Olympic football tournament 1980 / Venezuela
This article covers the Venezuelan Olympic football selection during the 1980 Summer Olympics .
Olympic qualification
The South American Zone identified its participants for the 1980 Summer Olympics in a tournament in Colombia . Venezuela took fourth place in the final table and originally missed qualifying for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . Due to the boycott of Argentina because of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , Venezuela was subsequently registered by CONMEBOL for the Olympic tournament.
Game results
01/23/1980 | Cali | Brazil | - | Venezuela | 2: 1 |
01/23/1980 | Pereira | Chile | - | Bolivia | 2-0 |
January 24, 1980 | Bogotá | Colombia | - | Peru | 2: 1 |
01/27/1980 | Bogotá | Argentina | - | Chile | 1-0 |
01/27/1980 | Barranquilla | Peru | - | Brazil | 3-0 |
01/27/1980 | Cali | Colombia | - | Venezuela | 0: 1 |
01/30/1980 | Bogotá | Brazil | - | Bolivia | 4-0 |
January 31, 1980 | Pereira | Colombia | - | Chile | 3: 1 |
January 31, 1980 | Barranquilla | Argentina | - | Venezuela | 1-0 |
02/03/1980 | Cali | Argentina | - | Peru | 4: 1 |
02/03/1980 | Cali | Venezuela | - | Bolivia | 5: 1 |
02/03/1980 | Barranquilla | Brazil | - | Chile | 0-0 |
02/06/1980 | Cali | Peru | - | Chile | 1-0 |
02/06/1980 | Barranquilla | Colombia | - | Bolivia | 0: 1 |
02/07/1980 | Bogotá | Brazil | - | Argentina | 1: 3 |
02/10/1980 | Cali | Colombia | - | Brazil | 5: 1 |
02/10/1980 | Bogotá | Peru | - | Venezuela | 2-0 |
02/10/1980 | Bogotá | Argentina | - | Bolivia | 4-0 |
02/13/1980 | Barranquilla | Chile | - | Venezuela | 0-0 |
02/14/1980 | Pereira | Bolivia | - | Peru | 1: 1 |
02/15/1980 | Bogotá | Argentina | - | Colombia | 0-0 |
Closing table
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Argentina | 6th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13: 2 | +11 | 11: 1 |
2. | Colombia | 6th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10: 5 | +5 | 7: 5 |
3. | Peru | 6th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9: 7 | +2 | 7: 5 |
4th | Venezuela | 6th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7: 6 | +1 | 5: 7 |
5. | Brazil | 6th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8:12 | −4 | 5: 7 |
6th | Chile | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3: 5 | −2 | 4: 8 |
7th | Bolivia | 6th | 1 | 1 | 4th | 3:16 | −13 | 3: 9 |
Qualified for the 1980 Olympic Games
Olympic finals
Squad
Games
After two defeats against hosts the Soviet Union and Cuba, Venezuela could not reach the quarter-finals on the last day of the game. After the 2-1 victory over Zambia, the team took third place in the group and was eliminated from the tournament.
Preliminary round ( Group A )
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15: 1 | +14 | 6-0 |
2. | Cuba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3: 9 | −6 | 4: 2 |
3. | Venezuela | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3: 7 | −4 | 2: 4 |
4th | Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2: 6 | −4 | 0: 6 |
July 20, 1980 in Moscow (Lenin Stadium) | |||
Soviet Union | - | Venezuela | 4: 0 (3: 0) |
July 22, 1980 in Leningrad (Kirov Stadium) | |||
Venezuela | - | Cuba | 1: 2 (0: 0) |
July 24, 1980 in Leningrad (Kirov Stadium) | |||
Venezuela | - | Zambia | 2: 1 (1: 0) |
literature
- The new football week . Fuwo . Sportverlag, ISSN 0323-8407 (issues of the 1979–1981 season).
Web links
- Football. (PDF; 27.59 MB) In: Games of the XXII Olympiad (Volume 3). LA84 Foundation, pp. 270–297 , accessed May 1, 2014 .
- Official website of FIFA