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2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 12:30am On Jun 16, 2017
1. The FIFA Confederations Cup is a quadrennial international men’s football tournament Organised by the World football ruling body FIFA .

2. The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup will be hosted by Russia from 17 June to 2 July 2017; it is a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The 2017 edition will be the 10th in the history of Confederations Cup.
3. Also known as the Tournament of Champions, the FIFA Confederations Cup is a curtain-raiser for the World Cup holding the year after. It is a tournament that brings together the champions of the six confederations registered under FIFA.
4. Four different stadiums across four cities will host the matches: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and Sochi. It will be the first time Russia hosts the tournament, and the third time the Confederations Cup is held in Europe.

5.Russia Qualified as host, Russia Qualified December 2nd 2010 when she was announced as host country for the 2018 FIFA World Cup; thus she qualified for her first ever FIFA Confederations Cup as hosts.
6. The final tournament will be played in two stages: a group stage and a latter knockout stage. In the group stage, each team will play three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage. In the knockout stage, the four teams will compete in single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final match of the tournament. A third-place match will also be played between the two losing semi-finalist teams.
7. Russia will be joined in this tournament by the six winners of the FIFA confederation championships and the 2014
FIFA World Cup winner

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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by superior494(m): 12:48am On Jun 16, 2017
Interesting
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 8:46am On Jun 16, 2017
8. The defending champions, Brazil, who won the previous three Confederation Cups (2005, 2009,2013), failed to qualify (for the first time since 1995) following their loss on penalties to Paraguay in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Copa América.

9. Asian Cup winners Australia became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005

Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 6:27pm On Jun 16, 2017
Mean While you can drop your prediction for the games #FIFAConfederationsCup2017

Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 12:40pm On Jun 17, 2017
9. Asian Cup winners Australia became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005

10. The eight competing teams are the host nation RUSSIA, the reigning World Champion GERMANY, AUATRALIA as Asian champions, CHILE were the fourth team to secure a spot at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup as the 2015 Copa América winners. MEXICO qualified as CONCACAF Champions, NEW ZEALAND as OFC champions, PORTUGAL as the European champion. And the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners, CAMEROON, make up the list of eight teams competing this year.

11. This will be the first time in FIFA Confederations Cup history that three national teams from any single confederation (Russia, Germany and Portugal from UEFA) will participate in the tournament.
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 3:03pm On Jun 18, 2017
Whats you Predictions for today's game between the Indomitable lions of Cameroon the African champions and the La Roja the CONCAF Champions Chile.

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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by MrsEvakinqz(m): 4:12pm On Jun 18, 2017
Facts you said and Fact it is... #Niceone.
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 4:13pm On Jun 18, 2017
The First Game of the day between the European Champions "Portugal" and the is North American Champion "Mexico" is under way send your Predictions in ... for me its 3:1
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 6:21pm On Jun 18, 2017
The Portugal and Mexico game ended in a 2 all draw so Russia the host nation still tops the group with 3 points while Portugal and Mexico have one Each with New Zealand having no point after loosing to Russia 2:1 yesterday in the opening game of the tournament

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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 8:48pm On Jun 18, 2017
Its 87 minutes into the game between Cameroon and Chile, its 1 nil in favour of the South American team
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 8:05am On Jun 19, 2017
The South American Champions wins the match against the African Champions 2 nil in favour of the Chileans
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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 11:48am On Jun 21, 2017
Today its a big day in The #FIFAConfederationsCup2017 its the Champions of Europe against the Champions of the South American Champions Germany Vs Chile send in your Prediction now

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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 10:53pm On Jun 21, 2017
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 7:47pm On Jun 22, 2017
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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 7:39pm On Jun 25, 2017
The African Champions crashes out of the Confederations cup 2017
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by iluvpomo(m): 8:12pm On Jun 25, 2017
vivaAfrica:
The African Champions crashes out of the Confederations cup 2017
They were just simply terrible. Against Australia, they missed opportunity after opportunity. Against the small boys (B team) of Germany, they could not even create an opportunity.
African soccer in general is in decline ... see our beloved Super Eagles undecided
Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 6:41am On Jun 27, 2017
You are on point i don't know if i should use the word MEDIOCRITY or what, but something needs to be done about it fast.

iluvpomo:
They were just simply terrible. Against Australia, they missed opportunity after opportunity. Against the small boys (B team) of Germany, they could not even create an opportunity.
African soccer in general is in decline ... see our beloved Super Eagles undecided

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Re: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: 11 Interesting Facts You Need To Know by vivaAfrica: 9:48am On Jul 04, 2017
The Confederation cup 2017 have come and gone but what remains is the positives we can draw from the tournament like the Young German team that emerged victorious and some other interesting facts....
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