FIFA sanctioned the confederations; the confederations sanctioned the national associations.
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It lost to Brazil in the 2013 Confederations Cup and to Germany in the 2005 Confederations Cup.
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In 2017, he was in Russia for the Confederations Cup.
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Russia showcased four of its 12 World Cup venues during this year's Confederations Cup, a two-week tournament that featured the home country, defending world champions Germany and the champions from FIFA's regional confederations.
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With two of FIFA's confederations scheduling men's finals, including USA v.
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Chile face World Cup holders Germany in Sunday's Confederations Cup final.
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Neither the shooting nor taekwondo confederations could be reached for comment.
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Both teams advance to the semifinal round of the Confederations Cup.
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The arrangement makes a ton of sense for the confederations, too.
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The country will showcase four of its 12 World Cup venues during the Confederations Cup, a two-week tournament kicking off Saturday that will feature the home country, defending World Cup champions Germany and the winners of FIFA confederations.
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FIFA said the system corrected six game-changing decisions during the Confederations Cup.
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FIFA typically pays $10 million a year to each of its six confederations.
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The tournament would be held instead of the Confederations Cup in June 2021.
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That leaves just Mexico and Japan from outside the two historically dominant confederations.
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The Confederations Cup had finished, and so had the European under-21 championships.
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Mexico face New Zealand on Wednesday in Sochi in their second Confederations Cup match.
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The Confederations Cup games will take place in four different cities across the country.
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The Australasian bid is the first that crosses the boundaries of FIFA's six confederations.
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Apart from the World Cup, FDP has broadcasted Copa América tournaments, Gold and Confederations Cups.
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In Kazan, police detained seven environmental activists ahead of the Confederations Cup draw in 2016.
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There were underbosses: the FIFA Executive Committee and the executives of the six regional confederations.
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It is not clear what the leaders of confederations for Africa, Asia and Oceania earn.
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Then Spain beat Italy again, in a shootout, at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil.
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Whatever the cause, the World Cup cannot risk three of its confederations fading into irrelevance.
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That case led to charges against the leaders of the two confederations based in the Americas.
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Aaron: Here is my BIG PROPOSAL that I have thought about for five seconds: combine confederations.
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FIFA, which distributes millions of dollars to the confederations, two days ago suspended payments to CAF.
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Maybe the confederations could set up neutral bases any team can use, spread throughout the continents.
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Brazil won the 2013 Confederations Cup, hammering an all-conquering Spain side 3-0 in the final.
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Yet it was not a true forerunner of the Confederations Cup, which was already active by 1997.
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Having featured in the Confederations Cup for Portugal, the striker only returned to training earlier this month.
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In his testimony, Maduro also highlighted cases of what he said were electoral abuses in regional confederations.
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Similar upward trends continued in 22016 with the Confederations Cup and during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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The Confederations Cup, currently staged every four years in a year before the World Cup, would be abolished.
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And that's no insult to Donovan, who was a true spectacle in his day (Confederations Cup, 2009, anyone?).
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"There has to be an agreement between the confederations, like in ju-jitsu or judo," said Joselio Lima.
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It would also replace the unpopular Confederations Cup, a national team event played a year before the World Cup.
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Confederations Cup games, however, passed largely without incident and Russia says it's working to iron out any remaining problems.
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Ali has said FAs who do not toe the line can find they suffer reprisals from their continental confederations.
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Under that system, confederations are barred from hosting if they have hosted either of the previous two World Cups.
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Seven men's teams participate: winners from each of the six confederations, plus the winning team from the host country.
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Polynesian athletes unwittingly carried the virus to Recife, Brazil, where they participated in the FIFA Confederations Cup soccer games.
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Since his first election victory, there has only been one contested election in any of FIFA's six global confederations.
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Portugal, the European champion, extended New Zealand's winless run in Confederations Cup play to 12 games across four editions.
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Achilles apparently correctly predicted the winners of the FIFA Confederations Cup matches in St. Petersburg, where he lives, in 2017.
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"It limits the numbers of confederations that are bidding," Sunil Gulati, president of the United States Football Federation, told reporters.
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The tournament, if approved, would replace the Confederations Cup, the struggling tuneup event staged one year before the World Cup.
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Portugal, the European champion, outclassed New Zealand, which extended its winless Confederations Cup run to 12 games across four editions.
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That is an extra billion dollars that could be rerouted to confederations, and on to member nations, across the world.
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U.S. Soccer sweetened its offer for 2020 with nearly $200 million in guarantees to the visiting teams and their confederations.
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The key players in world soccer have begun arriving here, and meetings of FIFA's six regional confederations are set for Thursday.
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Draxler was also part of Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning team and was Germany captain at last year's Confederations Cup victory.
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The team also had a disappointingly short stay in the Confederations Cup, coming third in their group behind Portugal and Mexico.
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However, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said last week terrorism did not pose any threat to Confederations Cup participants and spectators.
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Most of these matches were friendlies while they lost to Portugal and Mexico in the Confederations Cup and beat New Zealand.
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A basic premise of the Justice Department's case is that soccer officials robbed FIFA and its confederations of their honest services.
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Well, Mexico isn't trying to slang wood with Russia, per-se, but their Group A Confederations Cup showdown has been spicy.
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Astori made his Italian debut in 2011 and played at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil, where he scored against Uruguay.
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Soccer officials from one of FIFA's largest confederations have gathered this week in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to elect a president.
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As it does for the World Cup, Europe will provide more competitors for the event than FIFA's other five regional confederations.
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FIFA put in place its own plan to stop offensive chants at the recent Confederations Cup, even threatening teams with forfeits.
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For centuries, Arabia had been fragmented, mostly into small or tiny oasis-states or their associations, nomadic tribes or their confederations.
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Responding to reports that UEFA was talking with other confederations, the global governing body said it was directly involved in the discussions.
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According to the SEC, Telefonica Brasil provided 194 World Cup tickets to 93 officials, and 38 Confederations Cup tickets to 34 officials.
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There was the disastrous fourth-place finish in the 2015 Gold Cup and subsequent failure to qualify for the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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Match agents hold the exclusive ability to set up friendly matches and tournaments between national soccer teams or clubs from different confederations.
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This weekend, Russia begins hosting the Confederations Cup, a warm-up tournament that is usually a dress rehearsal for the World Cup.
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He was named in the Confederations Cup's 'Best XI' after starting in four games and helping his country reach the semi-finals.
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South America, one of soccer's strongest confederations, will get 216 spots instead of 270, and Europe will go to 153 from 215.
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KAZAN, Russia — The game against host nation Russia will mean more to Mexico than just a spot in the Confederations Cup semifinal.
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The leaders of the regional confederations that govern soccer in the Americas, Concacaf and Conmebol, have been devastated by two waves of arrests.
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Such mini-tournaments could also be held for teams from the lower divisions from different confederations, creating a sort of 'minnows World Cup'.
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More on that in a bit, but the Confederations Cup is stupid and replacing it with an actual tournament is, on balance, good.
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Those same players won the 143 Confederations Cup, a warm-up tournament held the year before the World Cup in the host country.
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It would replace the largely inconsequential Confederations Cup, a World Cup dress rehearsal held in the host country the year before that event.
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"Obviously we are very happy," said Ronaldo, whose goal had given Portugal a 1-0 victory over Russia in their Confederations Cup match.
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Expansion is sure to be popular in the vote-rich confederations of Africa and Asia that serve as any FIFA president's power base.
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Like UEFA, most confederations are planning to wait until they see exactly what is in it for them before giving their wholehearted approval.
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New Zealand is now without a win in four trips to the Confederations Cup, and will next play Mexico on Wednesday in Sochi.
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So did Osorio, who served the fifth game of a six-match FIFA ban for his conduct toward officials during the Confederations Cup.
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The 2017 Confederations Cup begins in nine months in Russia, home to some of the most glaring examples of racism in recent history.
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Hernández scored the first goal for Mexico in its playoff win over the United States for a berth in the 2017 Confederations Cup. (AP)
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Hisense will engage in global marketing and advertising activities for FIFA's 2017 Confederations Cup and 2018 World Cup, the company said in a statement.
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The researchers did not want to give too much away but, as a teaser, published an analysis of Germany's goalkeepers at the Confederations Cup.
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Investigators accused the suspects, who they did not name, of using a scheme to steal money granted to the confederations by the Sports Ministry.
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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) tried to assuage concerns on Tuesday, saying terrorism did not pose a threat to Confederations Cup participants and spectators.
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"Russia did a brilliant job hosting the 2018 World Cup and we support the rotation of World Cup hosting among the confederations," said Clarke.
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One of many cats to have lived at the Hermitage, once the imperial Winter Palace, Achilles previously predicted outcomes during the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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FIFA will place anti-discrimination observers will be in stadiums to spot incidents, something which was first tested at the Confederations Cup this year.
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In the past, a stronger two-party system, bolstered by muscular labor unions and business confederations, had quashed figures like Mr. Trump with ease.
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Infantino is thought to favor spreading the added spaces around FIFA's confederations, rather than simply adding more places for established soccer centers like Europe.
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Dos Santos, who represented Mexico at the Confederations Cup, will begin training with the Galaxy on Friday before being unveiled at a media conference.
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In practice, the V.A.R. system caused daily bouts of confusion at its most recent high-profile trial, the Confederations Cup in Russia last month.
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Portugal fought back from a one-goal deficit Sunday to beat Mexico, 2-1, in extra time in the Confederations Cup third-place game.
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The average age of the German team at the Confederations Cup was just over 24, compared with an average of over 30 for Chile.
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FIFA on Thursday announced a plan for the proposed allocation of slots from its confederations for the expanded 48-team World Cup in 463.
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Four years ago, Brazil's Senate passed a bill that placed a two-term limit on the mandates of presidents sporting confederations which receive public funding.
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He made 14 appearances for Italy between 2012 and 2017 and was in the squad at the Confederations Cup in 2013 where Italy finished third.
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FIFA announced Wednesday that its emergency committee, consisting of the heads of the regional confederations, decided to dismiss Sepp Blatter's top aide over the weekend.
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It&aposs a versatile venue which has hosted Confederations Cup football, ceremonies, and even the 2015 world swimming championships, where a temporary pool was installed.
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One of the many cats to have lived at the Hermitage, once the imperial Winter Palace, Achilles previously predicted outcomes during the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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He clung on to his job despite suffering an early exit in the Confederations Cup by coming third in their group behind Portugal and Mexico.
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The Germans played a perfect qualification winning all 10 games, conceding just four goals in the process, and also clinched the Confederations Cup last year.
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They were part of a float to celebrate the impending FIFA Confederations Cup that will see Germany, Australia, and Mexico play at the Fisht Stadium.
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Domestic (Russian) TV rights to the Confederations Cup were only just finalized on June 11 for an undisclosed price, six days before the event began.
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Germany 4, Mexico 1 SOCHI, Russia — Leon Goretzka scored two early goals Thursday as Germany beat Mexico, 4-1, to reach the Confederations Cup final.
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Strong and Holden will call Sunday's qualifier at Mexico and will be the primary announcing team for the Confederations Cup in Russia starting June 17.
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CHILE DEFEATS CAMEROON Arturo Vidal brushed off a disputed video review to give Chile a victory over Cameroon in a Confederations Cup match in Moscow.
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KAZAN, Russia — Claudio Bravo made three saves as Chile crushed Portugal, 3-0, in a penalty shootout to reach the Confederations Cup final on Wednesday.
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To many, the host of the FIFA Confederations Cup over the next two weeks and the World Cup itself next summer remains largely terra incognita.
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Agents, managers, executives and power brokers from the game's major confederations huddled together in corners, or leaned in close for whispered conversations on overburdened couches.
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The couple are currently on vacation in Ibiza with Ronaldo's family during a pre-season break following the Portuguese sports star's participation in the Confederations Cup.
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After the indictments, the crisis at Concacaf, was worse than that suffered by any of soccer's six regional confederations, with the possible exception of South America.
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FIFA said Osorio also displayed an aggressive attitude towards officials in the Confederations Cup third place play-off, which Mexico lost 2:1 on July 2.
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The authorities have downplayed the lingering issues at one of Russia's most prized venues, assuring that it would be in pristine condition for the Confederations Cup.
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"FIFA is now clean from the scandals that tarnished its reputation, and this same determination should prevail in governing bodies such as confederations," FIFA's statement said.
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And with the confederations wanting to take charge of that process, it will likely prove just as controversial as the decision to expand the event itself.
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Last year, FIFA affirmed rules that will bar Europe and Asia from bidding for the 2026 event because their confederations will host the next two tournaments.
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It also signals a change in strategy for FIFA, after months of senior officials distancing Zurich from the scandal, instead blaming confederations which are beyond its control.
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Confederations in Asia and the Americas appear to be largely supportive of the idea, which would guarantee more games against top European sides for their best clubs.
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The fight culminated in a series of strikes by players at the start of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Had they wanted to freeze support for the confederations, they would have done it automatically when the issues arose, not when they are going in the elections.
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Other confederations are expected to send the winners of their own continental club championships, though the details of how the slots would be awarded could be contentious.
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On Soccer Germany's players were still embracing on the field, some minutes away from lifting the Confederations Cup trophy, when the congratulatory messages started to pour in.
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" European soccer's governing body UEFA: "It was clear that all other confederations were overwhelmingly in favor of expanding the FIFA World Cup to 48 teams starting in 2026.
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When the two teams met in Russia last year in the Confederations Cup semifinals, the Germans put a swift end to any Mexican hopes of taking the trophy.
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He is currently at the Confederations Cup in Russia with the Portuguese national team where his team mate Andre Silva said that Ronaldo was motivated for the tournament.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Germany coach Joachim Loew heaped lavish praise on his young, experimental team after they beat Chile 1-0 to win the Confederations Cup on Sunday.
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It's difficult, but there's not really an option to pull off because all of the world's game is governed by FIFA and the confederations and the individual federations.
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Block voting from regional confederations, long practiced in the organization was feared, as were delegates who may have sought encouragement to vote in one of the candidates' favor.
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Heck, it is only one-half of a battle to get to the Confederations Cup, which—while very fun—is just a dress rehearsal for the World Cup.
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Each of the meetings on Infantino's tour, including the most recent one held in Marrakesh, Morocco, has included about 50 federation leaders from across soccer's six regional confederations.
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Achilles was apparently chosen for the task due to the accuracy of his previous predictions of winners in last year's FIFA Confederations Cup, according to artnet's Caroline Goldstein.
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Under the proposals, the little-loved Confederations Cup, a World Cup warm up, would be scrapped, as would the current Club World Cup, an annual tournament in December.
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FIFA threatened to do that ahead of last summer's Confederations Cup in Russia, but after the chant took place at Mexico's first match, it issued only a warning.
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The title contenders Portugal and Mexico fought to a 2-2 draw in the Confederations Cup, with each team scoring in the final five minutes in Kazan, Russia.
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Meanwhile, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, sitting alongside Mutko at a Confederations Cup press conference, said Russian players were regularly tested in international competition and results always came up negative.
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With UEFA's competition set to fill the international dates left for friendly games, teams in other confederations will find it difficult to get windows for games against European nations.
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Last month, Osorio apologized for another outburst, this time directed at the opposing bench during Mexico's 2-1 group victory over New Zealand at the Confederations Cup in Russia.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police arrested suspects on Wednesday accused of defrauding sports confederations of public money, just three days after the Olympic Games ended in Rio de Janeiro.
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In addition to the individual member federations, you've got the confederations, the executive committee and all the other fiefdoms that make FIFA so chaotic and resistant to outside forces.
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The authorities say the Confederations Cup's ticketing system, which requires ticket holders to apply for a personalized fan-ID, will ensure that fans are screened and hooligans kept away.
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All eyes will be on Russia this June for the Confederations Cup and it is time for the country to confront and speak out against all forms of racism.
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I know chance had a hand in things, but it was probably a good idea to pit Russia against New Zealand for the opening game of the Confederations Cup.
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Briefing Russia, the host nation, fought valiantly but could not avoid early elimination at the Confederations Cup, losing to Mexico, 2-203, in Group A in Kazan on Saturday.
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Germany's Karem Demirbay—a Hoffenheim central midfielder—found himself drowning in a sea of indecisive Cameroonian defenders in today's Group B Confederations Cup group stage final, about 48 minutes in.
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Via the SBS, Optus also has the rights to show the 2018 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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Since May of last year, 2156 current and former FIFA officials—along with officials of many soccer federations and confederations across the world—have been indicted on various corruption charges.
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The Justice Department filed charges involving corruption in global soccer in May 2015, naming 14 officials at FIFA and its regional confederations responsible for organizing competitions like the World Cup.
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The "racketeering enterprise" identified in the indictment is FIFA, which has its headquarters in Switzerland, and the local confederations that for the most part have no presence in this country.
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However, unlike soccer's ruling body FIFA, which fined Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay for homophobic chants by fans earlier this year, the confederations decided to take no action.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan has criticized the global body's decision to cut off funding to corruption hit Americas confederations, calling it "collective punishment".
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A spokesman for FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee told Reuters that they had made the decision to stop the payments to the two confederations but declined to comment on Ali's statement.
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FIFA said that decisions were expected by October on the number of teams, the format for the tournament, the "eligibility of (continental) confederations to bid" and whether to allow joint bids.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio said Germany's young squad are experienced and will not be underestimated when the teams meet in the Confederations Cup semi-finals on Thursday.
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He had a five-year stint in charge of the U.S. national team, during which they finished runners-up in the 2009 Confederations Cup, after ending Spain's 35-match unbeaten streak.
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People in Sochi are strolling down the streets in blackface and Cameroonian football shirts in the leadup to a Confederations Cup match hosted in the city, where Cameroon will play Germany.
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Both Ali and Champagne have expressed concern over the fact that FIFA's continental confederations do not vote but often issue declarations of support for particular candidates, potentially skewing the election results.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - World soccer governing body FIFA said on Tuesday it had warned Mexico over what it said were "insulting and discriminatory" chants during their first Confederations Cup match in Russia.
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" UEFA, one of FIFA's six regional confederations, said on Wednesday that it had received a visit from the federal police "requesting sight of the contracts between UEFA and Cross Trading/Teleamazonas.
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Separately, the Justice Department announces its corruption probe has expanded, unsealing a 92-count indictment naming 16 new defendants in the case, all affiliated with FIFA's North and South American confederations.
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The new quadrennial event, announced in March, will replace the unpopular Confederations Cup, an eight-team national tournament that in recent versions had acted as a tuneup for World Cup hosts.
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In an effort to rotate the World Cup around the globe, FIFA blocks any of six confederations from hosting if they have been home to one of the previous two tournaments.
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So with four confederations either backing the United States bid or prohibited from challenging it, and South America focused on the 2030 race, that left only Africa as a wild card.
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He understands some of the criticism levied against V.A.R. during the Confederations Cup, but he is bullish on its future in M.L.S. if for no other reason than the officials' readiness.
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The three-storey portrait of Ronaldo was painted to welcome the five-times World Player of the Year when Portugal played in the capital of Tatarstan in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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The most frustrating defeat came in October, in extra time against Mexico in a one-game playoff for Concacaf's berth in next year's Confederations Cup, a precursor to the 2018 World Cup.
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Putin watched the 2014 World Cup final alongside Brazil&aposs then-president and opened last year&aposs Confederations Cup, the main World Cup test event, when Russia beat New Zealand 2-0.
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The versatile right back made his national team debut in 2016 and has since earned 29 caps, playing all 10 of their World Cup qualifiers and winning the Confederations Cup last year.
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Two national parties existed, but they were primarily confederations of state and local parties, which retained unique state and local identities and could offer jobs and other perks in exchange for support.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio was handed a six-game ban by FIFA on Friday for an outburst against match officials during the Confederations Cup third-place playoff against Portugal.
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Here's the new recommended distribution of the 48 slots: For the qualifying tournament, all the confederations but UEFA will send one team, and the host nation's confederation will fill the last slot.
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FIFA's six confederations represent different regions of the world: UEFA (Europe), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North and Central America), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (New Zealand and South Pacific island nations) and AFC (Asia).
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Chung's letters, if vague on implementation, were pretty clearly offers to send a shit ton of money to the confederations, which they could use in whatever way they wanted with zero oversight.
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Brazil has outscored the Americans, 251-266, including 17-2 since the United States took a 2-0 lead in the 2009 Confederations Cup final, only for Brazil to win, 3-513.
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The English soccer star-turned-broadcaster Gary Lineker and a Russian sports journalist, Maria Komandnaya, whom American viewers might remember from her sideline reporting for Fox during the Confederations Cup last summer.
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Mexico asserted its superiority in the second half against New Zealand to avoid a Confederations Cup embarrassment, coming from behind to win a fiery Group A encounter, 2-1, in Sochi, Russia.
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Soccer Roundup The title contenders Portugal and Mexico fought to a 24-21 draw in the Confederations Cup on Sunday, with each team scoring in the final five minutes in Kazan, Russia.
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Brazil have won every major international title, from the World Cup, which they have claimed five times, to the Copa America, the Confederations Cup, the under-20 and under-17 world championships.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Germany capitalized on an awful mistake and survived a whirlwind assault by Chile to claim a 1-0 victory in a pulsating, bad-tempered Confederations Cup final on Sunday.
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The plan was developed by the Bureau of the FIFA Council, a group made up of the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, and the presidents of each of the organization's six regional confederations.
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He was also under fire at the Confederations Cup last year for rotating the team, especially after a lackluster win over New Zealand and emphatic defeat against Germany in the semi-finals.
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One theory, among many, for the virus's appearance in Brazil is that it arrived in 20153, when Tahiti's soccer team, and hordes of fans, descended upon the country for the Confederations Cup.
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U.S. Soccer's offer would have been worth tens of millions of dollars for the South American teams, their regional rivals who took part, and the two confederations governing soccer in the Americas.
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Osorio was banned from last year&aposs Gold Cup after shouting at the fourth official when Mexico wasn&apost awarded a penalty during the third-place game against Portugal at the Confederations Cup.
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - FIFA has confirmed it is considering ways to expand UEFA's new Nations League tournament on a global scale with ongoing talks involving a number of regional confederations considering radical proposals.
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"We can confirm that in light of current proceedings involving individuals related to CONMEBOL and CONCACAF, FIFA has put contributions towards these two Confederations on hold until further notice," said a FIFA spokesperson.
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Miami-based CONCACAF, one of the six confederations within FIFA, has been at the center of the FIFA scandal which has seen 41 individual and entities indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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When the twins were born, the Portuguese National Team captain bowed out of the Confederations Cup to be with his children (with the support of the Portuguese Football Association and the team's manager).
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He stepped in to lead Concacaf, one of FIFA's six regional confederations, which oversees the sport in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, after its president, Jeffrey Webb, was indicted in May.
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These four cities are set to host matches in the Confederations Cup, a two-week tournament kicking off Saturday that will feature world champions Germany, the various regional champions and the host country.
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Trying to win its second consecutive Gold Cup and fourth in five tournaments, Mexico used the deeper reaches of its player pool following the World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup last month.
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We failed to qualify for the 2017 Confederations Cup, which Klinsmann himself called a "top priority", and we almost had our 2018 World Cup qualifying put into jeopardy by a critical loss to Guatemala.
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At a glance it bears some resemblance to the modern Confederations Cup, in that it was played in the country which would host the following year's World Cup as a sort of dry run.
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A tournament like the Confederations Cup is about so much more than what takes place on the pitch, and FIFA must make clear that fair play does not stop when the players walk off.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has boosted security and scrambled to finish an $800-million stadium as it banks on the eight-nation Confederations Cup to gauge its readiness to host the World Cup next year.
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Nobody was sure if the tournament would still be held until October 2025—that would be when the "seven months" countdown started—and both confederations announced Copa America Centenario would go ahead as planned.
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Referees in the men's game were able to get to grips with VAR at the 20033 Confederations Cup before last year's World Cup in Russia and as well from some domestic leagues across Europe.
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Mexico 333, Russia 1 KAZAN, Russia — Russia, the host nation, fought valiantly but could not avoid early elimination at the Confederations Cup on Saturday, losing to Mexico, 2-1, in Group A on Saturday.
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FIFA: A report financed by the global soccer body, two of its confederations and several top European leagues traced the signal of a large-scale piracy operation to a Saudi Arabia-backed satellite provider.
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In 26 matches competitive matches since Santos took over in September 2014, Portugal have won 20 and lost twice, with one of those being a penalty shootout defeat by Chile in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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Its revelation sent a shockwave throughout the soccer world, toppling three generations of leadership in FIFA's regional confederations overseeing North and South America, and leading to the resignation of the sport's governing body, Sepp Blatter.
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The FIFA Council agreed to the "general principle that member associations from confederations of the last two hosts of the FIFA World Cup will be ineligible to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup," FIFA said.
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But the reality is that the scale of the candidates' campaigns and the breakdown of the voting countries, who are grouped in largely continental geographic confederations, point toward either Mr. Infantino or Sheikh Salman winning.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Mexico scored twice in a busy second-half performance to overcome New Zealand 2-1 and destroy the All Whites dreams of securing their first Confederations Cup victory at the 11th attempt.
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"A meeting with the confederations will take place in due course but no date has been set yet," said a FIFA spokesman, confirming the planned talks were to discuss details of the offer from investors.
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"We don't have a style and to say that it this will change before the World Cup is like selling smoke," he said after Mexico lost 4-1 to Germany at last year's Confederations Cup.
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Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo's team lost to Chile at the 2017 Confederations Cup yesterday, but he still has a major reason to smile: Ronaldo welcomed twins and he's now officially a father of three.
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His rise from relative anonymity to the presidency of CAF, one of FIFA's largest regional confederations, was backed by Infantino, who in 2017 traversed Africa, expressing his support for Ahmad, a former politician from Madagascar.
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But the next summer, Mexico settled for a tie in the return match in Mexico City, then crashed out of the Confederations Cup in Russia weeks later with a humbling 4-03 loss to Germany.
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South America would have the next largest allotment, with six, and the remainder would qualify from the other regional confederations, including three from CONCACAF, the representative body for North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
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Visa-free entry was trailed at the Confederations Cup and will apply to the entire World Cup, which runs in 11 Russian cities from June 14 to July 15, and the ten days either side.
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As part of the agreement to move up the match two days to accommodate El Tri's participation in the Confederations Cup, which begins June 17 in Russia, Mexico assented to a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
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In the letter, Cordeiro said U.S. Soccer was offering to underwrite the new event and guarantee each nation — and both confederations — millions of dollars in appearance fees, subsidized travel and bonuses for each point earned.
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At last year&aposs Confederations Cup, Russian authorities blacklisted 22014 fans with criminal records, and just hours before the tournament began, dozens more, including members of some radical groups, were refused permission to attend the tournament.
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He has won the full support of the top soccer officials in Africa and Asia, FIFA's two most populous confederations, and this month seemed to win the backing of Russia, which had previously endorsed Mr. Infantino.
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"We had a very positive view on 2017 because the Confederations Cup should have become a trigger for beer, but restrictions on ... (plastic beer bottles) offset all the positives," Durdyev told a news conference this week.
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Remember when Michael Bradley ranted about "all the fucking experts in America, everybody who thinks they know about soccer" at the 2009 Confederations Cup, when pressure had built on then-head coach Bob Bradley, his father?
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The head of the smallest of FIFA's six global confederations suddenly resigned on Friday, surrendering his seat on FIFA's ruling council and becoming the latest senior soccer executive to depart the sport amid accusations of corruption.
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The subdued growth picture was reflected in Monday's data from the Confederations of Finnish Industries, which showed industry confidence dropping to -4 points from a revised -2 in October, compared with long term average of +1.
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One of the key questions for Brazil is which Paulinho will turn up — the rampaging bull who helped them to a stunning Confederations Cup win in 2013 or the timid player who disappeared a year later.
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In one corner, the 2017 Confederations Cup trophy rested on a shelf ("We need to send that to FIFA next week," Losa said), while medals for a youth World Cup were being finished across the room.
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FIFA said it would resolve those questions by May 2017, but said in a statement that the decision on the number of teams, formats and, intriguingly, the eligibility of confederations to bid was expected by October.
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The Games will cap 10 years of mega-events in Rio, starting with the Pan-American Games in 20163, followed by the 2011 Military World Games, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Germany survived a whirlwind assault by Chile and capitalized on an awful mistake by the South Americans to claim a 1-0 victory in a pulsating, bad-tempered Confederations Cup final on Sunday.
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Russia will host the next tournament in Europe in two years, and Qatar will carry Asia's flag in 22020, so their confederations, UEFA and the Asian Football Confederation, are already out of the bidding for 2026.
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Brazil was stretched to its financial and organizational limits by hosting the 2014 World Cup, and a 48-team tournament would be an enormous challenge for any country in FIFA's two other confederations, Africa and Oceania.
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The group is drawn from officials representing soccer's six regional confederations, and many have strongly resisted efforts to curb the privileged lifestyles they and their predecessors long enjoyed as members of FIFA's executive committee, now disbanded.
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Germany's inexperienced side was given a fright by Australia at the Confederations Cup in Sochi, Russia, holding on to win its Group B opener, 3-2, after goalkeeper Bernd Leno gifted the Asian champions both goals.
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Last year Shprygin, whose name is not included on a Russian Interior Ministry blacklist, was granted a fan ID to attend the Confederations Cup, but it was revoked hours before the start of the opening match.
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"Worker confederations reiterate their stance that they will not accept any proposal or negotiation aiming at withdrawing or weakening current labor and pension rights, or make even more precarious the existing labor relations," the statement said.
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Each of the six regional confederations had its own set of rights to sell, and in turn each of the more than 22012 national associations around the world had a variety of rights to offer as well.
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Van Marwijk was initially replaced by Edgardo Bauza but he was fired after just three friendlies to be replaced by Pizzi, who led Chile to the Copa America Centario and the final of the FIFA Confederations Cup.
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The difference was so apparent, in fact, that in 2017 Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, chose Krasnodar to take FIFA President Gianni Infantino on a tour before last year's World Cup warm-up tournament, the Confederations Cup.
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The vote did not take place; instead, FIFA set up a task force involving representatives from the six confederations and asked it to produce an acceptable plan before a scheduled FIFA Council meeting in March in Miami.
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Separately, Telefonica Brasil SA will pay a $2923 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges over incentives provided to 2292 government officials in connection with soccer's 2320 World Cup and 23 Confederations Cup.
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Taking into account the Confederations Cup, Argentina have lost seven major finals since 1995, three of them to arch-rivals Brazil, and four since Messi's debut in 2005, including the 2014 World Cup final defeat by Germany.
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In a statement on Wednesday, Prince Ali questioned Monday's announcement by FIFA that they had put on hold payments to CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, the two confederations that have been most affected by the corruption scandal engulfing football governance.
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"Nothing is standing in the way of using VAR (at the World Cup), as far as I'm concerned," Infantino told a news conference in the Russian city of St Petersburg on the eve of the Confederations Cup final.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - FIFA has cut off funding to the corruption-hit confederations for soccer in the Americas, the global football body said on Monday, in a move which could cause future cash flow problems for the two organizations.
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The news comes on the heels of Russia getting knocked out of the group stages in the Confederations Cup—which the country is currently hosting—and the year before they are set to host the 2018 World Cup.
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A decree signed by Putin last month sparked outrage among Kremlin critics after it imposed tighter restrictions on public gatherings and limited the use of air space and waterways over a 42-day period covering the Confederations Cup.
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The headliner item: the AP is reporting FIFA wants to hold a six team play-in tournament in the host nation the November prior to the World Cup, which would likely mean an end to the Confederations Cup.
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The three-storey portrait of Ronaldo was painted on a building behind the Ramada Hotel to welcome the five-times World Player of the Year when Portugal played in the capital of Tatarstan in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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As long as the violations have an impact in the United States, then RICO remains a powerful tool for the Justice Department to pursue cases like that involving the bribery carried out through FIFA and its regional confederations.
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"I am sure Zabivaka will be a massive hit among fans at the Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia," said Mutko, who is also head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and the local organizing committee.
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Australia, who play world champions Germany in Group B at the Confederations Cup in Russia on Monday, entered the stadium with cautious optimism after last week's win over Saudi Arabia reignited hopes of a fourth straight World Cup appearance.
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The Socceroos will also face African champions Cameroon and South American title holders Chile in their section at the Confederations Cup, which is a warm-up event for the World Cup in Russia next year involving the continental champions.
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Belgium continue to lead the world rankings ahead of last year's World Cup winners France and Brazil, with no changes to the top 20 due to the lack of fixtures involving teams from the European and South American confederations.
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The Confederations Cup could not have come at a more critical time for Russia, where the appetite for public protest is greater than it has been in years, despite the authorities' best efforts to discourage and intimidate potential protesters.
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But the idea of collective punishment, and especially for national associations that have nothing to do with what was happening — because the issue is with the confederations and how they are administered – I think that is a real shame.
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Europe's soccer confederation, UEFA, does not hold an Olympic qualifying tournament — the only one of the confederations that doesn't — and instead just takes the top three finishers in the World Cup for Europe's three spots in the Olympic field.
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It was a fine diplomatic effort considering that Messi and his teammates could also have had a view of a nearby mural of Cristiano Ronaldo that was completed before he played here with Portugal in the 210 Confederations Cup.
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"We discovered that about 30 victims (Nigerian women) were brought to the Confederations Cup in Moscow last year ... we expect to face the same problem during the World Cup this year," Siluyanova told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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The charged question of how to allocate the 48 slots among the sport's six continental confederations has yet to be determined, but it is certain to be the subject of fraught discussion, intense negotiation and high-stakes political calculus.
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In his letter inviting the South Americans, Cordeiro said U.S. Soccer was offering to underwrite the new event and guarantee each nation — and both confederations — millions of dollars in appearance fees, subsidized travel and bonuses for each point earned.
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Russia's form over the last two years, though, has been patchy: the occasional creditable result, like a draw against Spain, but sapping setbacks, too, including a heavy defeat against Ivory Coast and a disappointing display in the Confederations Cup.
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The Tahitian soccer team, which you may remember from being total badasses by scoring a highly improbable goal (we're talking about a country of 183,645 people, total) in the 2013 Confederations Cup, has gone and scored another highly improbable goal.
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"I urge each of you to support the reforms in full here this week, and then to implement them to their entirety at home," Hayatou said in an address aimed at the six confederations that run soccer around the world.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino signaled that he is in favor of introducing video assistant referees (VAR) at next year's World Cup following its success at the Confederations Cup, although he conceded the system needs to be improved.
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Predictions of the results of FIFA elections are famously unreliable, but many believe Sheikh Salman has emerged as the favorite because he has the backing of most of the countries in the FIFA confederations with the most members, Asia and Africa.
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But Oraz Durdyev, legal and corporate affairs director at the group's Russian unit, said last year's Confederations Cup contest - featuring the champions of world soccer's six regions plus the World Cup holders and hosts Russia - had not set a strong precedent.
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There are more permanent reminders of the tournament in the murals of Neymar and Messi painted near the team hotels to afford them the same honor that Cristiano Ronaldo received when he came to Kazan for last year's Confederations Cup.
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The Asian Cup has been responsible for almost all of the notable changes in this, the first ranking of 2019, with the scarcity of games in other confederations leaving the top 20 unchanged — with Belgium still being in pole position.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - With President Vladimir Putin in attendance and 44,000 tickets sold, Saturday's Confederations Cup opener will give Russia the chance to show off its preparations for next year's World Cup despite concerns over stadium security and infrastructure.
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The United States did not do well at the Gold Cup last year, did not qualify for the Confederations Cup, did not qualify for the Olympics and did not start this final round of World Cup qualifying with anything resembling success.
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It was a remarkable achievement for Germany to lift the trophy with a young, experimental squad, although it could also be a bad omen as no team has ever won the World Cup after winning the Confederations Cup the year before.
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SAO PAULO, March 15 (Reuters) - Brazilian civil servants, rural workers and labor confederations on Wednesday staged nationwide demonstrations against President Michel Temer's pension reform plan, with hundreds of protestors occupying the premises of the finance ministry in the capital Brasilia.
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The change to the bidding process — a proposal to make the host confederations of the 201994 and 22026 World Cups ineligible to bid for the 22017 event — was among several approved Friday in a meeting of the FIFA Council in Zurich.
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Should Argentina reach the Confederations Cup in 2021, or should Barcelona be included in FIFA's expanded Club World Cup the same year, by the time Qatar 2022 rolls around Messi will have had one extended break from soccer in a decade.
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Last week, at a board meeting of the Confederation of African Football, one of soccer's six continental confederations, Morocco made a proposal to underwrite training camps, travel costs and even stadium projects for some of the continent's 54 FIFA member nations.
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But the outcome of the bidding process may still be the same: FIFA is allowing only its confederations in Africa, South America and Oceania to submit proposals, and none are likely to produce an alternative to rival the North American bid.
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That rules out challenges from England and China, among other potential rivals, and FIFA's other confederations — representing South America, Africa and Oceania — would be hard-pressed to put together a plan that could challenge the resources available to a Concacaf campaign.
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It is no surprise, then, that the names of the overwhelming majority of those players selected for this summer's Confederations Cup by Stanislav Cherchesov, Slutsky's successor in charge of the Russian national team, will be unfamiliar to most fans outside Russia.
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It was a remarkable achievement for Germany to lift the trophy with such a relatively inexperienced squad, although it could also be a bad omen: No team has won the World Cup after winning the Confederations Cup the year before.
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Russia 2, New Zealand 0 St. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russia, the host nation, beat a poor New Zealand team, 2-0, on Saturday to open the Confederations Cup with a win that was all but demanded by Vladimir V. Putin, Russia's president.
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That pre-World Cup tournament would take place in the host country and match representatives from various confederations in play-in games, with the winners to face the top two teams in the FIFA world ranking that failed to qualify.
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"I think China has the financial capability to become the biggest league in the world," said the Australian, whose company is partner to more than 220 European football clubs as well as working with a number of confederations including Asia.
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In a report, "Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System," they saw two national parties that were but loose confederations of state and local parties, incapable of bringing forward coherent programs to the voters and carrying them out when they got into power.
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In June and July the newly opened stadium hosted several matches of the Confederations Cup, a second-tier tournament, meant to serve as a dress rehearsal for Russia's hosting of the FIFA World Cup next year (and, unavoidably, won by Germany's B team).
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Brazil scored after 12 seconds against Australia before completing a 4-0 rout in a friendly on Tuesday to hand the hosts a wake-up call before they leave for the Confederations Cup where they face Germany in their opener.
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Salman, who has widespread support in Asia and probable support from Africa after the two confederations signed a Memorandum of Understanding, is one of five men bidding to replace the banned Sepp Blatter as president when the election takes place on Feb.26.
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KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Mexico winger Hirving Lozano took advantage of an awful mix-up in the Russian defense to score an extraordinary goal which gave his side a 2-1 win and knocked the Confederations Cup hosts out of the tournament on Saturday.
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World Cup holders Germany and the six winners of FIFA confederations descend on Russia for the two-week tournament that will allow the hosts to assess the readiness of four of its World Cup venues and its ability to handle fans from overseas.
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A new pitch had to be laid at the 68,000-seat stadium less than a month before it hosts the Confederations Cup's opening match between Russia and New Zealand, after uprooted chunks of grass spoiled the first match at the new venue.
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But given the Germans' stellar tournament record with at least a semi-final spot in each of the last four World Cups, few would risk betting against them being ready on Sunday, especially after crushing Mexico 4-1 in last year's Confederations Cup.
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Though counterattacking soccer had gotten American teams into the knockout rounds of the World Cup and into the final of the 219 Confederations Cup, there remained a wide gulf in quality between the U.S. and the top clubs in Europe and South America.
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Infantino, the general secretary of European soccer's governing body UEFA since 2009, has promised to distribute 5 million dollars every four years to each FA for soccer development, plus $5.53 million to each of the six continental confederations over the same period.
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"Confederations have a lot of pull in how they organize the tournaments, and FIFA has to keep a much more watchful eye because these are FIFA tournaments and therefore they have to guarantee that things are done much more effectively," he said.
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The letters were mostly identical and described a $777 million kitty to be distributed by 2022 in order to "aid confederations and member associations to build new football infrastructure and renovate existing facilities" as well as train new coaches, administrators, and players.
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The letter, and pending investigation, is directed primarily at the North and South American confederations—CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, respectively—and FIFA flagged specific dollar amounts sent to Chuck Blazer (over $5.3 million) and former vice president Jack Warner ($4.4 million) as requiring restitution.
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"As demonstrated during the FIFA Confederations Cup last year, Russia's already high security standards have been adapted to meet the specific needs of such major sporting events," a FIFA spokesman told Reuters in February after another violent altercation involving Russian soccer supporters.
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The United States meets Panama at the Nissan Stadium in Nashville in this biennial soccer competition, featuring teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean, in which the winner earns a place in the qualifying playoffs for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup.
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Earlier this year, FIFA confirmed that it would bar the confederations in Europe and Asia from bidding for 2026, locking out possible rivals like England and China, because Europe will host the 2018 tournament in Russia and Asia the 20183 event in Qatar.
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Farmers last year reported locust clouds that were more than four miles long and nearly two miles high, said Juan Pablo Karnatz, a representative for the Province of Santiago del Estero at the Rural Confederations of Argentina, which represents more than 100,000 farmers here.
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PENALTY-TAKING PSYCHOLOGY On this basis, Fialho said he was able to forecast that when Vidal took a penalty in the Confederations Cup shootout against Portugal he would shoot to the left - which he did, scoring and sending Portugal goalkeeper Rui Patricio the wrong way.
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Sheikh Salman, South African politician and businessman Tokyo Sexwale and Prince Ali are among five candidates standing in the election, with the Jordanian fearing vote deals had been struck between the two confederations who will have a combined 100 votes in the 209-member poll.
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It makes more sense to look at patterns of travel than single sporting events The new timeline could mean that the virus was introduced in Brazil by travelers during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in 2013 — a tournament that involved French Polynesian participation from Tahiti.
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"IFAB believes the best way to answer the question of whether the use of VARs will improve the game is to test it in different regions, so we are delighted to already have competitions across four confederations sign up," said IFAB Secretary Lukas Brud.
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Russia take on New Zealand in St. Petersburg in the first match of the eight-nation Confederations Cup on a pitch that had to be hastily relaid after football officials deplored its quality when it cut up badly during a match there in April.
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But recognizing that the number of federations to recruit is not limitless, the Swiss have also set their sights on regional associations — European sports confederations, for instance — and other sports associations or businesses, like the International World Games Association, which opened an office last year.
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The state-owned carrier did not disclose the value of the deal, which it said would cover the Confederations Cup 2017, the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Club World Cup and the Women's World Cup in 2019 and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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The remaking of the competition from winter afterthought to potential summer moneymaker — a replacement for the Confederations Cup, an unpopular national-team competition usually held a year before the World Cup — has led to a major breakdown in relations between FIFA and European soccer's governing body, UEFA.
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Russia's form over the last two years, in a slate of warmup games, has been patchy at best: the occasional creditable result, such as a draw with Spain, but sapping setbacks, too, including a heavy defeat against Ivory Coast and a disappointing display in the Confederations Cup.
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Both Asia and Africa each have two teams with a chance to move on here this year, but two other entrants from those confederations, namely Saudi Arabia and Egypt, were destroyed by the home team, Russia, which was ranked 70th in the world coming into the tournament.
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Alexis Sánchez struck early to become Chile's all-time leading scorer as the South American champions were held by Germany's young squad to a 1-1 draw in Kazan, Russia, that left both teams in good position to advance to the semifinals of the Confederations Cup.
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As Löw was quick to point out as he reflected on Germany's victory, winning the Confederations Cup, even with "such a young side," does not mean that the Germans, the current World Cup champions, are certain to retain their crown when they return to Russia next summer.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - All four major Argentine farmers' groups will join a four-day crop sales strike slated for next week in protest of a recent increase in soy export taxes, a source with one of the groups, the Rural Confederations of Argentina (CRA), said on Thursday.
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Semyonov says authorities are using "a big database" to exclude people accused of taking part in football-related disorder — including Shprygin, whose ID was canceled two hours before a Confederations Cup game — but also some with convictions dating back 20 years for minor offenses like jaywalking or public drunkenness.
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Attacks on gays are not uncommon, and efforts to embrace multiculturalism have at times led to embarrassing incidents; before one of Cameroon's matches at this summer's Confederations Cup, the major tuneup event for the World Cup, a group of fans wore blackface in an official parade in Sochi.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 5 (Reuters) - All four major Argentine farmers' groups will join a four-day crop sales strike slated for next week in protest of a recent increase in soy export taxes, a source with one of the groups, the Rural Confederations of Argentina (CRA), said on Thursday.
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Germany 3, Cameroon 1; Australia 673, Chile 1 SOCHI, Russia — Germany, the World Cup champion, joined Chile, Mexico and Portugal in reaching the Confederations Cup semifinals on Sunday with a 3-1 victory over a Cameroon side reduced to 10 men after further confusion with experimental video replays.
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Applicants are vetted by the Russian security services, who have denied several thousand Russian fans ID to see games at the World Cup and last year&aposs Confederations Cup, according to Oleg Semyonov, formerly a leader of the Spartak Moscow fan scene, who now runs a legal advice hotline for supporters.
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Warned of a probe, corrupt FIFA officials could hide or destroy evidence, move assets, threaten possible witnesses, or even retreat to countries that don't have extradition treaties with the US. Chair of the FIFA Organising Committee for the Confederations Cup Chuck Blazer addresses a press conference in Frankfurt in June 2005.
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In 22014, for example, Blazer had helped negotiate a deal for the US television rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, a package that also included two Women's World Cups and two Confederations Cups, a smaller tournament played in World Cup host countries one year before the big event.
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The Americans then blew a chance to represent the region at the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia, an important dress rehearsal for the World Cup in that country a year later, when they lost to Mexico in a one-game playoff in October at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
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According to people familiar with their plans and a document summarizing their meeting obtained by The New York Times, they discussed the creation of a joint venture between FIFA and the European Club Association, a status that would elevate their interests above participating teams from soccer's five other regional confederations.
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"Moving the dial for women's football across our confederations and beyond sits at the very heart of our vision for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, as well as leading the way for gender equity and creating strong role models for women in leadership," Wood said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Opposing bids were unlikely, anyway; the first 48-team, 80-game World Cup will be an enormous undertaking, and with Europe and Asia blocked from bidding because their confederations will host the next two World Cups, and South America publicly focusing on 2030, the pool of potential bidders was small.
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What's next: The movement's most high-profile successes during the Obama years came from so-called "alt-labor" groups, or looser worker confederations that began as ways to promote awareness of the rights non-organized workers, and later launched activist campaigns like the "fight-for-15" movement in the fast food industry.
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Without adding boots on the ground, the United States should provide sufficient arms and political support to those who seek greater self-determination or independence from Iranian-backed or dominated capitals in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, transforming these states into loose confederations or new countries with borders that more naturally conform to sectarian lines.
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Klinsmann knew what he stood to lose, with U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati all but saying Jurgen's job was on the line after 18 months of not meeting expectations, including a failed Gold Cup, a lost opportunity at a Confederations Cup after losing to Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup, and falling to Guatemala in World Cup qualifying.
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"In some case your greatest challenge is not to show how you feel about the question," said Bob Bradley, who, as coach of the United States men's national soccer team at the 2009 Confederations Cup in South Africa, was asked at a news conference how the team was coping with the recent death of Michael Jackson before the final.
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