FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 Discussion Thread
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Giaccherini is indeed Prandelli's pet. Not worthy of a place in the Azzurri XI, but not worthy of the hatred either - very versatile, well disciplined, excellent work rate. His runs upfront aren't non-intelligent either, just doesn't have a finish to back the same. I was more concerned about Marchisio playing hide and seek yesterday than anything else - went completely invisible.
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This has been an entertaining tournament so far, but I have a question about how teams get invited to the tournament. Tahiti haven't won anything have they (how could they - they're terrible). What's the point of a team being in a tournament simply to provide everyone else with a goal difference boost? They shipped six vs Nigeria; it could've been double that number easily, and next they play Spain. Since Tahiti are there, it's clearly not limited to those who have won their 'local' International tournament (or the World Cup). 
A new goalscoring record for International matches is a distinct possibility.
A new goalscoring record for International matches is a distinct possibility.
The Oceania Nations Cup that they won was an absolute farce. They had one pitch and played 16 games on it in 10 days, and it was nothing better than your local park. All of the the games were during the heat of the day which played right into all of the Pacific Island team's hands, and the standard of reffing was pretty terrible. For the substitutions they didn't even have an electronic board, they just had paper with the numbers on. We did play horribly so I'm not making any excuses for us not winning it, but it was pretty atrocious for FIFA to sanction something like that.
You only really have to look at the world cup qualifying table to see where the teams are really at. Tahiti finished on 3 points with 1 win in their 6 matches, and we won all 6 of our games, 5 of them by 2+ goals.
They probably won't show it here at the Confed's Cup, but in their WC qualifying game against us down here Tahiti were real thugs. The pretty much spent the whole game trying to take our players out, and the reffing was again very average.
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Sooooo... how badly are Tahiti going to get thrashed today? 10-0? 15-0? It could easily have been 10-0 the other day and that was only against Nigeria.
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Sarcasm? Possibly. But if not: come off it; even if Spain put out a complete B-Team, it will be at least 5-0. Hell, Spain's U21s would beat that lot 5-0.
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This has been an entertaining tournament so far, but I have a question about how teams get invited to the tournament. Tahiti haven't won anything have they (how could they - they're terrible). What's the point of a team being in a tournament simply to provide everyone else with a goal difference boost? They shipped six vs Nigeria; it could've been double that number easily, and next they play Spain. Since Tahiti are there, it's clearly not limited to those who have won their 'local' International tournament (or the World Cup).
A new goalscoring record for International matches is a distinct possibility.
This is how the teams qualified for the Confederations Cup:
Brazil - next World Cup hosts
Italy - European Championship runners-up
Japan - Asian Cup winners
Mexico - Gold Cup winners
Nigeria - African Cup of Nations winners
Spain - World Cup & European Championship winners
Tahiti - Oceania Nations Cup winners
Uruguay - Copa America winners
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Fair enough; that clears it up I guess. We won't be seeing England at a Confederations Cup any time soon then.
So - 10-0 to Spain; it could've been a lot worse for Tahiti.
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