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1977 FIFA World Youth Championship بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم 1977 Host country Tunisia Dates 27 June – 10 July Teams 16 (from 5 confederations) Venue(s) 4 (in 3 host cities) Champions
Soviet Union (1st title) Runners-up
Mexico Third place
Brazil Fourth place
Uruguay Matches played 28 Goals scored 70 (2.5 per match) Top scorer(s)
Guina (4 goals)Best player(s)
Vladimir Bessonov Fair play award
Brazil
International football competition
The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the
FIFA World Youth Championship , hosted by
Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977, in three venues —
Tunis ,
Sousse and
Sfax . The 28 matches played were the smallest number in tournament history. The
USSR U20 , defeated
Mexico U20 in a
penalty shootout , in the final held at Tunis's
Stade El Menzah .
The Tournament Committee was chaired by
FIFA Vice-President
Harry Cavan , who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.
Qualification
Squads
For a list of all squads that began play in the group stage of the tournament, see
1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Venues
Group stage
The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.
Group A
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Group stage result
1
Mexico
3
1
2
0
8
2
+6
4
Advance to
semi-finals
2
Spain
3
1
1
1
3
3
0
3
3
France
3
1
1
1
3
3
0
3
4
Tunisia (H)
3
1
0
2
1
7
−6
2
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
FIFA World Youth Championship 1977 winners
Soviet Union First title
Awards
Goalscorers
Guina of Brazil won the
Golden Shoe award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Final ranking
Notes
^ The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.
^ The FIFA match report states "
Russia " here, which is an
anachronism .
^
a
b The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.
^ The FIFA match report anachronistically states
Eritrea .
^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes
External links
Tournaments Finals Squads Qualification