1991 FIFA World Youth Championship
Campeonato Mundial de Júniores Portugal '91 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Portugal |
Dates | 14–30 June |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Portugal (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Brazil |
Third place | Soviet Union |
Fourth place | Australia |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
Attendance | 731,500 (22,859 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Sergey Shcherbakov (5 goals) |
Best player(s) | Emílio Peixe |
Fair play award | Soviet Union |
The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Tournament. The final tournament took place for the first time in Portugal, between 14 and 30 June 1991. Matches were played across five venues in as many cities: Faro, Braga, Guimarães, Porto and Lisbon. Nigeria originally won the bid to host but was stripped of its right after found guilty for committing age fabrication.[1]
North Korea and South Korea competed for the first time as a united team, although FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea.[2] Portugal entered the competition as the defending champions, after winning the previous tournament. They reached the final, where a record attendance of 127,000 witnessed the hosts defeat Portuguese-speaking rival Brazil 4–2 on penalties to secure their second consecutive title. The Soviet Union made its last ever FIFA tournament appearance, the country was dissolved later that year.
Qualification
In addition to the host team, Portugal, 15 other national teams qualified from six continental tournaments.
- 1.^ Teams that made their debut.
Match officials
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Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Group stages
The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.
Group A
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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Portugal | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | Advanced to the quarter-finals |
Korea | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Republic of Ireland | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | |
Argentina | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 |
Portugal | 2–0 | Republic of Ireland |
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Pinto 17' Capucho 78' |
Report |
Republic of Ireland | 1–1 | Korea |
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McCarthy 58' | Report | Chol 89' |
Group B
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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Brazil | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | Advanced to the quarter-finals |
Mexico | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | |
Sweden | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | |
Ivory Coast | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 |
Brazil | 2–1 | Ivory Coast |
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Andrei 29' Luíz Fernando 79' |
Report | Tiehi 48' |
Ivory Coast | 1–1 | Mexico |
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Seri 79' | Report | Pineda 83' |
Group C
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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Australia | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | Advanced to the quarter-finals |
Soviet Union | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | |
Egypt | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | +4 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | −12 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0–2 | Australia |
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Report | Okon 52' Seal 76' |
Egypt | 0–1 | Soviet Union |
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Report | Scherbakov 6' |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0–6 | Egypt |
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Report | Hussein 8' Sadek 24' Ismail 36' Sakr 60' El-Sheshini 79' Abdel Aziz 82' |
Australia | 1–0 | Soviet Union |
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Maloney 21' | Report |
Australia | 1–0 | Egypt |
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Trajanovski 43' | Report |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0–4 | Soviet Union |
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Report | Pokhlebayev 9' Konovalov 15' Mikhailenko 22' Scherbakov 35' |
Group D
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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Spain | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | Advanced to the quarter-finals |
Syria | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | |
England | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | |
Uruguay | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 |
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
June 22 – Lisbon | ||||||||||
Portugal (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||
June 26 – Lisbon | ||||||||||
Mexico | 1 | |||||||||
Portugal | 1 | |||||||||
June 23 – Braga | ||||||||||
Australia | 0 | |||||||||
Australia (p) | 1 (5) | |||||||||
June 29 – Lisbon | ||||||||||
Syria | 1 (4) | |||||||||
Portugal (p) | 0 (4) | |||||||||
June 22 – Porto | ||||||||||
Brazil | 0 (2) | |||||||||
Brazil | 5 | |||||||||
June 26 – Guimarães | ||||||||||
Korea | 1 | |||||||||
Brazil | 3 | |||||||||
July 23 – Faro | ||||||||||
Soviet Union | 0 | Third place | ||||||||
Spain | 1 | |||||||||
June 29 – Porto | ||||||||||
Soviet Union | 3 | |||||||||
Australia | 1 (4) | |||||||||
Soviet Union (p) | 1 (5) | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Australia | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Syria |
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Seal 20' | Report | A. Mando 56' |
Penalties | ||
Seal Okon Kindtner Muscat Babic Stanton |
5–4 | F. Mando Khalifa Ghaeb Abdul Razak Ramadan Sibai |
Spain | 1–3 | Soviet Union |
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Urzáiz 85' | Report | Scherbakov 35', 64' Mandreko 80' |
Semi-finals
Brazil | 3–0 | Soviet Union |
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Marquinhos 15' Castro 18' Élber 32' |
Report |
Third place play-off
Australia | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Soviet Union |
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Seal 87' | Report | Scherbakov 39' (pen.) |
Penalties | ||
Seal Okon Corica Babic Popovic Stanton |
4–5 | Pokhlebayev Bushmanov Babalaryan Mamchur Scherbakov Minko |
Final
Portugal | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | Brazil |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Jorge Costa Figo Paulo Torres Rui Costa |
4–2 | Ramon Élber Andrei Marquinhos |
1991 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners |
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Portugal Second title |
Awards
Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | Fair Play Award |
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Serhiy Scherbakov | Emílio Peixe | Soviet Union |
Goalscorers
Serhiy Scherbakov of Soviet Union won the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 82 goals were scored by 54 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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1 | Portugal | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 11 | |
2 | Brazil | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 10 | |
3 | Soviet Union | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 7 | |
4 | Australia | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 8 | |
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | Spain | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | |
6 | Syria | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | |
7 | Mexico | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 4 | |
8 | Korea | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | –4 | 3 | |
Eliminated at the group stage | ||||||||||
9 | Egypt | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 2 | |
10 | Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 2 | |
11 | England | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –1 | 2 | |
12 | Republic of Ireland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 2 | |
13 | Ivory Coast | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | –4 | 1 | |
14 | Argentina | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 1 | |
15 | Uruguay | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | –7 | 1 | |
16 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | –12 | 0 |
References
- ^ "After The Eaglets Have Landed". NigeriaVillageSquare.com. 26 February 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "FIFA World Youth Championship Portugal 1991 – Teams". FIFA. Retrieved 10 June 2014.