1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

FIFA U-20 World Cup Nigeria 1999
Tournament details
Host country	Nigeria
Dates	April 3 – April 24
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	Mali
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	158 (3.04 per match)
Attendance	624,400 (12,008 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Pablo Mahamadou Dissa (5 goals)
Best player	Seydou Keita
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The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between April 3 and April 24, 1999. The 1999 championship was the 12th contested.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 Squads 3 Tournament 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 3.3 Group C 3.4 Group D 3.5 Group E 3.6 Group F 3.7 Ranking of third-placed teams 3.8 Knockout round 3.9 Round of 16 3.10 Quarter-finals 3.11 Semi-finals 3.12 Third place play-off 3.13 Final 4 Result 5 Goalscorers 6 Awards 7 External links

Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	AFC Youth Championship 1998	Japan  Kazakhstan1  South Korea  Saudi Arabia
CAF (Africa)	1999 African Youth Championship	Cameroon  Ghana  Mali  Zambia1
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1999 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Costa Rica  Honduras  Mexico  United States
CONMEBOL (South America)	1999 South American Youth Championship	Argentina  Brazil  Paraguay  Uruguay
OFC (Oceania)	1999 OFC U-20 Championship	Australia
UEFA (Europe)	1998 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship	Croatia1  England  Germany  Portugal  Republic of Ireland  Spain
Host nation		Nigeria

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

Tournament

The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best four third-placed teams advance to the Round of 16

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Paraguay	6	3	2	0	1	5	6	−1
Nigeria	4	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Costa Rica	4	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1
Germany	3	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1

April 3, 1999 16:00	Nigeria	1–1	Costa Rica	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 37,500 Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)
	Aghahowa  20'	(Report)	Meléndez  83' (pen.)

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April 4, 1999 16:00	Germany	4–0	Paraguay	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)
	Kern  44'  60'  69' Falk  90'	(Report)

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April 7, 1999 16:00	Nigeria	2–0	Germany	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)
	Shittu  69' Garba  81'	(Report)

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April 7, 1999 19:00	Costa Rica	1–3	Paraguay	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)
	Garita  30'	(Report)	Santa Cruz  26' Vera  50' Cuevas  66'

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April 10, 1999 16:00	Nigeria	1–2	Paraguay	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)
	Shittu  38'	(Report)	Fernández  9' Maldonado  22'

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April 10, 1999 19:00	Costa Rica	2–1	Germany	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)
	Brenes  33' Santana  69'	(Report)	Timm  38'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Ghana	7	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4
Croatia	5	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4
Argentina	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	0
Kazakhstan	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8

April 4, 1999 16:00	Ghana	1–1	Croatia	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Jun Lu (China)
	Ofori-Quaye  68'	(Report)	Deranja  22'

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April 4, 1999 19:00	Argentina	1–0	Kazakhstan	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
	Cambiasso  44'	(Report)

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April 7, 1999 16:00	Ghana	1–0	Argentina	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
	Ofori-Quaye  76'	(Report)

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April 7, 1999 19:00	Croatia	5–1	Kazakhstan	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Jun Lu (China)
	Deranja  7' Miladin  11' Sabolčki  34' Banović  79' Bjelanović  88'	(Report)	Urazayev  67'

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April 10, 1999 16:00	Ghana	3–0	Kazakhstan	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
	Gyan  51'  69' Adu  53'	(Report)

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April 10, 1999 19:00	Croatia	0–0	Argentina	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Jun Lu (China)
		(Report)

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Mexico	7	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3
Republic of Ireland	6	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5
Australia	3	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4
Saudi Arabia	1	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4

April 4, 1999 16:00	Australia	3–1	Saudi Arabia	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
	Culina  29' Maisano  72' Al-Garni  77' (o.g.)	(Report)	Dabo  90'

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April 4, 1999 19:00	Mexico	1–0	Republic of Ireland	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil)
	Márquez  10'	(Report)

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April 7, 1999 16:00	Australia	1–3	Mexico	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 500 Referee: Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil)
	Sterjovski  45'	(Report)	Márquez  2' J. Rodríguez  58' Osorno  83'

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April 7, 1999 19:00	Saudi Arabia	0–2	Republic of Ireland	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
		(Report)	McPhail  42' Duff  65'

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April 10, 1999 16:00	Australia	0–4	Republic of Ireland	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 800 Referee: Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
		(Report)	Sadlier  20' Duff  73' Healy  74' Crossley  90'

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April 10, 1999 19:00	Saudi Arabia	1–1	Mexico	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)
	Al-Saqri  37'	(Report)	L. González  30'

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Mali	6	3	2	0	1	6	6	0
Portugal	4	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Uruguay	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
South Korea	3	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1

April 5, 1999 16:00	Uruguay	1–2	Mali	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Zeljko Siric (Croatia)
	Chevantón  65'	(Report)	Camara  51' Dissa  90'

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April 5, 1999 19:00	South Korea	1–3	Portugal	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Kim K.H.  37'	(Report)	R. Sousa  27' Simão  85'  90' (pen.)

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April 8, 1999 16:00	Uruguay	1–0	South Korea	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Željko Širić (Croatia)
	Chevantón  3'	(Report)

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April 8, 1999 19:00	Mali	2–1	Portugal	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Am. Coulibaly  15' (pen.) Ndiaye  45'	(Report)	P. Costa  55'

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April 11, 1999 16:00	Uruguay	0–0	Portugal	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Olufunmi Orimisan Olaniyan (Nigeria)
		(Report)

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April 11, 1999 19:00	Mali	2–4	South Korea	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Željko Širić (Croatia)
	Dissa  57' Bagayoko  60'	(Report)	Seol K.H.  3'  35' Na H.K.  22' (pen.) Lee D.G.  69'

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Japan	6	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3
United States	6	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1
Cameroon	6	3	2	0	1	4	4	0
England	0	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4

April 5, 1999 16:00	Cameroon	2–1	Japan	Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano Attendance: 12,000 Referee: William Mattus (Costa Rica)
	Komol  72'  89'	(Report)	Takahara  51'

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April 5, 1999 19:00	England	0–1	United States	Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
		(Report)	Califf  12'

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April 8, 1999 16:00	Cameroon	1–0	England	Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano Attendance: 12,000 Referee: William Mattus (Costa Rica)
	Cooper  63' (o.g.)	(Report)

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April 8, 1999 19:00	Japan	3–1	United States	Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain)
	Downing  10' (o.g.) Takahara  51' Ogasawara  85'	(Report)	Futagaki  74'

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April 11, 1999 16:00	Cameroon	1–3	United States	Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain)
	Kioyo  63'	(Report)	Twellman  38'  79' Bocanegra  57'

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April 11, 1999 19:00	Japan	2–0	England	Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Ishikawa  39' Ono  48'	(Report)

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Spain	7	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4
Brazil	6	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5
Zambia	4	3	1	1	1	5	8	−3
Honduras	0	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6

April 5, 1999	Zambia	4–3	Honduras	U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Micallef (Australia)
	Makayi  19' Makufi  44'  55' Mbambara  72'	(Report)	Suazo  9' de León  41'  74'

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April 5, 1999	Spain	2–0	Brazil	U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Ramos (México)
	Gabri  15'  33'	(Report)

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April 8, 1999	Zambia	0–0	Spain	U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Ramos (México)
		(Report)

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April 8, 1999	Honduras	0–3	Brazil	Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Olaniyan (Nigeria)
		(Report)	Edu  36'  80' Matuzalém  41'

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April 11, 1999	Zambia	1–5	Brazil	Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Micallef (Australia)
	Sinkala  39'	(Report)	Ronaldinho  27' Aurélio  45' Baiano  65' Mancini  69' Rodrigo Gral  80'

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April 11, 1999	Honduras	1–3	Spain	Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Guezzaz (Morocco)
	Oliva  76'	(Report)	Pablo  10' Varela  26' Rubén  31'

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Cameroon	6	3	2	0	1	4	4	0
Uruguay	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Argentina	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	0
Costa Rica	4	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1
Zambia	4	3	1	1	1	5	8	−3
Australia	3	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4

Knockout round

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

April 15 - Enugu

Mali (aet)

5

April 18 - Enugu

Cameroon

4

Mali

3

April 14 - Kano

Nigeria

1

Republic of Ireland

1 (3)

April 21 - Kaduna

Nigeria (pen)

1 (5)

Mali

1

April 15 - Port Harcourt

Spain

3

Spain

3

April 18 - Kaduna

United States

2

Spain (pen)

1 (8)

April 14 - Kaduna

Ghana

1 (7)

Ghana

2

April 24 - Lagos

Costa Rica

0

Spain

4

April 14 - Lagos

Japan

0

Paraguay

2 (9)

April 18 - Lagos

Uruguay (pen)

2 (10)

Uruguay

2

April 14 - Calabar

Brazil

1

Brazil

4

April 21 - Lagos

Croatia

0

Uruguay

1

April 15 - Bauchi

Japan

2

Third place

Japan (pen)

1 (5)

April 18 - Ibadan

April 24 - Lagos

Portugal

1 (4)

Japan

2

Mali

1

April 15 - Ibadan

Mexico

0

Uruguay

0

Mexico

4

Argentina

1

Round of 16

April 14, 1999 16:00	Republic of Ireland	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–5 pen.)	Nigeria	Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Jun Lu (China)
	Sadlier  35'	(Report)	Ikedia  70'

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April 14, 1999 16:00	Ghana	2–0	Costa Rica	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain)
	Afriyie  18' Ofori-Quaye  82'	(Report)

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April 14, 1999 19:00	Paraguay	2–2 (a.e.t.) (9–10 pen.)	Uruguay	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Felipe Ramos Rizo (Mexico)
	Santa Cruz  62' (pen.)  86'	(Report)	Chevantón  32' Forlán  49'

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April 14, 1999 19:00	Brazil	4–0	Croatia	U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Ronaldinho  21' (pen.)  45' Fernando Baiano  48' (pen.) Edu  68'	(Report)

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April 15, 1999 16:00	Japan	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 pen.)	Portugal	Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)
	Endo  48'	(Report)	Marco Claudio  80'

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April 15, 1999 16:00	Spain	3–2	United States	Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt Attendance: 15,600 Referee: Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil)
	Pablo  15'  32' Xavi  19'	(Report)	Twellman  49'  90'

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April 15, 1999 19:00	Mexico	4–1	Argentina	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)
	Osorno  52' E. Rodríguez  55' J. Rodríguez  67' L. González  88'	(Report)	Galletti  41'

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April 15, 1999 19:00	Mali	5–4 (a.e.t.)	Cameroon	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)
	Ndiaye  9' Bagayoko  67' Camara  83' Dissa  90'  104'	(Report)	Komol  10'  74' Mbami  23' Kioyo  26'

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Quarter-finals

April 18, 1999 16:00	Uruguay	2–1	Brazil	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Anchen  44' Canobbio  86' (pen.)	(Report)	Fernando Baiano  27'

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April 18, 1999 16:00	Mali	3–1	Nigeria	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Sergei Shmolik (Belarus)
	Bagayoko  1'  72' Diarra  44'	(Report)	Garba  17'

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April 18, 1999 19:00	Japan	2–0	Mexico	Liberty Stadium, Ibadan Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
	Motoyama  4' Ono  24'	(Report)

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April 18, 1999 19:00	Spain	1–1 (a.e.t.) (8–7 pen.)	Ghana	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 19,000 Referee: William Mattus (Costa Rica)
	Barkero  54' (pen.)	(Report)	Ofori-Quaye  90'

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Semi-finals

April 21, 1999 16:00	Mali	1–3	Spain	Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Jun Lu (China)
	Dissa  52'	(Report)	Varela  2'  26' Xavi  90'

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April 21, 1999 19:00	Uruguay	1–2	Japan	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Simon Micallef (Australia)
	Chevantón  24'	(Report)	Takahara  23' Nagai  35'

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Third place play-off

April 24, 1999 14:00	Mali	1–0	Uruguay	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Željko Širić (Croatia)
	Keita  30'	(Report)

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Final

April 24, 1999 17:00	Spain	4–0	Japan	National Stadium, Lagos Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)
	Barkero  5' Pablo  14'  30' Gabri  51'	(Report)

Result

1999 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners
Spain First title

Goalscorers

5 goals Mahamadou Dissa Pablo Couñago 4 goals Gaspard Komol Peter Ofori-Quaye Mamadou Bagayoko Taylor Twellman Javier Chevantón 3 goals Fernando Baiano Edu Ronaldinho Enrico Kern Naohiro Takahara Roque Santa Cruz Gabri Fernando Varela 2 goals Francis Kioyo Zvonimir Deranja Baffour Gyan Damien Duff Richard Sadlier Shinji Ono Abdoulaye Camara Tenema Ndiaye Luis González Rafael Márquez Daniel Osorno Juan Pablo Rodríguez Hashimu Garba Ganiyu Shittu Simão Seol Ki-Hyeon José Barkero Xavi Bernard Makufi 1 goal Esteban Cambiasso Luciano Galletti Jason Culina John Maisano Mile Sterjovski Fábio Aurélio Rodrigo Gral Mancini Matuzalém Modeste M'bami Alberto Brenes Mauricio Garita Allan Meléndez Esteban Santana Ivica Banović Saša Bjelanović Darko Miladin Silvester Sabolčki Patrick Falk Christian Timm Tutu Adu Owusu Afriyie Julio César de León Carlos Oliva Maynor Suazo Garry Crossley Colin Healy Stephen McPhail Yasuhito Endō Tatsuya Ishikawa Masashi Motoyama Yuichiro Nagai Mitsuo Ogasawara Yerlan Urazayev Amadou Coulibaly Mahamadou Diarra Seydou Keita Eduardo Rodríguez Julius Aghahowa Pius Ikedia Nelson Cuevas Sergio Fernández Rubén Maldonado Nelson Vera Marco Claúdio Paulo Costa Ricardo Sousa Saleh Al-Saqri Mohamad Dabo Kim Kun-Hyung Lee Dong-Gook Na Hee-Keun Rubén Suárez Carlos Bocanegra Danny Califf Ryan Futagaki Jorge Anchen Fabián Canobbio Diego Forlán Japhet Makayi Ronald Mbambara Andrew Sinkala Awards Golden Shoe Golden Ball FIFA Fair Play Award Pablo Seydou Keita  Croatia External links FIFA World Youth Championship 1999 RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1999 International association football FIFA · World Cup · Confederations Cup · U-20 World Cup · U-17 World Cup · Olympics · Minor tournaments · World Rankings · Player of the Year · FIFA Ballon d'Or · Teams · Debuts · Competitions · Federations · Codes Asia AFC – Asian Cup Africa CAF – Africa Cup of Nations North, Central America and Caribbean CONCACAF – Gold Cup South America CONMEBOL – Copa América Oceania OFC – Nations Cup Europe UEFA – European Championship Non-FIFA NF-Board – Viva World Cup · IGA · Island Games Games All-Africa Games · Asian Games · CARIFTA Games · East Asian Games · Francophonie Games · IOIG · Lusophony Games · Mediterranean Games · Pan American Games · Pan Arab Games · Pacific Games · South Asian Games · Southeast Asian Games See also International women's football. FIFA U-20 World Cup Tournaments Tunisia 1977 · Japan 1979 · Australia 1981 · Mexico 1983 · USSR 1985 · Chile 1987 · Saudi Arabia 1989 · Portugal 1991 · Australia 1993 · Qatar 1995 · Malaysia 1997 · Nigeria 1999 · Argentina 2001 · UAE 2003 · Netherlands 2005 · Canada 2007 · Egypt 2009 · Colombia 2011 · Turkey 2013 · New Zealand 2015 Qualification AFC · CAF · CONCACAF · CONMEBOL · OFC · UEFA Squads 1977 · 1979 · 1981 · 1983 · 1985 · 1987 · 1989 · 1991 · 1993 · 1995 · 1997 · 1999 · 2001 · 2003 · 2005 · 2007 · 2009 · 2011 Team appearances