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1977 FIFA World Youth Championship

FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA World Youth Championship
year1977
other_titlesبطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم 1977
countryTunisia
dates27 June – 10 July
num_teams16
confederations5
venues4
cities3
championUSSR
count1
secondMexico
thirdBrazil
third-flagvar1968
fourthUruguay
matches28
goals70
top_scorerBrazil Guina (4 goals)
fair_play
playerURS Vladimir Bessonov
nextseason[1979](1979-fifa-world-youth-championship)

| third-flagvar = 1968 The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, hosted by Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977, in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax. The 28 matches played were the smallest number in tournament history. The USSR U20s defeated Mexico U20s in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah.

The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.

Qualification

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)[1977 AFC Youth Championship](1977-afc-youth-championship)
CAF (Africa)Host nation
[1977 African Youth Qualifying for World Cup](1977-african-youth-qualifying-for-world-cup)
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)[1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1976-concacaf-u-20-tournament)
CONMEBOL (South America)[1977 South American Youth Championship](1977-south-american-youth-championship)
UEFA (Europe)[1976 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](1976-uefa-european-under-18-football-championship)

Squads

For a list of all squads that began play in the group stage of the tournament, see 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Venues

TunisTunisSousseSfax
Stade El MenzahStade Chedly Zouiten
[[Image:Stade Olympique d'El Menzah.jpg200px]][[Image:Stade Chedly Zouiten.jpg200px]]
Capacity: **45,000**Capacity: **18,000**
Stade Olympique de SousseStade Ameur El-Gargouri
[[Image:Stade olympique de Sousse.jpg200px]][[Image:Stade taieb mehiri.JPG200px]]
Capacity: **10,000**Capacity: **4,000**

Group stage

The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

|6 July – Tunis |**** |1 (5)||1 (3) |7 July – Tunis ||0 (3)|**** |0 (4) |10 July – Tunis ||2 (8)|**** |2 (9) |9 July – Tunis |****|4||0

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

18:30 Manzo

Result

Awards

Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award
BRA GuinaVladimir Bessonov

Goalscorers

Guina of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

;4 goals

  • BRA Guina ;3 goals
  • IRQ Hussein Saeed
  • MEX Agustin Manzo
  • MEX Luis Placencia
  • URS Vladimir Bessonov ;2 goals
  • BRA Cléber
  • BRA Paulinho
  • BRA Paulo Roberto
  • IRN Moharam Asheri
  • IRQ Hussein Luaibi
  • MEX Fernando Garduno
  • PAR Pedro López
  • URS Valeri Petrakov
  • ESP Ricardo Escobar Palacios
  • URU Amaro Nadal ;1 goal
  • AUT Heinz Weiss
  • BRA Jorge Luís
  • BRA Júnior Brasília
  • BRA Tião
  • FRA Andre Wiss
  • FRA Gerard Bacconnier
  • FRA Thierry Meyer
  • HON Gilberto Yearwood
  • HON José Enrique Duarte
  • HON Prudencio Norales
  • HUN Imre Nagy
  • HUN János Kerekes
  • HUN Zoltán Péter
  • IRN Reza Rajabi
  • IRN Abdolreza Barzegar
  • IRQ Haddi Hammadi
  • ITA Luigi Capuzzo
  • CIV Honore Ya Semon
  • CIV Lucien Kouassi
  • MEX Eduardo Moses
  • MEX Eduardo Rergis
  • MEX Hugo Rodríguez
  • PAR Eugenio Giménez
  • PAR Domingo Salmaniego
  • PAR Juan Battaglia
  • PAR Víctor Morel
  • URS Andrei Bal
  • URS Vagiz Khidiyatullin
  • ESP José Casas
  • TUN Ali Ben Fattoum
  • URU Alberto Bica
  • URU Daniel Enrique
  • URU Venancio Ramos
  • URU Víctor Diogo

Final ranking

Group stage

Notes

References

  1. The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.
  2. The FIFA match report states "[[Russian SFSR. Russia]]" here, which is an [[anachronism]].
  3. The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.
  4. The FIFA match report anachronistically states [[Eritrea]].
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes
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