Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Men's football tournament at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Omnilife Stadium
Dates	October 19 – October 28
Competitors	144 from 8 nations
Medalists
Mexico    Argentina    Uruguay
«2007	2015»

Football at the 2011 Pan American Games
Tournament
men  women
Squads
men  women

The men's association football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games were held in Guadalajara, Mexico at the Omnilife Stadium from October 19 to 28, 2011. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their men's U-22 national teams.^[1] Ecuador were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating Jamaica 2-1, but they were eliminated during the group stage.

For these Games, the men competed in a 8-team tournament, which is a drop from 12 at the 2007 games. Preliminary matches commenced on October 19. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool advanced to an four-team single-elimination bracket.

Mexico won the gold medal for the fourth time in this competition, defeating six-time gold-medalists Argentina in the tournament's final. Uruguay took the bronze medal.

Contents 1 Teams 1.1 Qualification 1.2 Squads 2 Format 3 Preliminary round 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 4 Knockout stage 4.1 Semifinals 4.2 Bronze Medal match 4.3 Gold Medal match 5 Goalscorers 6 Medalists 7 Final standings 8 References

Teams

Qualification

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Qualifying Tournament	Mar 28 – Apr 10, 2011	Guatemala	3*	Cuba  Costa Rica  Guatemala  Trinidad and Tobago*
South American Qualifying Tournament	Mar 12 – Apr 9, 2011	Ecuador	4	Brazil  Uruguay  Argentina  Ecuador
TOTAL			8

• The highest finisher from each the Caribbean and Central American regions will qualify, along with the best qualifying team from either region.^[2]

• Guatemala later withdrew due to issues of discipline within the team. They were replaced by Trinidad and Tobago, after Honduras and Panama who finished ahead of Trinidad and Tobago declined to participate.^[3]

Squads

The men's tournament is a full international tournament with a U-22 age limit. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players September 2011. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.^[1]

Argentina Brazil Costa Rica Cuba

Ecuador Trinidad and Tobago Mexico Uruguay

Format

• Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• The third and fourth placed teams are eliminated from the competition.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)^[4]

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Group A

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
Uruguay	3	1	1	1	4	6	-2	4
Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
Ecuador	3	0	1	2	2	4	-2	1

October 19, 2011 20:00	Mexico	2 – 1	Ecuador	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Marlon Mejia (El Salvador)
	Peralta  25' Enriquez  80'	Report	Congo  8'

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October 21, 2011 13:00	Ecuador	0 – 1	Uruguay	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Erick Roberto Andino (Honduras)
		Report	Puppo  4'

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October 21, 2011 20:00	Mexico	1 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)
	Peralta  30'	Report	Gay  12'

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October 23, 2011 10:00	Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 1	Ecuador	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: David Gantar (Canada)
	Casear  69'	Report	Quiñonez  17'

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October 23, 2011 17:00	Mexico	5 – 2	Uruguay	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)
	Amione  15', 48' Ponce  29' Zavala  42' Peralta  71'	Report	Prieto  51' M. Rodríguez  57'

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October 25, 2011* 10:00	Uruguay	1 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Marlon Mejía (El Salvador)
	Abero  17'	Report	Winchester  10'

• Match was moved to October 25, because of a volcanic eruption spewed ash clouds in Chile which prevented the team from Uruguay to travel to Guadalajara in time.^[5]

Group B

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
Costa Rica	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
Brazil	3	0	2	1	2	4	-2	2
Cuba	3	0	1	2	0	2	-2	1

October 19, 2011 10:00	Costa Rica	1 – 0	Cuba	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Ricardo Arellano (Mexico)
	Blanco  55'	Report

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October 19, 2011 17:00	Argentina	1 – 1	Brazil	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)
	Araujo  74'	Report	Henrique  63'

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October 21, 2011 10:00	Costa Rica	0 – 3	Argentina	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: David Gantar (Canada)
		Report	Fragapane  40' Pezzella  60' Kruspzky  76'

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October 21, 2011 17:00	Brazil	0 – 0	Cuba	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)
		Report

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October 23, 2011 13:00	Cuba	0 – 1	Argentina	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Erick Roberto Andino (Honduras)
		Report	Laba  79'

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October 23, 2011 20:00	Brazil	1 – 3	Costa Rica	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Ricardo Arellano (Mexico)
	Henrique  30'	Report	B. Vega  1' McDonald  20', 43'

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	October 26, 17:00 - Estadio Omnilife
	Mexico	3
	Costa Rica	0
					October 28, 20:00 - Estadio Omnilife
					Mexico	1
					Argentina	0
					Third place
	October 26, 20:00 - Estadio Omnilife			October 28, 17:00 - Estadio Omnilife
	Argentina	1		Costa Rica	1
	Uruguay	0			Uruguay	2

Semifinals

October 26, 2011 17:00	Mexico	3 – 0	Costa Rica	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Erick Roberto Andino (Honduras)
	Peralta  19', 38', 46'	Report

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October 26, 2011 20:00	Argentina	1 – 0	Uruguay	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)
	Pezzella  9'	Report

Bronze Medal match

October 28, 2011 17:00	Costa Rica	1 – 2	Uruguay	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)
	McDonald  81' (pen.)	Report	G. Silva  48' Píriz  61'

Gold Medal match

October 28, 2011 20:00	Mexico	1 – 0	Argentina	Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara Referee: Marlon Mejia (El Salvador)
	Amione  75'	Report

2011 Pan American Games Winners
Mexico 4th title

Goalscorers

6 goals

• Oribe Peralta

3 goals

• Jonathan McDonald
• Jerónimo Amione

2 goals

• Germán Pezzella
• Henrique

1 goal

Sergio Araujo Franco Fragapane Lucas Kruspzky Matías Laba Danny Blanco Luis Congo Michael Quiñónez

Jorge Enríquez Miguel Ángel Ponce Jesús Zavala Trevin Caesar Jamal Gay Shahdon Winchester

Mathias Abero Facundo Píriz Mauricio Prieto Federico Puppo Maximiliano Rodríguez Gastón Silva

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's football	Mexico (MEX) José de Jesús Corona Hugo Isaác Rodríguez Hiram Mier Néstor Araujo Dárvin Chávez Jesús Zavala Javier Aquino Carlos Emilio Orrantía Oribe Peralta Othoniel Arce Jerónimo Amione José Antonio Rodríguez Ricardo Bocanegra Jorge Enríquez César Ibáñez Miguel Ángel Ponce Isaác Brizuela Diego Reyes	Argentina (ARG) Esteban Andrada Germán Pezzella Lucas Kruspzky Hugo Nervov Ezequiel Cirigliano Leandro González Pirez Matías Laba Leonardo Ferreyra Carlos Luque Michael Hoyos Sergio Araujo Rodrigo Rey David Achucarro Franco Fragapane Lucas Villafáñez Adrián Martínez Fernando Coniglio Alan Ruiz	Uruguay (URU) Matías Cubero Guillermo de los Santos Gastón Silva Adrián Gunino Facundo Píriz Mauricio Prieto Leonardo Pais Gonzalo Papa Federico Puppo Tabaré Viudez Maximiliano Rodríguez Martín Rodríguez Santiago Silva Emiliano Albín Diego Rodríguez Mathias Abero Gianni Rodríguez Matías Britos

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Mexico	4-1-0
	Argentina	3-1-1
	Uruguay	2-1-2
4	Costa Rica	2-0-3
5	Trinidad and Tobago	0-3-0
6	Brazil	0-2-1
7	Ecuador	0-1-2
8	Cuba	0-1-2

References