.1 Semi-finals
• 4.2 3rd place match
• 4.3 final

Venues

Played in six for the upcoming 2014 World Cup provided and modernized stadiums. It is noteworthy that no play in the most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo, took place because the local World Cup Stadium was still under construction at the time of the tournament.

Participant

For the competition, the following teams have qualified:

Brazil Brazil as host

Spain as world champions 20101

Japan Japan as Asia Champion 2011

Mexico as the winner of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2011

Uruguay Uruguay as the winner of the Copa America 2011

Tahiti Tahiti as the Oceania 2012

Italy Italy as a finalist of the European Championship 20121

Nigeria Nigeria as African champions 2013

Preliminary round

The draw took place in São Paulo on Saturday, December 1, 2012. The game plan was announced on 30 May 2012. The draw will host Brazil, World and European champions Spain and runners- up Italy and South American champions Uruguay, who occupied the highest places in the FIFA world rankings in November 2012, were placed in Pot 1. Japan, Mexico, Tahiti and the future African champions came in second pot addition Brazil has been defined as group head of group A and Spain as group head of Group B. Italy was set to Brazil in Group A and Uruguay to Spain in Group B to avoid early innerverbandliche games, and determines only the time of the Games by lot. All times are local (UTC -3); corresponds to the CEST minus 5 hours.

Group A

In Group A, the two most successful teams were Italy and Brazil, measured by the number -won world championship titles, drawn against each other.

Hosts Brazil won the group with three wins. 3-0 in the opening match against Japan was followed by a 2-0 win against Mexico. Since Italy had its first two games against Japan and Mexico won, the two teams played on the final day only to win the group, since they were already qualified for the semifinals. Brazil won the match and secured the top spot ahead of Italy. Brazil playmaker Neymar was chosen in all three games, "Man of the Match". The final match between Mexico and Japan, both at the time already been eliminated, ended 2-1 in favor of Mexico, who, occupying the third place group. Japan was fourth group devoid of points.

Group B

World champions Spain won, as well as Brazil, all three games. With the victory against Nigeria they were on their own in the first place. Although Uruguay lost the first game, but won on the second match, the match against Nigeria. By the final victory against Tahiti and with the help of the Spaniards, who won against Nigeria, Uruguay finished in second place. African champions Nigeria was eliminated against it. Although the team won against Tahiti, where they suffered the only goal of the Master of Oceania, but could not score after that. Tahiti left the tournament without point and with a goal difference of 1:24. The only goal was scored by Jonathan Tehau against Nigeria.

Final round

Semifinal

3rd Place Match

Final

Top scorers

Source: fifa.com; Own goals (ET ) are not specified in the official scorer, but can be found in the individual match reports

Awards

Referee

From the World Association following to be used in the tournament referees and assistants were nominated on May 13, 2013:

Match ball

As part of the draw on December 1, 2012, the game ball was presented. He bore the name Cafusa, a " combination of carnaval, samba futebol and (Carnival, football, samba ) " and was manufactured by adidas. The ball came at the FIFA Club World Cup 2012 are used.

Assistive

On February 19, 2013, FIFA decided at the tournament for the first time a goal-line use. Here, a system was used, which should review via video cameras, whether a ball had crossed the goal line. This was a signal to the referee to a receiving device that he wore on his wrist, transferred. The system is a combination of Goal Control and GoalRef technology dar.

Security concept

The games were protected by more than 54,000 police and soldiers. The expenditure on its newly acquired equipment amounted to 700 million euros.

Protests during the event

During the Confederations Cup began in Brazil protests against the billions of spending on major sporting projects such as football stadiums for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, against corruption (especially in the administration), against social injustice, increasing prices in public transport and unlawful police violence. These were the largest protests since the end of military dictatorship in the 1980s. On the evening of June 20 demonstrated approximately one million Brazilians in more than a hundred cities in the country. The largest demonstration, with some 300,000 protesters took place in Rio de Janeiro. According to figures of the official news agency " Agência Brasil " took on June 21, even almost two million people participated in 438 cities. The vast majority of the demonstrations have been completely peaceful. In some cases, such as in Rio escalated on 21 June demonstrations when police fired tear gas grenades at the protest. The police used a mounted units and armored vehicles and went brutally against the demonstrators. At least 44 people were injured in Rio, in Brasília more than 100; many rubber bullets the police. Then it came to street battles.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter took on June 19, in an exclusive interview with the Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo comment on the protests; numerous media quoted his sentence "Brazil has applied for this World Cup. We have not imposed the World Cup Brazil ". The criticism of the cost of the stadiums he could not understand; one should not use football to announce demands yet.

Brazil's soccer player, like Dante or Neymar, solidarity with the protesters.

On June 21, 2013 Brazil's President Rousseff promised in a nationally television address a "big contract" on a better Brazil.

Statistical features

• For the first time took with Spain, Italy and Brazil, three different winners in the last three World Cups.
• With Brazil, Italy, Spain and Uruguay for the first time participated in four former or current world champions. The previous record with three world champions came from the year 2005, when Argentina, Brazil and Germany participated. All four reached the semi-finals.
• In the opening game met with Brazil and Japan each other, the two teams who had qualified first and only at this time teams already for the 2014 World Cup.
• Tahiti was with room 138 in the FIFA world rankings to date, the lowest rated participants since the introduction of the world rankings. Previously, it was New Zealand in 1999 with room 102
• Andrea Pirlo and Diego Forlan completed in the group matches played her 100th international game.
• The Spain 10:0 on Tahiti was the highest ever victory of a team in the history of the Confederations Cup. The record for the highest-scoring game shares a lot with the 8:2 between Brazil and Saudi Arabia in 1999.
• The victories of Spain and Uruguay against Tahiti were the highest wins a different confederation and a European and South American team against an oceanic team.
• With 68 goals set a new record for the Total Goals was established.
• With Brazil wins for the first time a team at a FIFA tournament title three times in a row.

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

With the win, Brazil was able to improve in the FIFA world rankings 13 places and is now ranked number 9 and thus back into the top 10, with 223 points, the biggest point gain of the month was recorded. Italy could be improved by two places to rank 6 and Uruguay at seven places to rank 12. Although Spain lost points, but remains leader. In contrast, the excreted in the group stage teams lost positions: Mexico from rank 17 to 20, from Nigeria Rank 31 to 35, Japan from rank 32 to 37 and Tahiti by rank 138 to rank 154

Doping

About a month after the tournament was known a doping case. A player of Tahiti had been tested positive during an inspection on 23 June 2013. About the substance and the name of the actor, FIFA remained silent at first. On September 27, 2013 it was announced that the defender Vincent Simon is blocked due to a positive doping test during the match against Uruguay on June 23 in Recife until February 7, 2014.