1997 FIFA World Youth Championship

1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
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
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament.
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 stages
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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards
Goalscorers
Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Shoe 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
Adaílton
5 goals
David Trezeguet
4 goals
Bernardo Romeo
Juan Román Riquelme
Kostas Salapasidis
Alex
Atsushi Yanagisawa
Marcelo Zalayeta
3 goals
Gunter Van Handenhoven
Zé Elias
Danny Murphy
Michael Owen
Thierry Henry
Eduardo Lillingston
José Luis Deus
Fabián Coelho
2 goals
Lionel Scaloni
Álvaro
Fernandão
Rôni
Peter Luccin
Baba Sule
Peter Ofori-Quaye
Harutaka Ono
Shinji Jojo
Damien Duff
Micky Cummins
Trevor Molloy
Junaid Hartley
Park Jin-sub
Alberto Rivera
Javier Farinós
Nicolás Olivera
1 goal
Diego Placente
Diego Quintana
Esteban Cambiasso
Martín Perezlindo
Pablo Aimar
Daniel Allsopp
Éder Gaúcho
Gauthier Remacle
Dwayne De Rosario
Jason Bent
Steve Kindel
Li Jinyu
Wang Peng
Alonso Solís
Froylán Ledezma
Steven Bryce
Jamie Carragher
Paul Shepherd
Awudu Issaka
Bashiru Gambo
Joseph Ansah
Mohamed Mouktar
Odartey Lawson
Richard Ackon
Stephen Appiah
Attila Szili
Serge Dié
Souleymane Cisse
Kenji Fukuda
Nozomi Hiroyama
Shunsuke Nakamura
Yuichiro Nagai
Nik Ahmad Fadly Nik Leh
Carlos Cariño
Gerardo Torres
Omar Santacruz
Aissam El Barodi
Hamid Termina
Khalid Khamma
Tarik Sektioui
César Cáceres
Gustavo Morinigo
Juan Samudio
Paulo da Silva
Raúl Román
Desmond Baker
Neale Fenn
Chung Seok-keun
Lee Jung-min
Lee Kwan-woo
David Albelda
Diego Ribera
Miguel Ángel Angulo
Mohamed Kazim
Yaser Salem Ali
Brian West
Jorge Flores
Álvaro Perea
Rodrigo López
Inti Podestá
Pablo García
Own goal
Mikaël Silvestre (playing against Brazil)
Khairun Haled Masrom (playing against Uruguay)
Youssef Safri (playing against Malaysia)
Niall Inman (playing against Morocco)
Abdulla Ahmed Abdulla (playing against England)
Ramiro Corrales (playing against Republic of Ireland)
Alejandro Meloño (playing against Ghana)
Final ranking
Notes
External links
FIFA World Youth Championship Malaysia 1997 , FIFA.com
RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1997
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)
Fifa World Youth Championship, 1997
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