World champions Germany have won the first FIFA Confederations Cup title after a 1-0 victory against Copa America winners Chile in Sunday's final watched by a crowd over 57 thousand, in St Petersburg, Russia.
Lars Stindl hit the first-half winner following a mistake by Marcelo Diaz.
Chile utterly dominated the early exchanges, and could have been several goals ahead but for some wayward finishing, fine goalkeeping and last-ditch defending. But Germany are masters at punishing teams for such wastefulness and took the lead completely against the run of play after 20 minutes.
Chile's Arturo Vidal and Angelo Sagal both blazed over the bar in the closing stages.The goal was the stuff of nightmares for Marcelo Diaz, who found himself pick-pocketed by the alert
and unselfish Timo Werner and could only watch as the striker drew Claudio Bravo from his goal and
teed up Stindl for the simplest of tap-ins at St Petersburg Brand new stadium.
Germany have won the FIFA World Cup, Confederations Cup and the European Under-21 Championship in the last three yearsHaving seen their team win the European Under-21 Championship in Poland three days ago, Germany's fans can celebrate another impressive tournament victory 12 months before they launch the defence of their world title.
Their success in Russia has been achieved without a number of players who helped beat Argentina in Rio three years ago to be crowned world champions.
Earlier, Adrien Silva scored an extra-time penalty as Portugal recovered from a goal down to beat Mexico 2-1 in the third-place play-off at Spartak Stadium,in Moscow.