2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final

2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final
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Event	2007 FIFA Club World Cup
Date	16 December 2007
Venue	Nissan Stadium; Yokohama, Japan
Man of the Match	Kaká (Milan)
Referee	Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
Attendance	68,263
Weather	Clear night; 8 °C (46 °F); 33% humidity
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The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final took place at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan on 16 December 2007.

The match pitted Milan of Italy, the UEFA club champions, against Boca Juniors of Argentina, the CONMEBOL club champions. Milan won 4–2 in a match watched by 68,263 people. In doing so, Milan won their fourth FIFA Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup and avenged their 2003 Intercontinental Cup defeat to Boca Juniors. Milan also overtook Boca Juniors, Nacional, Peñarol, Real Madrid and São Paulo as the only team to have won the competition four times. Kaká was named as man of the match.^[2]

Road to final[]

Argentina Boca Juniors	Team	Italy Milan
CONMEBOL	Confederation	UEFA
Winner of the 2007 Copa Libertadores	Qualification	Winner of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League
Bye	Play-off round	Bye
Bye	Quarter-finals	Bye
1–0 Tunisia Étoile du Sahel (Cardozo Goal 37')	Semi-finals	1–0 Japan Urawa Red Diamonds (Seedorf Goal 68')

Match[]

Details[]

16 December 2007 19:30 (UTC+9)	Boca Juniors Argentina	2–4	Italy Milan	Nissan Stadium, Yokohama Attendance: 68,263^[1] Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)^[1]
	Palacio Goal 22' Ledesma Goal 85'	Report	Inzaghi Goal 21', 71' Nesta Goal 50' Kaká Goal 61'

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Boca Juniors

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Milan



GK	12	Argentina Mauricio Caranta
CB	20	Argentina Jonathan Maidana
CB	29	Argentina Gabriel Paletta	Booked 73'
CB	3	Paraguay Claudio Morel Rodríguez
RM	4	Argentina Hugo Ibarra	Booked 40'
CM	15	Uruguay Álvaro González		Substituted off 67'
DM	5	Argentina Sebastián Battaglia	Booked 55'
CM	24	Argentina Éver Banega
LW	19	Argentina Neri Cardozo		Substituted off 68'
SS	14	Argentina Rodrigo Palacio
CF	9	Argentina Martín Palermo (c)
Substitutes
MF	8	Argentina Pablo Ledesma	Red card 88'	Substituted in 67'
MF	11	Argentina Leandro Gracián		Substituted in 68'
Manager
Argentina Miguel Russo



GK	1	Brazil Dida
RB	25	Italy Daniele Bonera
CB	13	Italy Alessandro Nesta
CB	4	Georgia (country) Kakha Kaladze	Red card 77'
LB	3	Italy Paolo Maldini (c)
CM	8	Italy Gennaro Gattuso		Substituted off 65'
CM	21	Italy Andrea Pirlo
CM	23	Italy Massimo Ambrosini	Booked 22'
AM	22	Brazil Kaká	Booked 62'
AM	10	Netherlands Clarence Seedorf		Substituted off 87'
CF	9	Italy Filippo Inzaghi		Substituted off 76'
Substitutes
MF	5	Brazil Emerson		Substituted in 65'
DF	2	Brazil Cafu		Substituted in 76'
MF	32	Italy Cristian Brocchi		Substituted in 87'
Manager
Italy Carlo Ancelotti

Man of the Match:
Brazil Kaká (Milan)^[2]

Assistant referees:
José Luis Camargo (Mexico)^[1]
Pedro Rebollar (Mexico)^[1]
Fourth official:
Mark Shield (Australia)^[1]

Match rules

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Twelve named substitutes.
Maximum of three substitutions.

Statistics[]

Overall^[3]
	Boca Juniors	Milan
Goals scored	2	4
Total shots	17	14
Shots on target	9	7
Ball possession	49%	51%
Corner kicks	5	2
Fouls committed	22	14
Offsides	4	3
Yellow cards	3	2
Red cards	1	1

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 "Match Report" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/07_1216_arg-ita_fulltime_31992.pdf. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Toyota Cup - Most Valuable Player of the Match Award". RSSSF. 20 December 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyotamvp.html. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
↑ "Match Statistics". FIFA. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012. http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/clubworldcup/japan2007/results/match=61295/statistics.html. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

External links[]

FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007, FIFA.com
Technical Report and Statistics (PDF), FIFA.com

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[match_report-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 "Match Report" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/07_1216_arg-ita_fulltime_31992.pdf. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

[MoM-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Toyota Cup - Most Valuable Player of the Match Award". RSSSF. 20 December 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyotamvp.html. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[stats-3] "Match Statistics". FIFA. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012. http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/clubworldcup/japan2007/results/match=61295/statistics.html. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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