The 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1997 FIFA/
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World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 11th staging of the
FIFA World Youth Championship
The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 wh ...
. It was held from 16 June to 5 July 1997 in
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...
. It was the first FIFA tournament hosted by a Southeast Asian country.
Venues
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament.
:1.Teams that made their debut.
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see ''
1997 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Below are the squadsfor the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship tournament in Malaysia
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Group stages
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.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
Round of 16
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Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards
Goalscorers
Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Shoe award for scoring ten goals. In total, 165 goals were scored by 101 different players, with seven of them credited as own goals.
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* Adaílton
;5 goals
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David Trezeguet
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Trezeguet began his career in Argentina with Club Atlético Platense at the age of eight, progressing through their youth sys ...
;4 goals
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Bernardo Romeo
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He amassed Argentine Primera División totals of 226 games and 85 goals, mainly at the service of San Lorenzo with whom he had three spe ...
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Juan Román Riquelme
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Alex
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Marcelo Zalayeta
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Zalayeta began his club career with Danubio before moving to Peñarol for a season in 1997, where he won the Uruguayan Primera Divisi� ...
Michael Owen
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Thierry Henry
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Eduardo Lillingston
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Lillingston has spent the majority of his career playing for various ...
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José Luis Deus
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He played 140 Segunda División matches over five seasons, scoring a total o ...
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Peter Luccin
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Harutaka Ono
is a former Japanese football player.
Club career
Ono was born in Saitama Prefecture on May 12, 1978. After graduating from high school, he joined Kashiwa Reysol in 1997. He played many matches as offensive midfielder from 1998. At 1999 J.Lea ...
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Shinji Jojo
is a former Japanese football player.
Club career
Jojo was born in Hamura on August 28, 1977. After graduating from high school, he joined the Urawa Reds in 1996. In 1997, he played several matches as left side midfielder and left side back. Ho ...
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Damien Duff
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He began his prof ...
Trevor Molloy
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Nicolás Olivera
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Diego Placente
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Club career
Born in Buenos Aires, Placente started playing professionally in 1996 with Argentinos Juniors, before moving to Argentine gian ...
Pablo Aimar
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Aimar played as an attacking midfielder. After starting his senior career at River Plate in 1 ...
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Daniel Allsopp
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As a player he notably played for Manchester City for several seasons and was part of their team that earned promotion back to the Premi ...
Dwayne De Rosario
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Jason Bent
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Steve Kindel
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Career
Club
Kindel was a former standout at Simon Fraser University, where he won the 1997 NAIA Pacific Northwest Conference ...
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Li Jinyu
Li Jinyu (; born 6 July 1977) is a former international player who is currently the head coach of Wuhan.
As a player he represented Liaoning Whowin and Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League and spent one season on loan at French club ...
Alonso Solís
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Known as ''El Mariachi'', Solís made his professional debut for Sap ...
Steven Bryce
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Jamie Carragher
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Awudu Issaka
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Club career
Issaka was born in Sunyani. He started playing football at the youth teams of Asante Kotoko, before he moved to Prampram Migh ...
Joseph Ansah
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Stephen Appiah
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Shunsuke Nakamura
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Yuichiro Nagai
is a Japanese former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He made four appearances for the Japan national football team, Japan national team scoring once.
Club career
Nagai playe ...
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Nik Ahmad Fadly Nik Leh
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Career
Coaching
In 2013, Nik Fadly has been appointed as an assistant coach for Kelan ...
Paulo da Silva
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Lee Jung-min
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David Albelda
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Miguel Ángel Angulo
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Yaser Salem Ali
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Mikaël Silvestre
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Youssef Safri
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Ramiro Corrales
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(playing against Republic of Ireland)
* Alejandro Meloño (playing against Ghana)
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