Confederations Cup 2017

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This is a thread for the Confederations Cup tournament which is starting this coming Saturday (the 17th June)

If you don't know what the Confederations Cup is its an eight team tournament held by FIFA for national teams held every four years, its contested by holders from each of the six regional championships (UEFA, CONMEBAL, CONCAFAF, CAF, AFC, OFC) along with the World Cup holders and the host nation bring the total to eight.

Here are this years participants.

Russia-Hosts and 2018 World Cup hosts
Germany-2014 World Cup winners
Chile-2015 Copa America winners
Australia-2015 AFC Asian Cup winners
Mexico-2015 CONCAFAF Cup winners
Portugal-2016 UEFA Euro winners
New Zealand-2016 OFC Nations Cup winners
Cameroon- 2017 African Nations Cup winners

And here are the groups...

Group A
Russia
New Zealand
Portugal
Mexico

Group B
Cameroon
Chile
Australia
Germany

Four stadiums will host the matches in Kazan, Moscow, Sochi and the Saint Petersburg where the final will be held in Zenit's new ground, the first match will be Russia v New Zealand on Saturday night at 8pm, the whole tournament will televised in the UK on ITV, probably ITV4...
 
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So it all kicks off in around 20 minutes with Russia v New Zealand on 4pm, tomorrow its Portugal v Mexico at 4pm and Cameroon v Chile at 8pm, Australia v Germany is the only game on Monday at 4pm before a day's break until the fixtures resume on Wednesday.

Kick-off times are GMT, its split between ITV and ITV4 in the UK.
 
I completely forgot about the Confed Cup this year until 20 minutes into the first match!

The last one was a cracker, hopefully this one can follow suit. Just a bit disappointing that Germany are taking the young lads but it's to be expected.
 
Portugal 2-2 Mexico just finished, Quaresma with the first (with an assist from you know who), Hernandez equalised a few minutes later, then some late drama with what seemed to be Portugal's winner from Cedric was given via Video Assistance, but then Moreno got a very late equaliser in the 91st minute.

Cameroon v Chile tonight.

There were lots of empty seats for the game today, and even the Russia match wasn't sold out yesterday either.
 
There is just a general indifference to it in Russia, the only game that is completely sold out is Russia v Portugal.

Chile beat Cameroon 0-2 last night and its Australia v Germany tonight.
 
Russia v Portugal is about to start, Mexico v New Zealand is on tonight.
 
So today its Russia v Mexico and then New Zealand v Portugal, group A is very much wide open with only NZ who cant qualify having lost both their games, Mexico and Portugal both on four points with Russia and three, Ronaldo might be rested for the NZ game.
 
The final takes place tonight, its Germany v Chile in St Petersburg, Germany hammered Mexico in the semis whilst Chile needed a penalty shootout to beat Portugal, with Claudio Bravo saving three.....yes really!!
 
Congrats to Germany on winning the Confederations cup with a 1-0 win, Lars Stindl with the only goal coming around halfway through the first half, it was quite the feat considering that Germany left a lot of big names at home and only had three members of the World Cup winning squad.
 
Ireland qualifying for the World Cup would be considered a great achievement, while Germany accidentally win the Confed Cup. Such is football.
 

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