The 1985
FIFA U-16 World Championship, the first edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of
Beijing
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Shanghai
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Tianjin
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Dalian in
People's Republic of China
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from July 31, 1985, to August 11, 1985. Players born after August 1, 1968, can participate in this tournament. The total attendance for the tournament was a record 1,230,976 but in 2017 India U-17 World cup surpassed this with a record attendance of 1,347,133.
Venues
Qualified Teams
Squads
For full squad lists for the 1985 U-16 World Championship see ''
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Referees
Asia
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Fallaj Al-Shanar
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Chen Shengcai
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Cui Baoyin
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Education
* Catholic University of Ireland
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Zhang Daqiao
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Hassan Abdullah Al Mullah
Africa
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Simon Bantsimba
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Karim Camara
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Alhati Salahudeen
CONCACAF
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Carlos Alfaro
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Angelo Bratsis
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Joaquin Urrea Reyes
South America
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Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
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Carlos Espósito
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Juan Ortube
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Europe
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Miklós Nagy
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Claudio Pieri
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Career
Belonging to the AIA section of Genoa, he began his career in Serie A in the Inter Milan, Inter - A.S. Roma, Roma match on 18 May 1975 , ending 0-2 for the ...
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Karl-Heinz Tritschler
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Oceania
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Chris Bambridge
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Group stages
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stages
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Third place play-off
Final
Result
Goalscorers
Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the
Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 91 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
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Marcel Witeczek
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William
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Billa Momoh
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Bismarck Barreto Faria
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Guo Zhuang
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Victor Igbinoba
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Abdulaziz Al Razgan
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Hugo Maradona
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Paul Trimboli
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Mauricio
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Xie Yuxin
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Herve Kakou
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Mohamed Soumah
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Mohamed Sylla
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Salifou Koita
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László Marik
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Zoltán Kanál
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Giorgio Bresciani
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Elias Ledesma
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Boushal Al Boushal
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Curtis Pride
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Diego Álvarez
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Fernando Cáceres
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Lorenzo Frutos
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Club career
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* Craig Naven
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Stan Thodis
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Erwin Sánchez
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Dubbed ''Platini'',[Marco Etcheverry
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Andre Cruz
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Marques
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Natalino Rodrigues Antunes
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Cao Xiandong
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Sun Bowei
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Tu Shengqiao
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Eric Mantot
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Etienne Salles
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Hernán Medford
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Lamine Toure
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Zsolt Huszák
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Andrea Caverzan
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Francisco Cortes
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Fatai Atere
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Jonathan Akpoborie
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Club career
Akpoborie started his professional career at Julius Berger, ...
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Joseph Babatunde
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Adel Al Abdulla
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Saleh Al Mohannadi
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Adel Al Dosary
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Nasser Al Fahad
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Saadoun Al Suraiti
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Larry McPhail
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Detlev Dammeier
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Dirk Konerding
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Klaus Mirwald
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Bi Sheng (playing against West Germany)
Final ranking
References
External links
FIFA U-16 World Championship China PR 1985 FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)an
(Part 2)
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