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FIFA and Confederations
The FIFA Confederations Cup is contested by the winners of all 6 continental championships, the current FIFA World Cup champions and the country which is hosting the Confederations Cup.
They are also the most successful team in the FIFA Confederations Cup with three titles.
Brazil are the current holders of the FIFA Confederations Cup after winning the 2005 and the 2009 edition of the tournament.
The Brazilian team won the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.
Bosnich also appeared for the Socceroos at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup.
* The number that footballer Marc-Vivien Foé wore for the French clubs Lens and Lyon, retired by both clubs after his death from heart failure during a semifinal match in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.
* Confederations Cup – Held one year before the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan, this tournament served as a prelude, for both South Korea & Japan and the participating nations.
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The championship winners earn the opportunity to compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but are not obliged to do so.
The highest finishing member of CONMEBOL has the right to participate in the next edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, but is not obligated to do so.
The title holders at the time of a FIFA Confederations Cup qualify for that competition.
The winning team becomes the champion of Asia and automatically qualifies for the FIFA Confederations Cup.
When it does not fall the same year as an edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, the winner, or highest placed team that is a member of both CONCACAF and FIFA, qualifies for the next staging of that tournament.
No competition was held in 2006, but in the 2008 edition, which also acts as a qualification tournament for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and for a play-off for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the New Zealand All Whites emerged as winners.
In 1996, when OFC reached the official status of Confederation for FIFA, the tournament reappeared as the " Oceania Nations Cup " and served as a qualifier for the Confederations Cup.
Thanks to this result, this Australian team, managed by the English Terry Venables and not by the Scottish Oceania Champion Eddie Thomson, took part to the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia, finishind second losing the final match against Brazil.
Australia won their third title by a score of 2-0, qualifying for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup.
FIFA and Cup
* 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.
Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Bud United ’ s first efforts were centered around the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.
Copacabana Beach plays host to millions of revellers during the annual New Year's Eve celebrations and, in most years, has been the official venue of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
; 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Left out of the Italian starting eleven in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Zoff resumed his success after signing for Juventus in 1972.
However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup.
* FIFA World Cup
Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
England contest the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Football Championships which alternate biennially.
The England team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Most EBU broadcasters have a group deal to carry the Olympics and FIFA World Cup ( particularly, the games of their country and the Final ).
This is generally regarded as a warm-up tournament for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and does not carry the same prestige as the World Cup itself.
The winners of each continental competition contest the FIFA Club World Cup.
The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated in 1991 and has been held every four years since.
FIFA and 2003
Zidane was voted as FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions ( 1998, 2000 and 2003 ), a feat matched only by his former Real Madrid team mate Ronaldo, and also won the Ballon d ' Or in 1998.
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U. S. Soccer had the honor of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 1994, the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999 and 2003, and the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1996.
FIFA issued new guidelines for interpreting the offside law in 2003 and these were incorporated in Law XI in July 2005.
As compensation, China retained its automatic qualification to the 2003 tournament as host nation, and was automatically chosen to host the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Some matches in the FIFA Women's World Cup were played there in 2003.
Davids was selected to appear on the cover of the football game FIFA Football 2003 alongside Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs and Brazilian international Roberto Carlos.
Foé was part of the Cameroon squad for the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, a tournament played between continental champions.
Between 1993 and 2003, Rivaldo played 74 matches and scored 34 goals for the Brazil national football team and was an integral part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup winning Brazilian team.
* Mar del Plata has also hosted the 1995 Pan American Games, the 2003 Parapan American Games, the 2005 FIBA Under-21 World Championship, and co-hosted the 1978 FIFA World Cup and the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship.
He represented England U20 at 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.
The FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 was held in the United States and won by Germany.
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In 2003, he played in the FIFA ' Match against Poverty ' as part of a star-studded ensemble showcasing the world's best players.
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It was one of the host venues of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the main stadium for the 2003 Summer Universiade and the main venue of the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.
The 2003 FIFA World Player of the Year award was won by Zinedine Zidane for a record-equalling third time.
Additionally, the venue hosted 2002 MLS Cup and four games of the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.
It has hosted international soccer matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1996 Summer Olympics and 2003 Women's World Cup.
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