FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 / Chile

This article covers the Chilean national football team at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup . Chile took part in the Confederations Cup for the first time and qualified by winning the Copa America 2015 , which Chile won for the first time. After the two Copa finals in 2015 and 2016, the Chileans also reached the final of the Confederation Cup, but lost it 0-1 against world champions Germany.

Squad

On May 19th, Chile's coach Juan Antonio Pizzi nominated a provisional squad of 17 players, none of whom are playing in Chile anymore. On June 2nd the complete roster was announced. It was Nicolás Castillo deleted. Players marked with "*" were also in the winning squad of the Copa America 2015 and players marked with "#" were in the squad for the Copa America Centenario 2016 , which Chile also won. The most experienced players in the squad are record international Claudio Bravo and record goalscorer Alexis Sánchez with 112 and 110 international matches. Chile has the oldest tournament squad with an average age of 29 years and one month.

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use	Games	Gates
goal	01	Claudio Bravo * #	Manchester City	Apr 13, 1983	112	00	2004	26th Mar 2017	3		1
	23	Johnny Herrera * #	Universidad de Chile	0May 9, 1981	019th	00	2002	June 13, 2017	2
	12	Cristopher Toselli #	Universidad de Chile	June 15, 1988	009	00	2010	Jan 15, 2017
Defense	15th	Jean Beausejour * #	Universidad de Chile	0June 1, 1984	091	06th	2004	0June 9, 2017	4th		1
	13	Paulo Díaz	San Lorenzo	Aug 25, 1994	006th	00	2015	June 13, 2017	2
	10	Pablo Hernández #	Celta Vigo	Oct. 24, 1986	014th	03	2014	0June 9, 2017	4th		2
	04th	Mauricio Isla * #	Cagliari Calcio	June 12, 1988	090	04th	2007	June 13, 2017	5
	18th	Gonzalo Jara * #	Universidad de Chile	Aug 29, 1985	102	03	2006	0June 9, 2017	5		3
	17th	Gary Medel * #	Inter Milan	0Aug 3, 1987	101	07th	2007	June 13, 2017	4th
	02	Eugenio Mena * #	Sport Recife	July 18, 1988	051	03	2010	June 13, 2017	1
	03	Enzo Roco #	CD Cruz Azul	Aug 16, 1992	017th	01	2012	June 13, 2017
Midfield / storm
	20th	Charles Aránguiz * #	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Apr 17, 1989	058	07th	2009	June 13, 2017	5
	06th	José Pedro Fuenzalida * #	CD Universidad Católica	Feb 22, 1985	044	03	2008	June 13, 2017	3
	21st	Marcelo Díaz * #	Celta Vigo	Dec. 30, 1986	054	01	2011	June 13, 2017	5
	14th	Felipe Gutiérrez *	SC Internacional	0Oct 8, 1990	035	04th	2010	June 13, 2017
	22nd	Edson Puch #	Club Necaxa	0Apr 9, 1986	017th	02	2009	June 13, 2017	2
	16	Martín Rodríguez	Cruz Azul	0Aug 5, 1994	004th	00	2014	June 13, 2017	3	1
	09	Ángelo Sagal	CD Huachipato	Apr 18, 1993	005	02	2015	0June 9, 2017	1
	07th	Alexis Sánchez * #	Arsenal FC	December 19, 1988	110	37	2005	June 13, 2017	5	1	1
	05	Francisco Silva * #	CD Cruz Azul	Feb. 11, 1986	033	00	2007	June 13, 2017	4th
	19th	Leonardo Valencia	CD Palestino	Apr 25, 1991	006th	00	2016	June 13, 2017	2
	11	Eduardo Vargas * #	UANL Tigres	Nov 20, 1989	072	33	2009	June 13, 2017	5	1	1
	08th	Arturo Vidal * #	FC Bayern Munich	May 22, 1987	090	20th	2007	June 13, 2017	5	1	2
Status of appearances and goals: June 13, 2017 (last game before the tournament)

preparation

In preparation for the tournament, the Chileans were the first CONMEBOL team to meet Burkina Faso in Santiago de Chile on June 2 and won 3-0. On June 9, they played in Moscow for the first time against Confed Cup hosts Russia and parted with 1: 1, with Gary Medel making his 100th international match and César Pinares, who was not nominated for the Confed Cup, was substituted on. On June 13, they lost in Cluj-Napoca to Romania after a 2-0 lead 2-3 2-3, with two goals conceded after the red card for Gary Medel.

Group stage

Moscow Kazan St. Petersburg

Venues

In Group B, Chile met world champions Germany, Asia champions Australia and Africa champions Cameroon, who were the last to qualify for the tournament after the group draw. There had previously been five games against Australia, four of which were won and one game in the 1974 World Cup preliminary round ended in a draw. Against Germany there were three competitive defeats and two wins and two defeats in friendly games, the former in 1961 and 1968 in Chile. There was only one game against Cameroon that ended in a draw in the 1998 World Cup preliminary round. After a win against Cameroon and two draws against Germany and Australia, Chile reached the semi-finals in second place in the group. There they meet European champions Portugal. Both have met three times so far, of which the Chileans lost the first two in 1928 - the Chileans' first game outside South America - and 1972, and the last one ended in a draw in March 2011.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 400	+3	07th
2.	Chile	3	1	2	0	004: 200	+2	05
3.	Australia	3	0	2	1	004: 500	−1	02
4th	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	002: 600	−4	01

Sun., June 18, 2017, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Cameroon	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 0)
Thursday, June 22, 2017, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Germany	-	Chile	1: 1 (1: 1)
Sun., June 25, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Chile	-	Australia	1: 1 (0: 1)

Final round

Semifinals

In the semifinals, the Chileans were able to prevail on penalties , which they achieved for the third time in a major tournament after being eliminated from penalties in the second round of the 2014 World Cup.

Wed., June 28, 2017, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Portugal	-	Chile	0: 0 n / a,. 0: 3 i. E.

final

Sun., July 2, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Chile	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selección Chilena
2. ↑ Nómina de la Selección Chilena para la Copa FIFA Confederaciones Rusia 2017
3. ↑ FIFA Confederations Cup - Players
4. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list ( memento of the original from July 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ 1 in the group stage and 1 in the semi-finals
6. ↑ 1 in the group stage, 1 in the semi-finals and 1 in the final
7. ↑ 1 in the group stage and 1 in the final
8. ↑ La Roja se despide con una victoria sobre Burkina Faso
9. ↑ Romania vs. Chile 3 - 2