1999 FIFA Confederations Cup

1999 FIFA Confederations Cup
The 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup was the fourth FIFA Confederations Cup, and the second organised by FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Mexico between 24 July and 4 August 1999.
It was won by Mexico, who beat Brazil 4–3 in the final. Mexico became the first host nation to win the FIFA Confederations Cup. The competition was to originally be held in three stadiums, in three cities in the country. However, since the stadiums in Monterrey were sponsored by a competing beer company other than the official advertiser, the city was left out of the tournament altogether. The tournament was originally scheduled for 8–20 January 1999, but was rescheduled by FIFA on 17 November 1998 to accommodate the scheduling of the participating European teams.
The tournament was organized in two groups of four teams, in which two teams from both groups advanced to the semi-finals.
Venues
Matches were played at two venues: the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City served as the venue for matches in Group A, while the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara hosted matches in Group B. Each of the venues also hosted one of the semi-finals; the final was played at the Azteca and the third place play-off was played at the Jalisco.
Teams
Qualification
The tournament featured eight teams, representing the six continental confederations. Mexico qualified as both the host nation and the winners of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, so the CONCACAF berth was given to the United States. France also qualified automatically as winners of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but they declined to participate; World Cup runners-up Brazil took their place, which meant Bolivia replaced Brazil as the CONMEBOL representatives, having finished as runners-up in the 1997 Copa América. The other four places went to the winners of the most recent continental competitions: Germany (UEFA), Saudi Arabia (AFC), Egypt (CAF) and New Zealand (OFC).
Squads
Match officials
Africa
Coffi Codjia
Asia
Kim Young-joo
Europe
Anders Frisk
North America, Central America and Caribbean
Gilberto Alcalá
Brian Hall
South America
Ubaldo Aquino
Óscar Ruiz
Group stage
All times CST (UTC−6).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each). If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Marzouk Al-Otaibi and Ronaldinho are the top scorers in the tournament with six goals each. Ronaldinho won the Golden Shoe award by having more assists than Blanco and Al-Otaibi. In total, 55 goals were scored by 29 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
6 goals
Ronaldinho
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Marzouk Al-Otaibi
4 goals
Alex
3 goals
Zé Roberto
José Manuel Abundis
2 goals
Rôni
Samir Ibrahim
Miguel Zepeda
Brian McBride
1 goal
Limberg Gutiérrez
Renny Ribera
Marcos Paulo
João Carlos
Serginho
Abdel Sattar Sabry
Yasser Radwan
Ahmed Hassan
Michael Preetz
Lothar Matthäus
Pável Pardo
Francisco Palencia
Chris Zoricich
Nawaf Al-Temyat
Ibrahim Al-Shahrani
Jovan Kirovski
Ben Olsen
Joe-Max Moore
Paul Bravo
Tournament ranking
Awards
The following Confederations Cup awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: the Golden Boot (top scorer),
and Golden Ball (best overall player).
Notes
External links
FIFA Confederations Cup Mexico 1999, FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)
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