1954 Junior Soccer South American Championship
The first South American Junior Football Championship 1954 took place from March 22, 1954 to April 13, 1954 in Venezuela .
The matches to determine the tournament winner of the event, also known as Juventud de América , were held in Caracas . The national teams of Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela took part in the tournament. In addition, the selection of the Central American state Panama was invited .
The game was played in two groups, followed by a final phase, also in group mode. Venezuela as host was automatically set for the final phase and only entered the tournament at this point. Uruguay emerged victorious from the event . Places two to four went to the national teams from Brazil , Venezuela and Peru .
The tournament's top scorer was the Paraguayan Juan B. Agüero with seven goals scored.
The squad of the winning team trained by Gerardo Spósito consisted of the following players:
Jorge Rodríguez Andrade ( Central ), Simón Peña ( Cerro ), Eustaquio Claro , Enrique Cruz , Ramón Cruz (all Danubio ), Héctor Demarco , Enrique Laitano (both Defensor ), José Ayup , Juan López (both Liverpool ), Guillermo Escalada , Walter Marichal , Omar Ramos , Roberto Sosa (all Nacional ), Walter Davoine , José Mónaco , José Rizzo (all Peñarol ), Manuel Pedersen ( Rampla Juniors ) and Víctor Guaglianone ( Wanderers ).
Web links
- I Sudamericano Juvenil 1954 (Venezuela) on rsssf.com
Individual evidence
- ^ South American Youth Championships on rsssf.com, accessed May 9, 2013
- ↑ De la primera nadie se olvida (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy of January 8, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2016
- ↑ Juventud de América (Spanish) in La República of December 30, 2002, accessed on May 10, 2013