Brazil become the champion of FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 as people n media mostly predicted before, after ended USA spirit in very tight match. At half time, USA seems to repeated their magic by leading 2 goals in goals from Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan. USA played more effective football than Brazil in first half. Brazil could handle their frustasion and made quick goal in very beginning of the sesond half from Luis Fabiano's goal, and this name also made the score equal 2-2 in 75th minute. Finally, the scoreboard turned to the lead of Brazil when Captain Lucio's header met the net of Tim Howard in 85th minute, 3-2 for Brazil. Last night match showed that Brazil have higher level of class indeed, but USA have done some great job here and need to be considered in challenging next year world cup.
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Match Line-up.
USA: Tim Howard, Oguchi Onyewu, Jontahan Spector, Carlos Bocanegra, Jay De Merit, Landon Donovan, Clont Dempsey, Benny Feilhaber (Jonathan Bornstein 74), Ricardo Clark (Conor Casey 87), Jozy Altidore (Sacha Kljestan 74), Charlie Davies.
Brazil: Julio Cesar, Luizao, Maicon, Andre Santos (Dani Alves 67), Lucio, Gilberto Silva, Kaka, Ramires (Elano Blumer 65), Felipe Melo, Luis Fabiano, Robinho.
 | Statistics |  |
| 9 | Shots | 31 |
| 5 | Corner kicks | 10 |
| 1 | Yellow cards | 3 |
| 0 | Second yellow card and red card | 0 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 41% | Possession (%) | 59% |
On the 3rd place play-off, there was also a high tension performance. Spain took the 3rd place after working hard until the extra time. South Africa created the first goal in 73th minute by Katlego Mphela, but 15 minutes later Spain turned sthe score to 2-1 with both goals from Daniel Guiza. Almost done for Spain, Bafana-Bafana didn't yet gave up the match and Mphela made his second goal in 93. Spain lock the 3rd position in extra time when Xabi Alonso hit his freekick.
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