South American Junior Football Championship 1964
The III. 1964 Junior Soccer South American Championship took place in Colombia from January 12, 1964 to February 2, 1964 .
The matches to determine the tournament winner of the event, also known as Juventud de América , were held in the cities of Cali , Barranquilla , Bogotá and Medellín . For the first time in the history of the tournament, several venues were used for the championship. The national teams of Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Paraguay , Peru , Uruguay and Venezuela took part in the tournament.
The game was played in group mode in a group of seven. Uruguay emerged victorious from the event . This gave the small country from the Río de la Plata its third victory in a row. Places two to four went to the national teams from Paraguay, Colombia and Chile.
The top scorer of the tournament was the Chilean Jaime Bravo with five goals scored.
The squad of the winning team consisted of the following players:
Homero Martínez ( Canillitas ), José Díaz ( Cerro ), Líber Arispe ( Colón ), Carlos Chiarini , Alfredo Labandeira (both Liverpool ), Gilberto Machado ( Nacional ), Oscar Barreto , Eduardo García , Raúl González , Juan Mogordoy , Carlos Paz , Jesús Villalba (all Peñarol ), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz ( Racing ), José Pérez , Rubén Techera , Leonardo Turia (all Rampla Juniors ), Enrique Alfano and Vito Fierro (both Sud América ).
Web links
- III Sudamericano Juvenil 1964 (Colombia) on rsssf.com
Individual evidence
- ^ South American Youth Championships on rsssf.com, accessed May 10, 2013
- ↑ Juventud de América (Spanish) in La República of December 30, 2002, accessed on May 10, 2013