1979 FIFA World Youth Championship final
Event | 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship | ||||||
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Date | 7 September 1979 19:00 | ||||||
Venue | National Stadium, Tokyo | ||||||
Referee | José Roberto Wright (Brazil) | ||||||
Attendance | 52,000 | ||||||
The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship Final was a football match that was played on at the
Argentine raising superstar Diego Maradona, who scored a goal, was named the best player of the competition.
Background
Argentina had won its first FIFA World Cup just one year before. César Luis Menotti, who had managed the senior squad that crowned champion in Argentina, coached the team. Ernesto Duchini –who was part of the coaching staff to discover new talents around the country– had selected the players that were then under the guidance of Menotti to win the title.[2]
Duchini had been in charge of Argentine youth teams since 1954, and was a cornerstone of the coaching staff that led that group of players to achieve their first title. Some of the players discovered by Duchini were Roberto Perfumo, Carlos García Cambón, Oscar Más, Rubén Ayala, Oscar Ortíz, Jorge Olguín, Raúl Savoy, among others.[3]
Duchini worked side-by-side with Miguel Gitano Juárez, former player of
The players selected to play the tournament were goalkeepers Sergio García (
Diego Maradona was the playmaker and leader of that team. His performance in the competition was so stunning that was awarded the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament. He also won the Silver Boot as the second topscorer behind teammate Ramón Díaz.[2]
Road to the final
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Opponent | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesia | 5–0 | Match 1 | Hungary
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5–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yugoslavia | 1–0 | Match 2 | Guinea | 3–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Poland | 4–1 | Match 3 | Uruguay | 0–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group B winners
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Final standings | Group D runners-up
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Opponent | Result | Knockout stage | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Algeria | 5–0 | Quarter finals | Paraguay | 2–2 ( aet) (6–5 pen. )
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Uruguay | 2–0 | Semi-finals | Poland | 1–0 |
Match details
Argentina | 3–1 | Soviet Union |
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Alves 68' Díaz 71' Maradona 76' |
Report | Ponomaryov 52' |
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Aftermath
The second world title within two years were widely celebrated by people throughout the country, as they had done the previous year after the
The media also praised the team's style of play, attributed to Menotti's philosophy toward the game.[3]
Sirs, you are already champions, I don't mind the result of this game because you have shown that you are the best in the world. Nothing to hit kicks or to do crazy things; let's go, play and amuse the 35,000 Japanese at the grandstands
— Manager César Menotti's talk to the players before the final match.
Beyond the great performance of the team in general, media focused on the performances of Argentinos Juniors' star Diego Maradona (highlighting his control of the ball, passing and dribbling) and Ramón Díaz's scoring prowess at the tournament.[4]
At their returning from Japan, the players were carried in helicopter to the Atlanta stadium, where the flagship landed on the field as part of the celebrations for the championship won in Tokyo.[5]
See also
References
- ^ World Youth Cup (U-20) 1979 (Japan) by Pablo Ciullini, Erik Garin and Héctor V. Martínez on the RSSSF
- ^ a b c Argentina Sub-20 1979 on El Gráfico
- ^ a b Argentina ganaba su primer mundial juvenil on Diario Jornada, 6 Sep 2014
- ^ a b Hace 37 años, Argentina ganaba su primer Mundial Juvenil by Gustavo Lenti, Telam, 7 Sep 2016
- ^ La delirante llegada del campeón sub 20 (video), El Gráfico