<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1cf7dd43-3b52-4ea0-b01a-6b3f29d04451/B0A8F8F8-ACF4-402E-8E8F-C07ED25C2B5C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/21929541-A76B-4AEA-BD3E-B3F9FCC18835" alt="Robinho (left) and Ronaldinho celebrate in 2005" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><DIV class="cap">Robinho (left) and Ronaldinho celebrate Brazil's 2005 Confederations Cup win</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><P>So, what is the Confederations Cup? How did it start? And what do the home nations have to do if they want to get involved? Read BBC Sport's guide to Fifa's best-kept secret... </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><P>The competition began life in 1992 as the King Fahd Cup, the brainchild of the late Saudi Prince Faisal ibn Fahd. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbgf"><DIV class="sihf"> CONFED CUP WINNERS (hosts) </DIV> <DIV class="mva"><DIV class="bull"><B>1992:</B> Argentina (Saudis)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>1995:</B> Denmark (Saudis)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>1997:</B> Brazil (Saudis)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>1999:</B> Mexico (Mexico)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>2001:</B> France (S Korea/Japan)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>2003:</B> France (France)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>2005:</B> Brazil (Germany)</DIV> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbgf"><DIV class="sihf"> A CONFEDERATIONS CUP XI </DIV> <DIV class="mva"><DIV class="bull"><B>1.</B> Iker Casillas (Spain)<BR /><B>2.</B> Daniel Alves (Brazil)<BR /><B>3.</B> Fabio Grosso (Italy)<BR /><B>4.</B> Carles Puyol (Spain)<BR /><B>5.</B> Fabio Cannavaro (Italy)<BR /><B>6.</B> Xavi (Spain)<BR /><B>7.</B> Pirlo (Italy)<BR /><B>8.</B> Kaka (Brazil)<BR /><B>9.</B> David Villa (Spain)<BR /><B>10.</B> Fernando Torres (Spain)<BR /><B>11.</B> Steven Pienaar (South Africa)</DIV> <DIV class="bull"><B>Subs:</B> Buffon, Maicon, Zambrotta, Fabregas, Dempsey, Toni, Pato</DIV> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/FDAB71A6-939C-467C-B317-DBD892298B9E" alt="Ellis Park" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/ADCD514D-D8B7-4064-BDE0-2A34F862D34F" alt="Ronaldo (left) and Romario" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8088226.stm"><DIV class="cap">Ronaldo and Romario fired Brazil to Confed Cup glory in 1997</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B0A8F8F8-ACF4-402E-8E8F-C07ED25C2B5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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