The Final Sub

LOEW RECEIVES FIRST INSTALLMENT The FIFA Confederations Cup came to a head on Sunday at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia as the prelude to the main show to be staged next year ending in thrills and drama. In the end, it was a young burgeoning Germany side that pipped a golden generation side from Chile, thanks to a 20 th minute goal from Lars Stindl.  It was an epic end to a tournament that had a lot of drama before, during and even after it especially with FIFA’s test run of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system which sparked its own controversies and somewhat threatened to pour scorn on the tournament with some baffling scenarios created from the group stages up to the final. The important note there for Gianni Infantino is for him and his team to look into their project and find solutions. Such jokes would not speak well in the FIFA World Cup proper. However, for Germany and their young Die Mannschaft , it seemed like a night written in...