FIFA Confederations Cup 2013

FIFA Confederations Cup 2013
FIFA Confederations Cup 2013
Number of nations	8th
winner	Brazil (4th title)
venue	Brazil
Opening game	June 15, 2013
Endgame	30th of June 2013
Games	16
Gates	68  (⌀: 4.25 per game)
spectator	804,659  (⌀: 50,291 per game)
Top scorer	Fernando Torres (5)
Best player	Neymar
Best goalkeeper	Júlio César
yellow cards	46  (⌀: 2.88 per game)
Yellow-red cards	3  (⌀: 0.19 per game)
Red cards	1  (⌀: 0.06 per game)

The FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 ( English: FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 ) was the seventh edition of this intercontinental football competition for national teams under this name and under the care of FIFA . It was the ninth competition of its kind and took place in Brazil from June 15 to 30 . As for the first time in 2001 , the host's competition was a dress rehearsal for the 2014 World Cup, which will take place there a year later . With the award of the World Cup, Brazil was therefore also the host of the Confederations Cup . For the third time in a row, Brazil won the competition. In the final, the Brazilians won surprisingly 3-0 against the world and European champions from Spain, who had dominated world football in previous years.

During the event there were protests in Brazil , which were also directed against the "World Cup for the Rich" and billions in spending on major sports event projects. There were serious arguments with the police.

Venues

The game was played in six modernized stadiums planned for the upcoming 2014 World Cup. None of the games took place in the most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo , as the World Cup stadium there was still under construction at the time of the tournament.

Brasília	Fortaleza	Recife	Belo Horizonte Salvador da Bahia Recife Brasília Fortaleza Rio de Janeiro 2013 venues in Brazil
Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha	Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo	Arena Pernambuco
Capacity: 70,100	Capacity: 64,200	Capacity: 44,000
Belo Horizonte	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador da Bahia
Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto	Maracanã	Arena Fonte Nova
Capacity: 66,800	Capacity: 77,000	Capacity: 56,500

Attendees

The following national teams had qualified for the competition:

 Brazil as host

 Spain as world champion 2010 ¹

 Japan as Asian champions 2011

 Mexico as the winner of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2011

 Uruguay as the winner of the 2011 Copa America

 Tahiti as Oceania Champion 2012

 Italy as finalist of the European Championship 2012 ¹

 Nigeria as Africa champion 2013

¹ Since European champions Spain were already qualified as world champions, the defeated finalist Italy received the starting place of the European champions.

The roster of participants

Group A	Group B
Brazil	Spain
Japan	Uruguay
Mexico	Tahiti
Italy	Nigeria

Preliminary round

The draw took place on Saturday 1st December 2012 in São Paulo. The schedule was announced on May 30, 2012. For the draw, hosts Brazil, world and European champions Spain as well as vice-European champions 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 into pot 2. In addition, Brazil was set as the group head of group A and Spain as the group head of group B. Italy was placed with Brazil in Group A and Uruguay with Spain in Group B to avoid premature intra-association games, and only the timing of the games was determined by lot.
All times are in local time ( UTC − 3 ); corresponds to CEST minus 5 hours.

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	009: 200	+7	09
2.	Italy	3	2	0	1	008: 800	± 0	06th
3.	Mexico	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	03
4th	Japan	3	0	0	3	004: 900	−5	00

June 15 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Brasília
Brazil	-	Japan	3: 0 (1: 0)
June 16 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Mexico	-	Italy	1: 2 (1: 1)
June 19th at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza
Brazil	-	Mexico	2: 0 (1: 0)
June 19 at 7:00 p.m. (June 20 at 12:00 a.m. CEST) in Recife
Italy	-	Japan	4: 3 (1: 2)
June 22nd at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte
Japan	-	Mexico	1: 2 (0: 0)
June 22nd at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Salvador da Bahia
Italy	-	Brazil	2: 4 (0: 1)

In Group A, Italy and Brazil, measured by the number of world championship titles won, were drawn as the two most successful teams.

Host Brazil won the group with three wins. The 3-0 win in the opening game against Japan was followed by a 2-0 win against Mexico. Since Italy had also won their first two games against Japan and Mexico, the two teams only played for group victory on the last day of the match, as they had already qualified for the semi-finals. Brazil won the game, securing group victory over Italy. Brazil's playmaker Neymar was voted “Man of the Match” in all three games. The final game between Mexico and Japan, both already eliminated at the time, ended 2-1 in favor of Mexico, who finished third in the group. Japan finished fourth in the group without winning points.

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	3	0	0	015: 100	+14	09
2.	Uruguay	3	2	0	1	011: 300	+8	06th
3.	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	007: 600	+1	03
4th	Tahiti	3	0	0	3	001:240	−23	00

June 16 at 7:00 p.m. (June 17 at 12:00 a.m. CEST) in Recife
Spain	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (2: 0)
June 17th at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte
Tahiti	-	Nigeria	1: 6 (0: 3)
June 20th at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Spain	-	Tahiti	10: 0 (4: 0)
June 20th at 7:00 p.m. (June 21st at 12:00 a.m. CEST) in Salvador da Bahia
Nigeria	-	Uruguay	1: 2 (1: 1)
June 23 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza
Nigeria	-	Spain	0: 3 (0: 1)
June 23 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Recife
Uruguay	-	Tahiti	8: 0 (4: 0)

As in group A, two world champions were drawn in group B with Spain and Uruguay, with the first meeting the current world champion.

World champions Spain, like Brazil, won all three games. With the win against Nigeria you were in first place on your own. Uruguay lost their first game, but won the duel against Nigeria on matchday two. With the final win against Tahiti and with the help of the Spaniards who won against Nigeria, Uruguay ended up in second place. African champions Nigeria were eliminated. Although the team won against Tahiti, where they had to accept the only goal of the champions from Oceania, they could not score afterwards. Tahiti left the tournament without a point and with a goal difference of 1:24. Jonathan Tehau scored the only goal against Nigeria.

Final round

Semifinals

June 26th at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte
Brazil	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (1: 0)
June 27 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza
Spain	-	Italy	0: 0 n.V., 7: 6 i. E.

3rd place match

June 30th at 1:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Salvador da Bahia
Uruguay	-	Italy	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 1), 2: 3 i. E.

final

June 30th at 7:00 p.m. (July 1st at 12:00 a.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil	-	Spain	3: 0 (2: 0)

List of goalscorers

rank player Gates templates Playing time (min.) 1  Fernando Torres "Golden Shoe" 5 1 273 2  Fred "Silver Shoe" 5 1 423 3  Neymar "bronze shoe" 4th 2 412 4th  Abel Hernández 4th 1 090 5  David Villa 3 2 136 6th  Edinson Cavani 3 1 390 7th  Nnamdi Oduamadi 3 0 135 8th  Chicharito 3 0 270 9  Luis Suarez 3 0 404 10  David Silva 2 1 179 11  Mario Balotelli 2 1 266 12  Jô 2 0 027 13  Shinji Okazaki 2 0 270 14th  Paulinho 2 0 358 15th  Jordi Alba 2 0 390 16  Nicolás Lodeiro 1 2 117 17th  Juan Mata 1 1 171 18th  Andrea Pirlo 1 1 300 19th  Diego Forlan 1 1 321 20th  Pedro 1 1 325 21st  Emanuele Giaccherini 1 1 377 22nd  Dante 1 0 057 23  Sebastian Giovinco 1 0 090 24  Davide Astori 1 0 096 25th  Roberto Soldado 1 0 150 26th  Alessandro Diamanti 1 0 155 27  Diego Perez 1 0 172 28  Keisuke Honda 1 0 269 29  John Obi Mikel 1 0 270  Jonathan Tehau 1 0 270  Shinji Kagawa 1 0 270  Elderson Echiéjilé 1 0 270 33  Daniele De Rossi 1 0 370 34  Diego Lugano 1 0 390 35  Giorgio Chiellini 1 0 510 -  Atsuto Uchida ET -  Jonathan Tehau ET -  Nicolas Vallar ET

Winner of the “Golden Shoe”: Fernando Torres Winner of the “Silver Shoe”: Fred Winner of the "Bronze Shoe": Neymar

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

→ Main article : List of FIFA Confederations Cup Top Scorers

Awards

Golden ball

The Brazilian Neymar received the “Golden Ball” for the best player of the tournament . The Spaniard Andrés Iniesta was awarded the “Silver Ball” . The "Bronze Ball" was awarded to the Brazilian Paulinho .

Golden Shoe

The Spaniard Fernando Torres was awarded the "Golden Shoe" as the tournament's top scorer . The “Silver Shoe” went to the Brazilian Fred , who like Torres scored five goals and gave the same number of assists, but had more playing minutes. The "bronze shoe" went to Neymar, who like the Uruguayan Abel Hernández scored four tournament goals, but provided more assists.

Golden glove

The Brazilian Júlio César received the “Golden Glove” for the best goalkeeping performance of the tournament . Silver and bronze trophies were not awarded in this category.

FIFA Fair Play Trophy

The Spanish national soccer team was awarded the fair play prize for sportily correct appearance on and off the pitch .

referee

The following referees and assistants to be used at the tournament were nominated by the world association on May 13, 2013:

Association	referee	vintage	Games	Games (4th opening)					Assistant 1	vintage	Assistant 2	vintage
AFC	Ravshan Ermatov	1977	1	1	04th	0	0		Abdukhamidullo Rasulov	1976	Bachadyr Kochkarow	1970
	Yūichi Nishimura	1972	1	2	04th	0	0		Tōru Sagara	1976	Toshiyuki Nagi	1971
CAF	Djamel Haimoudi	1970	2	2	04th	1	0		Redouane Achik	1972	Abdelhak Etchiali	1981
CONCACAF	Joel Aguilar	1975	2	2	01	0	0		William Torres	1975	Juan Zumba	1982
CONMEBOL	Diego Abal	1971	1	1	04th	0	0		Hernán Maidana	1972	Juan Pablo Belatti	1979
	Enrique Osses	1974	2	1	10	0	0		Carlos Astroza	1976	Sergio Roman	1969
OFC	no referee								no assistants
UEFA	Felix Brych	1975	1	3	02	0	0		Mark Borsch	1977	Stefan Lupp	1978
	Bjorn Kuipers	1973	2	1	06th	0	1		Sander van Roekel	1974	Erwin Zeinstra	1977
	Pedro Proença	1970	2	2	04th	2	0		Bertino Miranda	1972	José Trigo	1972
	Howard Webb	1971	2	1	07th	0	0		Michael Mullarkey	1970	Darren Cann	1969

Cue ball

The match ball was also presented during the draw on December 1, 2012. It was called Cafusa , a "combination of carnaval , futebol and samba (carnival, football, samba)" and was manufactured by Adidas . The ball was also used at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup .

Technical aids

On February 19, 2013, FIFA decided to use goal-line technology for the first time at the tournament . A system was used to check via video cameras whether a ball had crossed the goal line. The referee received a signal on a receiver that he wore on his wrist. The system is a combination of GoalControl and GoalRef technology.

security concept

The games were protected by over 54,000 police officers and soldiers. The expenses for their newly acquired equipment amounted to 700 million euros.

Television broadcast

Germany

The television rights for Germany were owned by the two public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and the private broadcaster Sport1 . Eight games were broadcast by “Sport 1” (including the third place match ), five games by “ZDF” (including 1st semifinals and final ) and two matches by “ Das Erste ” (including 2nd semifinals ). The last game in Group B was not broadcast in Germany.

Protests during the event

→ Main article : Protests in Brazil in 2013

Protests on June 18 in Rio

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

FIFA President Sepp Blatter commented on the protest rallies in an exclusive interview with the Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo on June 19 ; numerous media quoted his sentence “Brazil competed for this World Cup. We didn't force the World Cup on Brazil ”. He couldn't understand the criticism of the cost of the stadiums; you shouldn't use football to make demands.

Brazil’s soccer players like Dante and Neymar showed their solidarity with the demonstrators.

On June 21, 2013, Brazil’s President Rousseff promised a “big pact” for a better Brazil in a nationally broadcast televised address.

Statistical peculiarities

• For the first time, the three different winners of the last three world championships took part in Spain, Italy and Brazil.
• With Brazil, Italy, Spain and Uruguay, four former or current world champions took part for the first time. The previous record with three world champions came from 2005, when Argentina, Brazil and Germany took part. All four made it to the semi-finals.
• In the opening game, Brazil and Japan, the two teams that had already qualified for the 2014 World Cup , were the first and at that time only teams .
• Tahiti was ranked 138th in the FIFA world rankings, making it the lowest ranking competitor since the world rankings were launched. So far it was New Zealand in 1999 in 102nd place.
• Andrea Pirlo and Diego Forlán completed their 100th international match in the group matches.
• Spain's 10-0 win over Tahiti was the team’s highest win in Confederations Cup history. The game shared the record for the highest-scoring game with the 8-2 between Brazil and Saudi Arabia in 1999.
• The victories of Spain and Uruguay against Tahiti were the highest victories of any other confederation as well as a European and South American team against an oceanic team.
• A new record for the total number of goals was set with 68 goals.
• Brazil is the first team to win the title three times in a row at a FIFA tournament.

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

The victory helped Brazil move up 13 places to 9th place in the FIFA world rankings , with 223 points being the month’s biggest point win. Italy improved by two places to 6th and Uruguay by seven places to 12th. Spain lost points but remains the front runner. The teams eliminated in the group stage, however, lost positions: Mexico from 17th to 20th, Nigeria from 31st to 35th, Japan from 32nd to 37th and Tahiti from 138th to 154th.

doping

A doping case became known about a month after the tournament ended. A player from Tahiti tested positive during a check-up on June 23, 2013. FIFA was initially silent about the substance and the name of the actor. On September 27, 2013 it was announced that defender Vincent Simon would be suspended until February 7, 2014 for a positive doping test in the game against Uruguay on June 23 in Recife.

Web links

Commons : FIFA Confederations Cup 2013  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official FIFA website for the 2013 Confederations Cup

Individual evidence

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