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[jamesinclair]

I hate making OTs but the tournament kicks off in an hour and no one else seems to be doing it....

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup


What is it? Its like a mini-world cup, held the year before the world cup with 8 teams.

Its so the host country can practice crowd control etc in their new stadiums. The participating teams also get to try out lineups and such as they attempt to qualify for the world cup. Aside from Tahiti, all these teams will be in the world cup next year.

Who are the teams?
The winners of each continental cup....ie, the EURO, the Gold Cup etc. + the host and the winner of the last world cup.



BRAZIL
SPAIN
JAPAN
MEXICO
URUGUAY
TAHITI < First ever big stage appearance
ITALY
NIGERIA

The squads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_FIFA_Confederations_Cup_squads

Is it worth watching?

Yup, its high quality soccer. In 2009, the USA almost blew up the planet as they narrowly lost to Brazil in the final, after beating Spain. This will also be the first big tournament with magic goal line technology.



Where is it?

Brazil, the hosts are...

Belo Horizonte
Brasilia
Fortaleza
Recife
Rio
Salvador



Tournament kicked off on June 15th

Brazil 3 vs 0 Japan

16th

Mexico 1 vs 2 Italy
Spain 2 vs 1 Uruguay

17th

Tahiti 1 vs 6 Nigeria

18th: No games.

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Brazil - Mexico 4pm local time
Italy - Japan 7pm local time

Games to air on ESPN and Univision in the US

Live, free online streaming by Univision

http://futbol.univision.com/90-dias-de-delirio/partidos-en-vivo/

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Did you really have the post the OT in Portugese?

: /

 

[spidye]

Did you really have the post the OT in Portugese?

: /

wat?

only the title is in portugese. what's wrong with it?

 

[The_Hitcher89]

No Coutz, no watch.

 

[DominoKid]

Ney-maaaaaaaaar.

That is all.

 

[Messi]

Is Messi playing?

 

[Blablurn]

Better than nothing these days :/

 

[Face it Tiger..]

wat?

only the title is in portugese. what's wrong with it?

Yes the title, I'm just nitpicking.

 

[FootballFan]

Neymar magic pls!

 

[xbhaskarx]

Rooting for Mexico... to do just well enough that they don't fire their coach.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Don't much like any of the teams playing aside from Japan and Tahiti

 

[Fry]

There's no way we're winning this.

 

[Broder Salsa]

I'm cheering for Tahiti.

and then Italy, cause fuck Uruguay, Spain and Brazil.

 

[WJD]

Would like to see Japan do well. Quite an exciting team at the moment.

 

[jamesinclair]

Rooting for Mexico... to do just well enough that they don't fire their coach.

Mexico cant even beat costa rica these days.

Were so fucked.



(But we always beat Brazil, so that would be nice)

 

[Tecl0n]

Brazil should win, so they'd stand no chance at the World Cup.

 

[FootballFan]

For all the Tahiti supporters.

PROMO! HYPE!

 

[Broder Salsa]

For all the Tahiti supporters.

PROMO! HYPE!

Listen to that fucking music right there.

 

[SummitAve]

I don't really know anything about Tahiti, but I didn't think they'd be able to field an internationally competitive team. Definitely rooting for them.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Watching one of the games on WATCH ESPN.

 

[clemenx]

How on earth did New Zealand lose in OFC?

 

[Verano]

Mexico cant even beat costa rica these days.

Were so fucked.



(But we always beat Brazil, so that would be nice)

Mexico doesn't do well in bunkers at all however Italy doesn't look like a bunker team...they actually play futbol unlike the rest of CONCACAF teams

 

[rvy]

I'd be impressed at the thread title if I didn't know it's copied straight from Wikipedia.

 

[Clegg]

Teams for Brazil vs Japan

Japan: KAWASHIMA, HONDA, NAGATOMO, UCHIDA, ENDO, KIYOTAKE, OKAZAKI, KAGAWA, KONNO, HASEBE, YOSHIDA

Brazil: JULIO CESAR, 2 DANI ALVES, 3 THIAGO SILVA, 4 DAVID LUIZ, 6 MARCELO, 9 FRED, 10 NEYMAR, 11 OSCAR, 17 LUIZ GUSTAVO, 18 PAULINHO, HULK

 

[Blablurn]

Teams for Brazil vs Japan

Japan: KAWASHIMA, HONDA, NAGATOMO, UCHIDA, ENDO, KIYOTAKE, OKAZAKI, KAGAWA, KONNO, HASEBE, YOSHIDA

Brazil: JULIO CESAR, 2 DANI ALVES, 3 THIAGO SILVA, 4 DAVID LUIZ, 6 MARCELO, 9 FRED, 10 NEYMAR, 11 OSCAR, 17 LUIZ GUSTAVO, 18 PAULINHO, HULK

WHERE IS NAKAMURA???

 

[Ezalc]

Obligatory Brasilian cheering for Brasil team. Also want any team that hasn't won a world cup yet to win.

 

[survivor]

Totally forgot this thing starts today. First match looks like it will be fun.

 

[xbhaskarx]

.

 

[criesofthepast]

Hoping Italy actually show up and take this tourny seriously for once.

 

[Jokab]

Teams for Brazil vs Japan

Japan: KAWASHIMA, HONDA, NAGATOMO, UCHIDA, ENDO, KIYOTAKE, OKAZAKI, KAGAWA, KONNO, HASEBE, YOSHIDA

Brazil: JULIO CESAR, 2 DANI ALVES, 3 THIAGO SILVA, 4 DAVID LUIZ, 6 MARCELO, 9 FRED, 10 NEYMAR, 11 OSCAR, 17 LUIZ GUSTAVO, 18 PAULINHO, HULK

Honda on left back? What the?

 

[AlexBasch]

Hoping for Mexico to get utterly destroyed, getting the coach sacked and them not qualifying for the World Cup.

This will be delicious.

Also yeah, isn't Honda supposed to be a CAM? o_0

 

[jamesinclair]

I'd be impressed at the thread title if I didn't know it's copied straight from Wikipedia.

Meuuuuu!

Não tudo e copy-paste.

----


It appears that Univision will be streaming the game live and for free on their website

http://futbol.univision.com/90-dias-de-delirio/partidos-en-vivo/

Fuck you ESPN. Univision blows you away.



(unless the stream cuts off at kickoff)

 

[Clegg]

Honda on left back? What the?

Hoping for Mexico to get utterly destroyend, getting the coach sacked and them not qualifying for the World Cup.

This will be delicious.

Also yeah, isn't Honda supposed to be a CAM? o_0

Honda isn't playing as a full back.

This is just the order of players I took down from a journo on twitter. He'll still be playing as an attacking midfielder.

 

[Nemesis121]

For all the Tahiti supporters.

PROMO! HYPE!

The level of competition is shit, they will get steam rolled...but i will root for a under dog...

 

[Sviatoslav]

Calling it now: Hulk MVP

 

[IceCold]

I was wondering why Italy was in it. I guess it's because Spain has been winning everything.

 

[Kurtofan]

Allez Tahiti!

Spoiler

RIP

 

[TTOOLL]

big protest outside the stadium, nice!

 

[K1LLER7]

Dem boos

 

[brokenbeans]

Ah okay an OT guess I'll watch it here

 

[Lunchbox]

isnt it neogaf policy to post in english?

fuck off with the spanish


go shinjiJapan

 

[Mr Cola]

Just how good is Neymar meant to be?

 

[Nesotenso]

How on earth did New Zealand lose in OFC?

whoever gets 4th in CONCACAF will likely beat NZ to go to Brazil

 

[Messi]

isnt neogaf policy to post in english?

fuck off with the spanish

Hey now

 

[xbhaskarx]

Calling it now: Hulk MVP

 

[Chris R]

Didn't even know this was a thing. Just hope we don't end up with a Spain/Italy final

 

[DominoKid]

The 1952 retrospective they just showed was hilarious. Brazil is about to relive that next year.

 

[Kurtofan]

How on earth did New Zealand lose in OFC?

They lost to New Caledonia, their biggest rival in the region.

 

[Peco]

isnt it neogaf policy to post in english?

fuck off with the spanish


go shinjiJapan

ain't that portuguese?

 

[ty_hot]

Dem boos

Well deserved.