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It has always been the pinnacle of all dreams for the Brazilian player to wear the green and yellow shirt and represent the selecao at the landmark tournament The World Cup.

Recently, however, positivity for the national team has been at an all time low. And one year before the curtain raiser that is Brazil 2014, Felipe Scolari appears to be a hamster running on borrowed time.

If you live in the United States, here's the TV and Internet schedule for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup to be staged in Brazil from June 15-30, 2013.

MORE — ESPN Announces Coverage Plans For 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup On US Television and Internet

All times eastern

Saturday, June 15
Brazil vs Japan, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Sunday, June 16
Mexico vs Italy, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN
Spain vs Uruguay, 5:45pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Monday, June 17
Tahiti vs Nigeria, 2:45pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Wednesday, June 19
Brazil vs Mexico, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN
Italy vs Japan, 5:45pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Thursday, June 20
Spain vs Tahiti, 2:45pm, ESPN/WatchESPN
Nigeria vs Uruguay, 5:45pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Saturday, June 22
Japan vs Mexico, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN
Italy vs Brazil, 2:30pm, ESPNEWS/WatchESPN

Sunday, June 23
Nigeria vs Spain, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN
Uruguay vs Tahiti, 2:30pm, ESPN2/WatchESPN

Wednesday, June 26
Semi-final A1 vs B2, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Thursday, June 27
Semi-final B1 vs A2, 2:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Sunday, June 30
Third place game, 11:45am, ESPN2/WatchESPN
Final, 5:30pm, ESPN/WatchESPN

Post your questions about the schedule in the comments section below!

ESPN has announced that all 16 matches from this summer's FIFA Confederations Cup will be shown live on US television and Internet. The tournament, which will be held June 15-30 in six cities in Brazil, will be televised across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, WatchESPN and ESPN3.com.

Live match coverage will begin on Saturday, June 15, on ESPN and WatchESPN with the tournament's opening match – host country Brazil vs.

The draw for next summer's Confederations Cup was made in Sao Paulo today and it set up some interesting matches.

The Confederations Cup takes place in Brazil on 15-30 June 2013 when hosts Brazil line up in Group A with Japan, Mexico and Italy. While Spain, Uruguay and Tahiti will be joined in Group B by the champions of Africa, whose identity will be revealed after next February's CAF Africa Cup of Nations final.

Chelsea and Brazil's attacking midfielder, Oscar celebrated his 21st birthday with the national team in Recife, Brazil yesterday. As expected, the selecao's pastry chef conjured up a special fruitcake for the birthday boy, which was presented by his lovely wife Ludmila (above) in the morning right before their training session!

By DAN KARELL

In advance of the Confederations Cup this June, Brazil National Team manager Luiz Felipe Scolari released the list of 23 players that would make up Brazil's squad at the tournament.

Headlining the squad is Neymar, Hulk, Oscar, and Lucas, but what may be more interesting are the players who didn't get a call up for the international competition that begins on June 15.

Only three of six stadiums are ready for the 2013 Confederations Cup, scheduled for Brazil this summer.

"Not all operational arrangements will be 100 percent" for the Confederations Cup, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke wrote on FIFA's website. "The deadline for the FIFA World Cup stadiums delivery stands firm as December 2013.

One issue that had plagued the Gold Cup in the past is that countries have stacked their rosters with back-up players in the year that the winners did not qualify for the Confederations Cup.

Not anymore!!

CONCACAF announced on Friday that the winners of the 2013 Gold Cup will play the winners of the 2105 Gold Cup in a single-game playoff for a place in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

FIFA finally settled on a goal-line technology system that will be used at this summer's Confederations Cup, and if all goes well, next summer's World Cup. The German GoalControl system (demonstrated in the video above with an overly dramatic soundtrack) does not require any modifications to goals, nets or balls and uses high-speed cameras.

FIFA has selected GoalControl as the official goal-line technology company it'll use for this summer's Confederations Cup.

If the GoalControl technology is successful this summer, then it'll be used at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

GoalControl uses 14 high-speed cameras that are located around the pitch and directed at both goals.

As Brazil battles setbacks on the way to completing the 2014 World Cup stadiums that will be used in this summer's Confederations Cup, one of the certainties is that there will special seats reserved for obese fans.

A report in The Sun claims that the seats for obese people will be twice as wide as standard seats and reinforced to support a person who weighs up to 560 lbs.

The 2014 World Cup is fast approaching and the Confederations Cup will take place this summer, so there is little time left forpreparationsto be made ahead of the two tournaments. With that in mind, the more industrious prostitutes of Belo Horizonte, which will host three Confederations Cup matches and six World Cup games, are signing up for English classes so they can maximize their sexy-time profits.

This is a huge blow to Brazil's LOC for the World Cup as their chairman Ricardo Texeira quit Monday as the head of the Brazilian Football Federation and the 2014 World Cup organising committee on health grounds.

Brazil have in the past few weeks come under intense scutiny by FIFA for what the football body considers falling behind on major projects.

Brazil has announced a massive US Tour for this summer in which they will play the USA, Mexico and Argentina between May 30 and June.

With no World Cup qualifying for Brazil, they are the host nation in 2014, these three games will be important matches for Brazil as they get ready for the Confederations Cup in 2013.

Adu's brief reemergence to the international scene during the Gold Cup was one of the most intriguing stories of 2011. (Photo: Chris Aduama/aduama.com)

If 2011 was a roller coaster year of the U.S. Men's National Team, it was a ride that featured more plunges than peaks. A disappointing second place finish in the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup was followed by the sacking of head coach Bob Bradley after a five-year tenure that included a run to the 2009 Confederations Cup Final and a trip to the 2011 World Cup Round of 16.

The defending World and European Champions have announced that they will play Haiti on June 8 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami as part of their preparations for Confederations Cup in Brazil. Buy Spain v Haiti Tickets

Spain will spend a week in Miami training at Barry University before travelling to Brazil for the 2013 Confederations Cup, a 2014 World Cup tune-up that runs June 15-30.

By Chris Wright

A photo of Spain's new Adidas home strip for 2013 has been leaked and Todo Sobre Camisetas have mopped it up like thirsty puppies...

As far as we can make out, Spain will wear the strip at the Confederations Cup in Brazil in June, 2013, with the only noticeable differences between this 'special' design and La Roja's current kit being dark cuffs and that slightly awkward-looking 'V' across the chest.

By JOSE M. ROMERO

Brazil's soccer federation has moved quickly toward replacing fired national team coach Mario Menezes, with Luiz Felipe Scolari expected to be hired for the high-profle job, according to reports.

Scolari has coached Brazil before, leading the national team to its most recent World Cup title in 20o2.

Italy 2013 Confederations Cup home shirt unveiled by Puma - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Puma has revealed the Italy 2013 kit for the FIFA Confederations Cup.

In an event held in the training ground and headquarters of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in Coverciano, Florence, Italy, Puma presented the new kit with the help of Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo to the press.

Today, CONCACAF released the list of host cities and venues for the 2013 Gold Cup. Although Houston has played host to Gold Cup matches in past years, there is a change of venue for 2013 from Reliant Stadium to the brand new, soccer specific BBVA Compass Stadium. As of now, it's not clear what match(es) will take place in Houston, but since BBVA Compass Stadium has about 40,000 less seats than Reliant Stadium, it is likely that Houston won't play host to any of the big marquee matches this year (especially any matches involving Mexico).

Robert Downey Junior's footballing twin (the similarities are incredibly uncanny in this photo above!), Xavi Hernandez, has declared that he'd like nothing better than to win another World Cup for Spain at Brazil 2014. After all that delirium, you'd think the "La Furia" blokes would prefer to settle down and retire by the sandy beaches of Mallorca.

The Olympics are a funny thing. The whole world gathers together for a few weeks every fourth summer, and to a lesser extent every fourth winter. Top athletes in their respective sports collide, creating epic match-ups, compelling stories, and crazy-good TV ratings. But why exactly are those ratings so good?

Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque believes the first-half goals his side scored were key in Sunday's 4-0 win over Italy in the Euro 2012 final.

Despite the Azzurri dominating proceedings early on, it was Spain who hit the front foot in the 14th minute when David Silva opened the scoring, before Jordi Alba raced out of defence and doubled their lead four minutes before the interval.