U-20 South American Football Championship 1977
The VIII. U-20 South American Football Championship 1977 took place from April 16, 1977 to May 6, 1977 in Venezuela .
The matches to determine the tournament winner were held in the cities of Mérida , Valencia and Caracas . The national teams of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela took part in the tournament.
The game was played in two groups, followed by a final phase, also in group mode. Uruguay emerged victorious from the event . Places two to four went to the national teams from Brazil , Paraguay and Chile . The first three teams qualified for the 1977 Junior World Cup in Tunisia .
The tournament's top scorer was the Uruguayan Amaro Nadal and the Brazilian Guinha , each with four goals.
The squad of the winning team consisted of the following players:
Alberto Bica (Cerro), Víctor Duque , José Moreira , Eliseo Rivero (all Danubio), Fernando Álvez , Gerardo Caetano (both Defensor), Luis Russo (Huracán Buceo), Hugo De León , Daniel Enríquez , Luis Fleitas , Carlos Maynard , Amaro Nadal (all Nacional), Víctor Diogo , Rubén Paz , Venancio Ramos , Mario Saralegui (all Peñarol), Ariel Krasouski (Wanderers) and Américo Silva (OFI). The coach of the "Celeste" was Raúl Bentancor .
Web links
- VIII Sudamericano Juvenil 1977 (Venezuela) on rsssf.com
Individual evidence
- ^ South American Youth Championships on rsssf.com, accessed May 9, 2013
- ↑ Juventud de América (Spanish) in La República of December 30, 2002, accessed on May 12, 2013
- ↑ Sudamericanos s20: década del 70 (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 26, 2015