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Neymar With a Magic Goal & Assist Hides a Boring Match (Brazil vs Mexico)
Once again, Brazil were far from impressive in both their defending and composure on attack, but their big star, Neymar, showed once again the kind of quality he has, with another fantastic volley goal in the 9th minute and a magical assist in the final minute, giving Jo another garbage time goal to sink Mexico out of the Confederations Cup.
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2013 Confederations Cup – Brazil vs Mexico Predictions
And still, 14 players who featured on both sides in the London Olympics last year, a gold-medal match won by Mexico 2-1, will be available to play in Frotaleza. Mexico also won the previous encounter between the senior sides (2-0) a year ago in Texas.
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Worst Teams in Confederations Cup History
Tahiti, with only one professional player in their squad for the 2013 Confederations Cup, are most likely to become the fourth nation in tournament history to finish the group stage with 0 points, following New Zealand, Australia and Mexico.
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2013 Confederations Cup – Mario Balotelli Needed to Get Angry (Mexico vs Italy)
Mario Balotelli finished the job Andre Pirlo started, as Italy got a deserved 2-1 win in their opening confederations cup match over Mexico, who didn’t have much to showcase except for some creative plays from Giovanni Dos Santos and Andres Guardado.
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2013 Confederations Cup – Mexico vs Italy Predictions
Never beaten Italy in an official match, Mexico have to rely on their relatively young attacking talents to try and make their Confederations Cup experience a bit better than their World Cup qualifiers so far, while the Italians hope to outdo expectations for a second straight summer.
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Squads for the 2013 Confederations Cup
Despite not being the most important of tournament, the favorites to win the Confederations Cup in 2013, a preparation drill for the World Cup in Brazil in 12 months, are all sending their strongest squads. The champions and host nation, Brazil, play in Group A with Japan, Mexico and Italy. In Group B, world and European champions Spain play with Uruguay, Tahiti and Nigeria.
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World Cup Qualifying – Strong Sides That Might Not Make It
With the World Cup Qualifying to Brazil 2014 more than half way through, it’s already easy to mark three teams that were favorites to qualify from their groups as being in deep trouble – Uruguay in South America, Mexico in the North American final group stage and Turkey in Group D of the UEFA qualifying, falling behind Romania and Hungary while it’s impossible to catch up with the Netherlands.
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Javier Hernandez Reduces Crime in Mexico
Some players don’t have to actually do stuff off the field to help the community. Javier Hernandez, aka Chicharito, playing for Manchester United these days and the biggest footballing sensation from Mexico in quite a while, makes things a bit safer in his home country simply by playing football.
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Javier Hernandez Scores The Easiest Goal of His Career (Mexico vs Bosnia)
Javier Hernandez didn’t have a great season with Manchester United, so the Bosnia defense decided to let him feel better about himself in a summer friendly. They poorly, or to be more exact, pathetically failed in clearing the ball, allowing Chicharito to score a 90th minute winner and give Mexico a 2-1 win in Chicago.
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2010 World Cup Diary – Day 17
Germany and Argentina advanced with some impressive displays but leave Mexico and England with bitter taste in their mouths after two huge mistakes by the referees, not seeing a Lampard goal and not seeing an offside when Tevez scored – Plus all the goals and best pics from today’s action.