FIFA World Youth Championship 1989 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

between February 16 and March 3, 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place in four venues: Riyadh

Riyadh

Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 5,254,560 people, and the urban center of a...

, Jeddah

Jeddah

Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...

, Dammam

Dammam

Dammam is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the most oil-rich region in the world. The judicial and administrative bodies of the province and several government departments are located in the city. Dammam is the largest city in the Eastern Province and third largest in Saudi...

, and Ta'if.

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Saudi Arabia did not have to qualify for the tournament.

Africa (CAF
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those...

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Asia (AFC
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

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North America, Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

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South America (CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

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Europe (UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

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Match officials

Africa Badara Sene

Badara Sène

Badara Sène is a Senegalese footballer, who most recently played in France for FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.- Career :...

Idrissa Sarr Neji Jouini

Neji Jouini

Neji Jouini is a former Tunisian football referee. He is known for having refereed three matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1990 and two in 1994. Currently, he is the head of the Referees Association of the Qatar Football Association....

Asia Abdul Al Nasri Chen Shengcai Ahmed Mohammed Jassim

Europe Hubert Forstinger

Hubert Forstinger

Hubert Forstinger is a retired Austrian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship in Sweden that was between France and Denmark.-References:*...

Tullio Lanese

Tullio Lanese is a former football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising three matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1991....

Neil Midgley

Neil Midgley (referee)

Neil Midgley was an English football referee who originated from Salford, then in Lancashire. At the time of his death he lived in Kearsley, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, with his wife Barbara.-Career:...

Egil Nervik Aron Schmidhuber

Aron Schmidhuber

Aron Schmidhuber is a retired football referee from Germany. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-External links:*...

Alan Snoddy

Alan Snoddy is a retired Northern Irish football referee, known for having refereed two matches in the FIFA World Cup: one in 1986 and one in 1990. At the 1986 World Cup Snoddy was appointed to referee the game between Morocco and Portugal in Guadalajara which ended 2-0 to Morocco...

Alexey Spirin

Alexey Nikolayevich Spirin is a former association football referee from Russia. He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:...

Marcel van Langenhove

Marcel van Langenhove (referee)

Marcel van Langenhove is a Belgian politician and a former football referee.He refereed one game at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, between Ireland and Egypt.He is currently the mayor of his native city of Wemmel.-External links:...

North, Central America and Caribbean Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles is a retired football referee from the United States, best known for supervising one match during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in his native country.-References:*...

Arturo Brizio Carter

Arturo Brizio Carter . Is a former football referee from Mexico. He is mostly known for supervising 6 matches in the FIFA World Cup. Three in both 1994 and 1998. He gave seven expulsions and 29 yellow cards in those six matches.-External links:*...

José Carlos Ortíz

South America Juan Antonio Bava Elias Jácome

Elias Jácome

Elías Jácome Guerrero was the first Ecuadorian soccer referee to participate in a FIFA World Cup. He supervised the Spain versus South Korea match during the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy.-References:* *...

José Roberto Wright

José Roberto Ramiz Wright, also known as José Roberto Wright or José Ramiz Wright , is a former Brazilian football referee. He supervised four matches during the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:...

José Torres Cadena

José Joaquín Torres Cadena also known as J.J Torres is a former football referee from Colombia. He is mostly known for supervising 4 matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in USA-References:* www.lawl.com...

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
-=Head coach: Václav Ježek:=Head coach: Olatunde Disu-=Head coach: Carlos Queiroz:=Head coach: José Roberto Avila-=Head coach: Juan José Pelaez:=...

Tournament

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

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Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
4	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1
3	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
3	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
2	3	1	0	2	4	3

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Group B

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Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
6	3	3	0	7	2
2	3	1	2	3	4	−1
2	3	1	2	4	6	−2
2	3	1	2	2	4	−2

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Group C

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Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	3	3	0	0	10	1
3	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
2	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
1	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8

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Group D

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Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
6	3	3	0	4	0
2	3	1	2	3	3	0
2	3	1	2	4	5	−1
2	3	1	2	4	7	−3

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Knockout stages

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Third place play-off

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Final

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
Oleg Salenko	Bismarck Bismarck Barreto Faria Bismarck Barreto Faria, best known as Bismarck is a former Brazilian football player.-Career:...

Top Scorers

Oleg Salenko, Soviet Union - 5 goals
Mutiu Adepoju
Mutiu Adepoju
Mutiu Adepoju is a retired Nigerian footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder.Nicknamed "The Headmaster", he played most of his career in Spain - amassing La Liga totals of 175 games and 22 goals over the course of seven seasons - and represented his country in three World Cups.-Club...

, Nigeria - 3 goals
Sonny Anderson
Sonny Anderson
Anderson da Silva Nilmar , known as Sonny or Anderson, is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker....

, Brazil - 3 goals
Bismarck
Bismarck Barreto Faria
Bismarck Barreto Faria, best known as Bismarck is a former Brazilian football player.-Career:...

, Brazil - 3 goals
Marcelo Henrique, Brazil - 3 goals
Christopher Ohenhen, Nigeria - 3 goals
Steve Snow
Steve Snow
Stephen Leonard Snow is a retired American soccer forward who was a dominant goal scorer at the high school, college and junior national level. He played professionally in Belgium and in the United States. He also earned two caps with the U.S...

, United States - 3 goals

External links

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