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The United States' impressive showing in last summer's Confederations Cup, particularly, buffed Bradley's reputation as a fine motivator.

We've just played the toughest team in Group C, a team who got to the final of the Confederations Cup, and were a right banana skin.

We played against Zico in the last Confederations Cup, and that was already a difficult experience. It was an extremely difficult game.

But you can't argue with one defeat in two years, not to mention a Confederations Cup win and qualifying on top in South America.

In addition, branding around the Confederations Cup was not "elaborate" enough and accommodation had to be improved.

The Confederations Cup would be nice but clearly the number one objective is to do really well at the World Cup.

Throwing the country a lifeline, FIFA announced that it would rotate the tournament between football confederations.

Nuremberg will be one of the 12 host cities for World Cup matches in 2006 and was also a venue for Confederations Cup matches in June 2005.

Andrea Dossena is hoping for a starting role when Italy take on USA in their opening Confederations Cup match tonight.

Confederations Cup draw now takes place after Oceania Nations Cup final and thus picks up the winner correctly now.

On the field, Torres is hoping for Confederations Cup glory with Spain as they now face shock semi-finalists USA on Wednesday night.

They don't doubt him after we won the Copa America, the Confederations Cup and finished top of our qualification group.

Seven months earlier Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe collapsed and died while playing in the Confederations Cup tournament in France.

We have too many games during the year with too many competitions with the World Cup, the Confederations Cup and the African Cup of Nations.

Alvaro Arbeloa insists Spain head into this weekend's Confederations Cup tournament in South Africa full of confidence.

Valencia playmaker Pablo Aimar says that playing in the Confederations Cup will get him fully fit for the new Spanish season.

The Confederations Cup is contested by each of the six Fifa Confederation Champions, along with the World Cup winners and host nation.

Maintain good relations with the other continental football confederations and FIFA.

The U. S. soccer team is in the final of the Confederations Cup, beating mighty Spain 2-0.

ROME - Brazil have reinforced their leadership in the FIFA World Ranking on the back of success in the Confederations Cup.

Spain were on the verge of a new world record for games unbeaten before losing 2-0 to the USA in Wednesday's Confederations Cup semi-final.

Lippi overlooks last summer's Confederations Cup, in which his team lost to Egypt and Brazil.

Khoza said FIFA would not ban it, adding that a lot of visitors during the Confederations Cup had taken a vuvuzela home.

We had to approach our trip to Asia differently with players joining us after the Confederations Cup.

The Confederations Cup is held the year before the World Cup in the same country and is used as dress rehearsal for the main stadiums.

If anything, the Confederations Cup helped us realise that if you have a bad day at the World Cup, you can be on your way home.

Fernando Torres is among a list of 10 contenders for the Confederations Cup Golden Ball award.

By theact of registering, a player agrees to abide by the Statutes and regulations ofFIFA, the confederations and the Associations.

This included one-off payments of $550, 000 for each national body and $5m for each of the six regional confederations (eg, the AFC).

The world champion has a chance to avenge its 2009 Confederations Cup 2-0 loss against the United States men's national team.

I only got to know South Africa last year during the Confederations Cup and it's a country which fascinates me.

It is attacked from below by demands for devolution and from above by supranational confederations, such as the EU and NAFTA.

But Torres is set to play for Spain at the Confederations Cup in South Africa this summer.

And this is happening in the time that we heard this morning from the three labor confederations that unions are disappearing in Colombia.

Following last year's Confederations Cup, there were complaints from coaches, players and broadcasters about the noise.

Hopefully we will do well at the Confederations Cup and then show what we can do at the World Cup next year.

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But the USA managed it at the Confederations Cup, and deservedly, so it can be done. AL