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1997 FIFA World Youth Championship

FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA World Youth Championship
year1997
other_titlesPiala Dunia B-20 FIFA 1997
Piala Dunia Belia FIFA 1997
image1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.png
size100px
countryMalaysia
dates16 June – 5 July
num_teams24
confederations6
venues6
cities6
champion_other
count3
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches52
goals165
attendance655827
top_scorerBRA Adaílton (10 goals)
playerURU Nicolás Olivera
fair_play
prevseason[1995](1995-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason[1999](1999-fifa-world-youth-championship)

Piala Dunia Belia FIFA 1997

The 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1997 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 11th staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It was held from 16 June to 5 July 1997 in Malaysia. It was the first FIFA tournament hosted by a Southeast Asian country.

Venues

Shah AlamKuchingAlor Setar{{center1=KuantanKangarJohor Bahru
Shah Alam StadiumSarawak StadiumDarul Aman Stadium
Capacity: **80,000**Capacity: **40,000**Capacity: **32,387**
[[File:Shah Alam Stadium.JPG150px]][[File:Stadium Sarawak.JPG150px]][[File:Stadium Darul Aman.jpg150px]]
Darul Makmur StadiumTuanku Syed Putra StadiumTan Sri Hassan Yunus Stadium
Capacity: **40,000**Capacity: **20,000**Capacity: **30,000**
[[File:Darul Makmur Stadium.jpg150px]][[File:Stadium Tuanku Syed Putra (edt by cikgu HeHe).jpg150px]][[File:Stadium Larkin.jpg150px]]

Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament.

ConfederationQualifying tournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)Host nation
[1996 AFC Youth Championship](1996-afc-youth-championship)
CAF (Africa)[1997 African Youth Championship](1997-african-youth-championship)
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)[1996 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1996-concacaf-u-20-tournament)
CONMEBOL (South America)[1997 South American Youth Championship](1997-south-american-youth-championship)
OFC (Oceania)[1997 OFC U-20 Championship](1997-ofc-u-20-championship)
UEFA (Europe)[1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](1996-uefa-european-under-18-football-championship)

:1.Teams that made their debut.

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Group stage

The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six-second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

Group A

21:00 Khamma El Barodi |stadium=Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam | attendance = 25,000

20:00 Coelho

17:30 Haled López |stadium=Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam | attendance = 10,000

20:00

17:30 Remacle |stadium=Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam | attendance = 25,000

20:00

Group B

16:30

20:45 Adaílton Silvestre |stadium=Sarawak Stadium, Kuching | attendance = 40,000

16:30 Trezeguet |stadium=Sarawak Stadium, Kuching | attendance = 3,246

19:15

16:30 Chung Seok-keun Lee Jung-min Adaílton Zé Elias |stadium=Sarawak Stadium, Kuching | attendance = 9,576

19:15 Henry Luccin |stadium=Sarawak Stadium, Kuching | attendance = 9,757

Group C

17:30 Mouktar

20:00

17:30

20:00 Corrales

17:30

20:00

Group D

17:30 Angulo |stadium=Darulmakmur Stadium, Kuantan | attendance = 5,000

20:00

17:30 Nakamura Jojo Fukuda Nagai Solís |stadium=Darulmakmur Stadium, Kuantan | attendance = 9,000

20:00

17:30 Hiroyama Yanagisawa Da Silva Samudio |stadium=Darulmakmur Stadium, Kuantan | attendance = 5,000

20:00 Albelda Farinós Ribera

Group E

17:30 Scaloni Riquelme |stadium=Utama Stadium, Kangar | attendance = 13,000

20:00

17:30

20:00 Riquelme

17:30 Kindel |stadium=Utama Stadium, Kangar | attendance = 4,000

20:00 Placente Riquelme

Group F

17:30 Cariño Torres Santacruz

20:00 Shepherd |stadium=Larkin Stadium, Johor Bahru | attendance = 14,000

17:30

20:00 Owen Abdulla |stadium=Larkin Stadium, Johor Bahru | attendance = 12,000

17:30

20:00 Kazim

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

|25 June – Shah Alam|**|3'''||0 |25 June – Kuching||0||'''1 |26 June – Kangar||0||'''1 |26 June – Alor Setar||'''3||0 |26 June – Kuantan||'''2||0 |25 June – Shah Alam|** |'''2||1 |26 June – Johor Bahru||1||'''2 |25 June – Kuching||'''10||0 |29 June – Shah Alam|**** |'''1 (7)||1 (6) |29 June – Johor Bahru||1|**** |'''2 |29 June – Shah Alam||0||'''1 |29 June – Kuching||'''2||0 |2 July – Shah Alam|**** |'''3||2 |2 July – Kuching||0||'''1 |5 July – Shah Alam||1||'''2 |5 July – Shah Alam||1|****|'''2

Round of 16

Éder Gaúcho
Alex
Roni
Adaílton
Zé Elias

Olivera

Duff

Aimar

Sule
Issaka

Rivera

Quarter-finals

Perezlindo

Ofori-Quaye

Semi-finals

Coelho Perea Meloño |stadium=Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam | attendance = 15,000

Third place play-off

Duff |stadium=Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam | attendance = 28,000

Final

Quintana

URU Víctor Púa
ARG José Pekerman

|}

Result

Awards

Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award
BRA AdaíltonURU Nicolás Olivera

Goalscorers

Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring ten goals. In total, 165 goals were scored by 101 different players, with seven of them credited as own goals.

;10 goals

  • BRA Adaílton ;5 goals
  • FRA David Trezeguet ;4 goals
  • ARG Bernardo Romeo
  • ARG Juan Román Riquelme
  • AUS Kostas Salapasidis
  • BRA Alex
  • JPN Atsushi Yanagisawa
  • URU Marcelo Zalayeta ;3 goals
  • BEL Gunter Van Handenhoven
  • BRA Zé Elias
  • ENG Danny Murphy
  • ENG Michael Owen
  • FRA Thierry Henry
  • MEX Eduardo Lillingston
  • ESP José Luis Deus
  • URU Fabián Coelho ;2 goals
  • ARG Lionel Scaloni
  • BRA Álvaro
  • BRA Fernandão
  • BRA Rôni
  • FRA Peter Luccin
  • GHA Baba Sule
  • GHA Peter Ofori-Quaye
  • JPN Harutaka Ono
  • JPN Shinji Jojo
  • IRL Damien Duff
  • IRL Micky Cummins
  • IRL Trevor Molloy
  • RSA Junaid Hartley
  • KOR Park Jin-sub
  • ESP Alberto Rivera
  • ESP Javier Farinós
  • URU Nicolás Olivera ;1 goal
  • ARG Diego Placente
  • ARG Diego Quintana
  • ARG Esteban Cambiasso
  • ARG Martín Perezlindo
  • ARG Pablo Aimar
  • AUS Daniel Allsopp
  • BRA Éder Gaúcho
  • BEL Gauthier Remacle
  • CAN Dwayne De Rosario
  • CAN Jason Bent
  • CAN Steve Kindel
  • CHN Li Jinyu
  • CHN Wang Peng
  • CRC Alonso Solís
  • CRC Froylán Ledezma
  • CRC Steven Bryce
  • ENG Jamie Carragher
  • ENG Paul Shepherd
  • GHA Awudu Issaka
  • GHA Bashiru Gambo
  • GHA Joseph Ansah
  • GHA Mohamed Mouktar
  • GHA Odartey Lawson
  • GHA Richard Ackon
  • GHA Stephen Appiah
  • HUN Attila Szili
  • CIV Serge Dié
  • CIV Souleymane Cissé
  • JPN Kenji Fukuda
  • JPN Nozomi Hiroyama
  • JPN Shunsuke Nakamura
  • JPN Yuichiro Nagai
  • MAS Nik Ahmad Fadly
  • MEX Carlos Cariño
  • MEX Gerardo Torres
  • MEX Omar Santacruz
  • MAR Aissam El Barodi
  • MAR Hamid Termina
  • MAR Khalid Khamma
  • MAR Tarik Sektioui
  • PAR César Cáceres
  • PAR Gustavo Morinigo
  • PAR Juan Samudio
  • PAR Paulo da Silva
  • PAR Raúl Román
  • IRL Desmond Baker
  • IRL Neale Fenn
  • KOR Chung Seok-keun
  • KOR Lee Jung-min
  • KOR Lee Kwan-woo
  • ESP David Albelda
  • ESP Diego Ribera
  • ESP Miguel Ángel Angulo
  • UAE Mohamed Kazim
  • UAE Yaser Salem Ali
  • USA Brian West
  • USA Jorge Flores
  • URU Álvaro Perea
  • URU Rodrigo López
  • URU Inti Podestá
  • URU Pablo García ;Own goal
  • FRA Mikaël Silvestre (playing against Brazil)
  • MAS Khairun Haled Masrom (playing against Uruguay)
  • MAR Youssef Safri (playing against Malaysia)
  • IRL Niall Inman (playing against Morocco)
  • UAE Abdulla Ahmed Abdulla (playing against England)
  • USA Ramiro Corrales (playing against Republic of Ireland)
  • URU Alejandro Meloño (playing against Ghana)

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Round of 16 Group stage

Notes

References

  1. The FIFA states him as "Júnior" in the official report.
  2. The FIFA gives no information on the Stadium used in this match, but the [[Utama Stadium]] was the only one suitable by then for a match like this.
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