1979 U-20 South American Football Championship

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The IX. The 1979 U-20 South American Football Championship took place in Uruguay from January 12, 1979 to January 31, 1979 .

The matches to determine the tournament winner were held in the cities of Montevideo and Paysandú . The national teams of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay 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 Argentina , Paraguay and Brazil . The first three teams qualified for the 1979 World Junior Cup in Japan . At the same time, the tournament also served to qualify for the Pan American Games in 1979 . The top four were also eligible to compete in the local soccer tournament. Chile, third in group B in the preliminary round, secured fifth place on the grid with a 3-1 win in an elimination match against Peru, third in group A in the preliminary round.

The tournament's top scorer was the Uruguayan Arsenio Luzardo with four goals scored.

The squad of the winning team consisted of the following players:

Nelson Alaguich , Daniel Martínez , Roberto Roo , Ricardo Viera (all Danubio), Luis Güelmo , Juan Pereira (both Huracán Buceo), Guillermo Mazzetti , Héctor Molina (both Nacional), Fernando Álvez , Rufino Cáceres , Rubén Paz , Ernesto Vargas (all Peñarol), Miguel Bossio (Sud América), Jorge Barrios , Luis Acosta (both Wanderers), Arsenio Luzardo , Felipe Revelez , Mario Viera (all OFI). The coach of the "Celeste" was Raúl Bentancor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ South American Youth Championships on rsssf.com, accessed May 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Juventud de América (Spanish) in La República of December 30, 2002, accessed on May 12, 2013
  3. ↑ Sudamericanos s20: década del 70 (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 26, 2015