1989 World Youth Championship

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia
FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia 1989
Number of nations	16  (of 112 applicants)
World Champion	Portugal (1st title)
venue	Saudi Arabia
Opening game	February 16, 1989
Endgame	March 3, 1989
Games	32
Gates	81  (⌀: 2.53 per game)
spectator	643,815  (⌀: 20,119 per game)
Top scorer	Oleg Salenko (5 goals)
Best player	Bismarck
yellow cards	82  (⌀: 2.56 per game)
Red cards	6  (⌀: 0.19 per game)

The FIFA Junior World Cup (officially: V World Youth Championship for the FIFA / Coca-Cola Cup ) took place in Saudi Arabia from February 16 to March 3, 1989 . The kingdom hosted a FIFA event for the first time and was also the second Asian country to host the tournament. Japan had previously hosted the 1979 finals.

The team from Portugal became world champions. In the final, the Iberians defeated Nigeria 2-0 and secured their first title. Third place went to the Brazilian team, who beat the USA 2-0 in the small final. With Bismarck , the Brazilians also provided the best player of the tournament, the top scorer was Oleg Salenko from the Soviet Union . The fair play award went to the USA.

qualification

The European federation was granted six places in the final round, these were awarded at the U18 European Championship in 1988 in Czechoslovakia. The semi-finalists from Portugal, the Soviet Union, the GDR and Spain reached the World Cup. Norway and Czechoslovakia won their playoffs and could also qualify. The Soviet team became European champions after beating Portugal 3-1.

Two teams from Africa qualified for the finals. At the U-19 African Championship, which consisted exclusively of knockout games , Nigeria and Mali were able to win their semi-finals and qualify for the finals. Nigeria became African champions after two victories.

The Asian association was also able to send two teams, and Saudi Arabia was automatically qualified as host. At the U-19 Asian Cup, which was held in Qatar in 1988, Iraq won the final and qualified for the World Cup. Second placed Syria and third placed Qatar had to play a qualifying round with New Zealand and Australia to determine the last participant from Asia and Oceania respectively. Syria won the tournament and qualified as well.

South America has three finalists at the tournament, at the Sudamericano Juvenil in Argentina in 1988 the team from Brazil won the title. Colombia finished second, Argentina qualified third in the group due to the better goal difference compared to Paraguay.

Damam Jeddah Riad Ta'if

Venues in 1989 in Saudi Arabia

The field of participants was completed by Costa Rica and the USA. At the continental championship in Trinidad and Tobago in 1988, the Costa Ricans were North American champions. Originally Mexico was supposed to take second place in the World Cup, but incorrect dates of birth were given for Mexican players for qualifying for the World Cup, which is why the country was suspended by FIFA. The third-placed Americans took part in the finals instead.

Venues

The game was played in the four cities of Riyadh , Dammam , Jeddah and Ta'if :

• Dammam - Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium
• Jeddah - Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium
• Riyadh - King Fahd Stadium
• Ta'if - King Fahd Stadium

The final took place in the newly built König Fahd Stadium in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Attendees

6 from Europe	GDR	Norway	Portugal	Soviet Union	Spain	Czechoslovakia
2 from North and Central America	Costa Rica	United States
3 from South America	Argentina	Brazil	Colombia
2 from Africa	Nigeria	Mali
3 from Asia	Iraq	Syria	Saudi Arabia

Teams from German-speaking countries

GDR

The footballers from the GDR, who had outgrown the junior division, qualified for the tournament on the Arabian Peninsula by taking third place in the 1988 European Championship as a U-18 selection . The players, most of whom already had first division experience in GDR football , were instructed by Lothar Priebe and Rudolf Krause . Before the reunification , which was only around a year and a half in the future, but was by no means expected so quickly at this point , none of the actors made it into the senior national team of the DFV . In all German league football , many squad members succeeded in the 1st or 2nd Bundesliga , but only Steffen Freund and Sven Kmetsch played in the A-selection of the DFB .

DFV contingent

player	society	Calls	Gates
01 - Frank Schulze	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-	1	-
02 - Steffen Freund	BSG Stahl Brandenburg	2	-	-	-
03 - Mario Kern	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-	-	-
04 - Lars Hermel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	-	-	-
05 - Steffen Karl	HFC chemistry	3	-	1	-
06 - Thomas Grabow	BFC Dynamo	3	-	-	-
07 - Stephan Prause	FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder	2	1	-	-
08 - Torsten Raspe	HFC chemistry	2	-	-	-
09 - Jürgen Rische	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	1	-	-	-
10 - Uwe Jähnig	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	1	-	-
11 - Henri Fuchs	FC Hansa Rostock	3	1	-	-
12 - Thomas Strecker	BFC Dynamo	3	-	-	-
13 - Thomas Rath	FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder	2	-	2	-
14 - Olaf Schreiber	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	3	-	-	-
15 - Sandy Enge	1. FC Magdeburg	2	-	1	-
16 - Thomas White	HFC chemistry	-	-	-	-
17 - Sven Kmetsch	SG Dynamo Dresden	1	-	-	-
18 - Michael Weinrich	1. FC Union Berlin	-	-	-	-

• Trainer: Lothar Priebe

Preliminary round

The group stage draw was made on November 23, 1988 by FIFA Secretary General Sepp Blatter in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Only the host's team was set as the head of group A to play their home games in Riyadh. At the time of the draw, the last participant to be played in the qualifying round between the Asian and Oceanic teams was not yet known. In January 1989, Syria won the tournament and qualified.

The preliminary round was held in four groups with four teams each. The first two in each group qualified for the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	0	1	002: 300	−1	04th
2.	Nigeria	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	03
3.	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	03
4th	Saudi Arabia	3	0	2	1	004: 300	+1	02

February 16, 1989 in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia	-	Nigeria	1: 2 (1: 0)
February 17, 1989 in Riyadh
Czechoslovakia	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 0)
February 19, 1989 in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 1 (0: 0)
February 20, 1989 in Riyadh
Nigeria	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 0)
February 22, 1989 in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia	-	Portugal	3: 0 (0: 0)
February 22, 1989 in Riyadh
Nigeria	-	Czechoslovakia	1: 1 (0: 1)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	007: 200	+5	06th
2.	Colombia	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
3.	Syria	3	0	2	1	004: 600	−2	02
4th	Costa Rica	3	0	2	1	002: 400	−2	02

February 17, 1989 in Dammam
Costa Rica	-	Colombia	1: 0 (0: 0)
February 17, 1989 in Dammam
Soviet Union	-	Syria	3: 1 (1: 0)
February 19, 1989 in Dammam
Costa Rica	-	Soviet Union	0: 1 (0: 0)
February 20, 1989 in Dammam
Colombia	-	Syria	2: 0 (1: 0)
February 22, 1989 in Dammam
Costa Rica	-	Syria	1: 3 (0: 3)
February 22, 1989 in Dammam
Colombia	-	Soviet Union	1: 3 (1: 3)

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	010: 100	+9	06th
2.	United States	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	03
3.	GDR	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
4th	Mali	3	0	1	2	001: 900	−8	01

February 17, 1989 in Jeddah
Brazil	-	GDR	2: 0 (1: 0)
February 17, 1989 in Jeddah
Mali	-	United States	1: 1 (1: 1)
February 19, 1989 in Jeddah
Brazil	-	Mali	5: 0 (0: 0)
February 20, 1989 in Jeddah
GDR	-	United States	0: 2 (0: 0)
February 22, 1989 in Jeddah
Brazil	-	United States	3: 1 (2: 1)
February 22, 1989 in Jeddah
GDR	-	Mali	3: 0 (1: 0)

Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Iraq	3	3	0	0	004-000	+4	06th
2.	Argentina	3	0	2	1	003: 300	± 0	02
3.	Norway	3	0	2	1	004: 500	−1	02
4th	Spain	3	0	2	1	004: 700	−3	02

February 17, 1989 in Ta'if
Norway	-	Iraq	0: 1 (0: 0)
February 17, 1989 in Ta'if
Argentina	-	Spain	1: 2 (1: 1)
February 19, 1989 in Ta'if
Norway	-	Argentina	0: 2 (0: 1)
February 20, 1989 in Ta'if
Iraq	-	Spain	2: 0 (1: 0)
February 22, 1989 in Ta'if
Spain	-	Norway	2: 4 (0: 1)
February 22, 1989 in Jeddah
Iraq	-	Argentina	1: 0 (0: 0)

Final round

Overview

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	Portugal	1
	Colombia	0
					Portugal	1
					Brazil	0
	Brazil	1
	Argentina	0
									Portugal	2
									Nigeria	0
	Soviet Union	4 (3)
	Nigeria	4 (5)
					Nigeria	1 (2)			Game for third place
					United States	1 (1)
	Iraq	1							Brazil	2
	United States	2							United States	0

Quarter finals

February 25, 1989 in Riyadh
Portugal	-	Colombia	1: 0 (1: 0)
February 25, 1989 in Dammam
Soviet Union	-	Nigeria	4: 4 a.d. (4: 4, 2: 0), 3: 5 a.d.
February 25, 1989 in Jeddah
Brazil	-	Argentina	1: 0 (1: 0)
February 25, 1989 in Ta'if
Iraq	-	United States	1: 2 (1: 1)

Semifinals

February 28, 1989 in Riyadh
Portugal	-	Brazil	1: 0 (0: 0)
February 28, 1989 in Jeddah
Nigeria	-	United States	2: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)

3rd place match

March 3, 1989 in Riyadh
Brazil	-	United States	2: 0 (0: 0)

final

March 3, 1989 in Riyadh
Portugal	-	Nigeria	2: 0 (1: 0)

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the 1989 Junior World Championships. They are sorted alphabetically according to the number of hits or if the number of goals is the same.

space	player	Gates
1	Oleg Salenko	5
2	Mutiu Adepoju	3
	Sonny Anderson	3
	Bismark	3
	Marcelo Henrique	3
	Christopher Ohen	3
	Steve Snow	3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA Technical Report (PDF; 11.7 MB)
2. ↑ Jürgen Nöldner : First of all, make eye contact with the Brazilians. In: fuwo - The new football week . February 14, 1989, page 3/4.