Confederations Cup 2009 football tournament is going to end on 28 June with the final match between Brazil and USA. The match will take place at the Coca-ColaPark, Johannesburg and millions of football fans are now eagerly waiting for the match. USA caused an upset when they eliminated European champion Spain in the semi final with a 2-0 shocking victory. No doubt, USA players are now gearing up to cause another upset in the tournament final in order to ensure their biggest ever achievement in male’s soccer. Brazil may not have been at their best recently, but their performance so far in the tournament has been pretty much satisfactory.
Match: Brazil vs USA; Final; FIFA Confederations Cup 2009
Venue: Coca-ColaPark, Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: 28 June 2009
Time: 18:30 GMT
Live TV: ESPN
USA has showed excellent progress over the last few years and they have reputation as a giant killer, a tag they have proven in this tournament as well. American footballers know that the only defeat they suffered in this continental tournament came against Brazil when they lost the Latin American giants 3-0 in the group stage. Well, that may not affect the American footballers much, because they are now pretty much confident and determined after defeating African champions Egypt and European champion Spain. Naturally, their players are now left with something to prove against the Brazilians in the tournament final.
Brazil is clearly favorite against USA, but Brazilian players have no scope to show complacency against USA in the tournament. It is pretty much understandable that USA players would try their best to achieve their biggest ever success in football and they are now determined not to let the change go away. Brazil is traditionally a football powerhouse who has record 5 world cup titles and this is very important to note that they are the most successful team in Confederations Cup history with 2 titles alongside France.
Winning the tournament is very important for Brazilian coach Dunga because he is facing huge criticism from the football analysts for his defensive approach on the field. Attacking football is a tradition in Brazil and they have presented some of world’s biggest stars in the history of football. Well, I think, the Brazilian squad is currently going through a formation period and Dunga is perhaps trying to build the squad ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2010. Well, one thing is for sure that Brazil is not playing like Brazil at this moment, but I think, people should give some time to Dunga to prove his talent and skill as a coach.
USA has never been a striking force in football, but the American side has established themselves as a giant killer whom all other football playing nations would like to avoid. Even though they do not have any major success outside their continent, they occasionally defeat other football forces in international friendly matches. They have a quality midfielder in Clint Dempsey who is currently playing for English premier league club Fulham. USA forward line up includes some quality strikers like Charlie Davies, Landon Donovan and Jozy Altidore. USA also has an excellent goalkeeper in Everton’s Tim Howard who made some excellent saves against Spain. Despite having a balanced squad, it would not be easy for USA to cause another upset in the tournament final.
The Confederations Cup final goes down Sunday bright and early at 7:30 a.m. ET and if the United States hopes to win, they're going to have to score. Plain and simple. Brazil is 13-1 in head-to-head meetings with the United States and has outscored the U.S. 26-8.
Brazil always has some stars in its squad and they are always influential in world football. However, the current squad does not include as many stars as it did even during last world cup. Still, Brazil’s current squad features world’s most expensive player Kaka and Robinho in its attacking line up. Brazilian striker Luís Fabiano is currently the highest scorer in the tournament with 3 goals to his credit alongside Fernando Torres and David Villa. Brazil has some quality defenders like captain Lúcio, Barcelona defender Dani Alves and defensive midfielder Gilberto Silva. Well, I am not considering Gilberto Silva as a defender, but his defensive style of play at the centre of the midfield has been pretty much effective for Brazil and provides a much-needed aide to the defense.
Online Live Score and Updates
Here, I am giving some websites from where you can get the live score and updates of the match:
Live Score
Goalzz
Footie Scorez
Sportpress
Goal.com
I already mentioned that Brazil would start as a favorite, but it does not mean that USA would go into the field and allow Brazil to go away with the title. I am sure that Brazil is going to face tougher challenge from USA in the final and I hope that the final would be much more interesting and enjoyable than their previous one-sided meeting.
Confederations Cup 2009 started on 14 June and the tournament is currently going on in South Africa. The tournament features six continental champions alongside world champion Italy and host South Africa. Other six teams are: Brazil, Spain, New Zealand, Iraq, Egypt and USA. Initially, all the teams will be divided into 2 groups of four teams each and each and every team will face other teams in their group once. Top two teams from each group will qualify for the semi final stage based on the points achieved in the group stage.
LiveScore.com
As far as I know this is the most popular and widely known website for football live score. So, if you are really very desperate to get live score of the 8-team tournament, then I would recommend you this website and expect that you would not take any decision before visiting this site. Here, you can get live score of all international matches as well as matches of several popular football leagues. The home page of the site includes all the ongoing matches and the page is reloaded automatically after every few minutes. So, you do not need to refresh again and again during a match.
You can get the live score of the Confederations Cup 2009 matches in this website. Live Football Scores mainly focuses on English and Scottish leagues, but also covers some other European leagues. Moreover, you can get live scores of international friendly and international tournaments in this website. So, just go and visit the site to check if this is the site you were looking for.
This is one of the most popular websites on football (soccer) and this is one of the most popular sites for getting live score of the football matches. Goal.com provides the readers with live score of all international as well as several popular football leagues across the world. You also find several news and reports regarding football in this website. So, I think, before deciding on which site you are going to stick to during this all-continental tournament.
I would also suggest you to visit this website which is also very popular for giving live score of international as well as league games. The website offers live score of all the international matches. The website also covers several football leagues as well. You can also get schedule, TV broadcasting and other news regarding football tournaments in this site. So, I think, you should also visit this website.
FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 tournament is going to start from today and it is taking place in South Africa. You know that World Cup football 2010 is supposed to take place in the same place next year. So, you may consider the current tournament as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup for the organizers. Of course, earlier this year, South Africa hosted Indian premier league cricket the event and it was a total success for the country. Eight teams are participating and all of them are the champions of their own continent. Thus, we have Brazil as the current champion of Copa America. South Africa is the host country while Italy is the World Cup champion.
The participating teams are:
South Africa
Italy
USA
Brazil
Iraq
Egypt
Spain
New Zealand
In the group of states, the eight teams have been divided into two groups and the top two teams of each group will go to the semifinal. In Group A, the teams are South Africa, Spain, Iraq and New Zealand while in Group B, the four teams are: United States, Brazil, Egypt and Italy. It seems to me that from group a, Spain and SA I will go to the semifinals file in Kobe, Brazil and Italy are the favorites. The final match will take place on 29 June 2009.
Normally, in this blog, I have rarely written about football except the business aspect. The main reason is that Football is not a very popular game in south Asia. In fact, in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and three Lanka, it is in a distant second position compared to cricket when the matter of popularity comes. It makes me sad because I am a passionate supporter of this game. I feel that South Asian people are losing a lot by not giving adequate importance to football. I think this way because it is the most popular and richest sports in the world. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all have won the championship of World Cup Cricket one time each. However, this win hardly counts outside of South Asia because even in England, now a days, cricket has hardly any popularity compared to football.
Anyway, if you want to get detailed information about FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 then visit the following websites:
I think that Brazil, Italy and Spain are the top favorites and any of them will win the trophy. However, I also like to see South Africa doing well because then it will give a boost to their preparation of World Cup 2010.
