FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 / Squad

This article provides an overview of the teams participating in the 2013 Confederations Cup . The teams are arranged according to the preliminary round groups and sorted alphabetically within the groups.

Group A

Brazil

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Jefferson	Botafogo FR	2nd January 1983	0	0	0	0	0
12	Júlio César	Queens Park Rangers	3rd September 1979	5	0	0	0	0
20th	Diego Cavalieri	Fluminense FC	1st December 1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Dani Alves	FC Barcelona	May 6, 1983	5	0	1	0	0
3	Thiago Silva	Paris Saint-Germain	September 22, 1984	5	0	1	0	0
4th	David Luiz	Chelsea FC	April 22, 1987	5	0	2	0	0
6th	Marcelo	real Madrid	May 12, 1988	5	0	1	0	0
13	Dante	FC Bayern Munich	October 18, 1983	2	1	0	0	0
14th	Filipe Luís	Atlético Madrid	August 9, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Jean	Fluminense FC	June 24, 1986	0	0	0	0	0
16	Réver	Atlético Mineiro	4th January 1985	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Fernando	Gremio Porto Alegre	March 3, 1992	1	0	0	0	0
7th	Lucas Moura	Paris Saint-Germain	August 13, 1992	2	0	0	0	0
8th	Hernanes	Lazio Rome	May 29, 1985	5	0	0	0	0
11	Oscar	Chelsea FC	September 9, 1991	5	0	0	0	0
17th	Luiz Gustavo	FC Bayern Munich	July 23, 1987	5	0	2	0	0
18th	Paulinho	Corinthians São Paulo	July 25, 1988	4th	2	0	0	0
20th	Bernard	Atlético Mineiro	September 8, 1992	2	0	0	0	0
23	Jádson	Sao Paulo FC	5th October 1983	1	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Fred	Fluminense FC	3rd October 1983	5	5	0	0	0
10	Neymar	FC Santos	5th February 1992	5	4th	1	0	0
19th	Hulk	Zenit St. Petersburg	July 25, 1986	5	0	0	0	0
21st	Jô	Atlético Mineiro	March 20, 1987	3	2	0	0	0
Trainer
	Luiz Felipe Scolari		November 9, 1948

Italy

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus Turin	January 28, 1978	5	0	1	0	0
12	Salvatore Sirigu	Paris Saint-Germain	January 12, 1987	0	0	0	0	0
13	Federico Marchetti	Lazio Rome	February 7, 1983	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Christian Maggio	SSC Naples	February 11, 1982	4th	0	0	0	0
3	Giorgio Chiellini	Juventus Turin	August 14, 1984	5	1	1	0	0
4th	Davide Astori	Cagliari Calcio	January 7, 1987	1	1	0	0	0
5	Mattia De Sciglio	AC Milan	October 20, 1992	4th	0	0	0	0
15th	Andrea Barzagli	Juventus Turin	May 8, 1981	3	0	1	0	0
19th	Leonardo Bonucci	Juventus Turin	May 1, 1987	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Ignazio Abate	AC Milan	November 12, 1986	3	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Antonio Candreva	Lazio Rome	February 28, 1987	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Alberto Aquilani	AC Florence	7th July 1984	5	0	0	0	0
8th	Claudio Marchisio	Juventus Turin	January 19, 1986	4th	0	1	0	0
16	Daniele De Rossi	AS Roma	July 24, 1983	4th	1	3	0	0
17th	Alessio Cerci	Torino FC	July 23, 1987	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Riccardo Montolivo	AC Milan	January 18, 1985	5	0	0	1	0
21st	Andrea Pirlo	Juventus Turin	May 19, 1979	3	1	0	0	0
22nd	Emanuele Giaccherini	Juventus Turin	May 5th 1985	5	1	0	0	0
striker
9	Mario Balotelli	AC Milan	August 12, 1990	3	2	1	0	0
10	Sebastian Giovinco	Juventus Turin	January 26, 1987	2	1	0	0	0
11	Alberto Gilardino	Bologna FC	5th July 1982	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Stephan El Shaarawy	AC Milan	October 27, 1992	2	0	0	0	0
23	Alessandro Diamanti	Bologna FC	May 2nd 1983	2	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Cesare Prandelli		August 19, 1957

Japan

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Eiji Kawashima	Standard Liege	March 20, 1983	3	0	0	0	0
12	Shūsaku Nishikawa	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	June 18, 1986	0	0	0	0	0
23	Shuichi Gonda	FC Tokyo	March 3, 1989	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Masahiko Inoha	Júbilo Iwata	August 28, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
3	Gotoku Sakai	VfB Stuttgart	March 14, 1991	0	0	0	0	0
5	Yūto Nagatomo	Inter Milan	September 12, 1986	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Atsuto Uchida	FC Schalke 04	March 27, 1988	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Yasuyuki Konno	Gamba Osaka	January 25, 1983	3	0	1	0	0
16	Yūzō Kurihara	Yokohama F. Marinos	September 18, 1983	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Hiroki Sakai	Hannover 96	April 12, 1990	2	0	1	0	0
22nd	Maya Yoshida	Southampton FC	August 24, 1988	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
4th	Keisuke Honda	CSKA Moscow	June 13, 1986	3	1	0	0	0
7th	Yasuhito Endo	Gamba Osaka	January 28, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Hiroshi Kiyotake	1. FC Nuremberg	November 12, 1989	1	0	0	0	0
10	Shinji Kagawa	Manchester United	March 17, 1989	3	1	0	0	0
13	Hajime Hosogai	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	June 10, 1986	2	0	0	0	0
14th	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale	October 31, 1980	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Makoto Hasebe	VfL Wolfsburg	January 18, 1984	2	0	2	0	0
19th	Takashi Inui	Eintracht Frankfurt	June 2nd, 1988	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Hideto Takahashi	FC Tokyo	17th October 1987	0	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Shinji Okazaki	VfB Stuttgart	April 16, 1986	3	2	0	0	0
11	Mike Havenaar	Vitesse Arnhem	May 20, 1987	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Ryōichi Maeda	Júbilo Iwata	October 9, 1981	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Alberto Zaccheroni		April 1, 1953

Mexico

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Guillermo Ochoa	AC Ajaccio	July 13, 1985	1	0	1	0	0
12	Jesus Corona	CD Cruz Azul	January 26, 1981	2	0	0	0	0
23	Alfredo Talavera	Deportivo Toluca	September 18, 1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Maza	Club America	20th October 1981	2	0	1	0	0
3	Carlos Salcido	UANL Tigres	April 2, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Diego Reyes	Club America	19th September 1992	1	0	0	0	0
13	Severo Meza	CF Monterrey	July 9, 1986	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Héctor Moreno	Espanyol Barcelona	17th January 1988	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Jorge Torres Nilo	UANL Tigres	January 16, 1988	2	0	0	0	0
21st	Hiram Mier	CF Monterrey	August 25, 1989	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Gerardo Flores	CD Cruz Azul	5th February 1986	2	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Jesus Molina	Club America	March 29, 1988	0	0	0	0	0
6th	Gerardo Torrado	CD Cruz Azul	April 30, 1979	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Ángel Reyna	CF Pachuca	September 19, 1984	0	0	0	0	0
10	Giovani dos Santos	RCD Mallorca	May 11, 1989	3	0	1	0	0
11	Javier Aquino	Villarreal CF	February 11, 1990	2	0	0	0	0
16	Hector Miguel Herrera	CF Pachuca	April 19, 1990	1	0	1	0	0
17th	Jesús Zavala	CF Monterrey	July 21, 1987	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Andrés Guardado	Valencia CF	September 28, 1986	3	0	1	0	0
striker
7th	Pablo Barrera	CD Cruz Azul	June 21, 1987	2	0	0	0	0
9	Aldo de Nigris	CF Monterrey	July 22, 1983	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Chicharito	Manchester United	June 1, 1988	3	3	0	0	0
19th	Raúl Jiménez	Club America	May 5, 1991	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	José Manuel de la Torre		November 13, 1965

Group B

Nigeria

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Vincent Enyeama	Maccabi Tel Aviv	August 29, 1982	3	0	0	0	0
16	Austin Ejide	Hapoel Beer Sheva	April 8, 1984	0	0	0	0	0
23	Chigozie Agbim	Enugu Rangers	November 28, 1984	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Godfrey Oboabona	Sunshine Stars FC	August 16, 1990	3	0	0	0	0
3	Elderson Echiéjilé	Sporting Braga	January 20, 1988	3	1	0	0	0
5	Ivy Ambrose	Celtic Glasgow	October 18, 1988	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Trainee Egwuekwe	Warri Wolves	July 16, 1989	2	0	0	0	0
12	Solomon Kwambe	Sunshine Stars FC	September 30, 1993	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Francis Benjamin	Heartland FC	2nd January 1993	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Kenneth Omeruo	Chelsea FC	17th October 1993	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
4th	John Ugochukwu	Académica de Coimbra	April 20, 1988	3	0	0	0	0
10	John Obi Mikel	Chelsea FC	April 22, 1987	3	1	0	0	0
13	Fedor Ogude	Vålerenga Oslo	July 29, 1987	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Michel Babatunde	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	December 24, 1992	1	0	1	0	0
17th	Ogenyi Onazi	Lazio Rome	December 25, 1992	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Emeka Eze	Enugu Rangers	22nd December 1992	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Sunday Mba	Warri Wolves	November 28, 1988	3	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	Ahmed Musa	CSKA Moscow	October 14, 1992	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Ideye Brown	FK Dynamo Moscow	October 10, 1988	3	0	0	0	0
9	Joseph Akpala	SV Werder Bremen	August 24, 1986	2	0	1	0	0
11	Mohammed Gambo	Kano Pillars	March 10, 1988	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Anthony Ujah	1. FC Cologne	October 14, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Nnamdi Oduamadi	AS Varese 1910	17th October 1990	2	3	0	0	0
Trainer
	Stephen Keshi		January 23, 1962

Spain

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Iker Casillas	real Madrid	May 20, 1981	3	0	0	0	0
12	Víctor Valdés	FC Barcelona	January 14, 1982	1	0	0	0	0
23	Pepe Reina	Liverpool FC	August 31, 1982	1	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Raúl Albiol	real Madrid	4th September 1985	1	0	0	0	0
3	Gerard Piqué	FC Barcelona	2nd February 1987	4th	0	2	0	1
5	César Azpilicueta	Chelsea FC	August 28, 1989	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Sergio Ramos	real Madrid	March 30, 1986	5	0	1	0	0
17th	Álvaro Arbeloa	real Madrid	17th January 1983	4th	0	2	0	0
18th	Jordi Alba	FC Barcelona	March 21, 1989	4th	2	0	0	0
19th	Nacho Monreal	Arsenal FC	February 26, 1986	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Javi Martínez	FC Bayern Munich	2nd September 1988	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Andrés Iniesta	FC Barcelona	May 11, 1984	5	0	0	0	0
8th	Xavi	FC Barcelona	January 25, 1980	4th	0	0	0	0
10	Cesc Fàbregas	FC Barcelona	May 4th 1987	3	0	0	0	0
13	Juan Mata	Chelsea FC	April 28, 1988	4th	1	0	0	0
16	Sergio Busquets	FC Barcelona	July 16, 1988	4th	0	0	0	0
20th	Santi Cazorla	Arsenal FC	December 13, 1984	2	0	1	0	0
21st	David Silva	Manchester City	January 8, 1986	3	2	0	0	0
22nd	Jesús Navas	Sevilla FC	November 21, 1985	3	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	David Villa	FC Barcelona	3rd December 1981	3	3	0	0	0
9	Fernando Torres	Chelsea FC	March 20, 1984	4th	5	0	0	0
11	Pedro	FC Barcelona	July 28, 1987	4th	1	0	0	0
14th	Roberto Soldado	Valencia CF	May 27, 1985	2	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Vicente del Bosque		December 23, 1950

Tahiti

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Mickaël Roche	AS Dragon	December 24, 1982	1	0	0	0	0
22nd	Gilbert Meriel	AS Tefana	November 11, 1986	1	0	0	0	0
23	Xavier Samin	AS Dragon	January 1, 1978	1	0	0	0	0
Defender
4th	Teheivarii Ludivion	AS Tefana	July 1, 1989	3	0	0	1	0
8th	Stephane Faatiarau	AS Tefana	March 12, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
10	Nicolas Vallar	AS Dragon	October 22, 1983	3	0	1	0	0
12	Edson Lemaire	AS Dragon	March 30, 1986	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Rainui Aroita	AS Tamarii Faa'a	January 25, 1994	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Jonathan Tehau	AS Tamarii Faa'a	5th January 1988	3	1	0	0	0
19th	Vincent Simon	AS Dragon	September 28, 1983	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Yannick Vero	AS Dragon	February 28, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
2	Alvin Tehau	AS Tefana	April 10, 1989	2	0	0	0	0
5	Tamatoa Wagemann	AS Dragon	March 18, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
6th	Henri Caroine	AS Dragon	7th September 1981	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Heimano Bourebare	AS Tefana	May 15, 1989	2	0	0	0	0
11	Stanley Atani	AS Tefana	January 27, 1990	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Lorenzo Tehau	AS Tefana	April 10, 1989	2	0	0	0	0
16	Ricky Aitamai	AS Vénus	December 22, 1991	3	0	0	0	0
striker
3	Marama Vahirua	Panthrakikos	May 12, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
9	Teaonui Tehau	AS Vénus	September 1, 1992	1	0	0	0	0
13	Steevy Chong Hue	AS Dragon	January 26, 1990	3	0	1	0	0
18th	Yohann Tihoni	AS Roniu	July 20, 1994	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Samuel Hnanyine	AS Dragon	March 1, 1984	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Eddy Etaeta		June 1, 1970

Uruguay

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the tournament	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Fernando Muslera	Galatasaray Istanbul	June 16, 1986	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Juan Guillermo Castillo	Danubio FC	April 17, 1978	0	0	0	0	0
23	Martín Silva	Club Olimpia	March 25, 1983	1	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Diego Lugano	Málaga CF	November 2, 1980	4th	1	2	0	0
3	Diego Godin	Atlético Madrid	February 16, 1986	4th	0	0	0	0
4th	Sebastián Coates	Liverpool FC	October 7, 1990	2	0	1	0	0
6th	Álvaro Pereira	Inter Milan	November 28, 1985	3	0	0	0	0
13	Matías Aguirregaray	Club Atlético Peñarol	April 1, 1989	1	0	0	0	0
16	Maxi Pereira	Benfica Lisbon	June 8, 1984	4th	0	1	0	0
19th	Andrés Scotti	Nacional Montevideo	December 14th 1975	1	0	0	1	0
22nd	Martín Cáceres	Juventus Turin	April 7, 1987	4th	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Walter Gargano	Inter Milan	July 23, 1984	4th	0	0	0	0
7th	Cristian Rodríguez	Atlético Madrid	September 30, 1985	4th	0	0	0	0
8th	Sebastián Eguren	Club Libertad	January 8, 1981	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Nicolás Lodeiro	Botafogo FR	March 21, 1989	2	1	0	0	0
15th	Diego Perez	Bologna FC	May 18, 1980	3	1	1	0	0
17th	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	US Palermo	January 1, 1982	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Gastón Ramírez	Southampton FC	2nd December 1990	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Álvaro González	Lazio Rome	October 29, 1984	4th	0	1	0	0
striker
9	Luis Suarez	Liverpool FC	January 24, 1987	5	3	1	0	0
10	Diego Forlan	SC Internacional	May 19, 1979	4th	1	0	0	0
11	Abel Hernández	US Palermo	August 8, 1990	1	4th	0	0	0
21st	Edinson Cavani	SSC Naples	February 14, 1987	4th	3	2	0	0
Trainer
	Óscar Tabarez		March 3, 1947

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

Individual evidence

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