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

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Men's football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Omnilife Stadium
Dates19–28 October
Competitors144 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal  Mexico
Silver medal  Argentina
Bronze medal  Uruguay
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The men's

Omnilife Stadium from 19 to 28 October 2011. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their men's U-22 national teams, with 3 no-age-limit players per team allowed.[1] [2] 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 an eight-team tournament, which is a drop from 12 at the 2007 games. Preliminary matches commenced on 19 October. 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 a 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.

Teams

Qualification

Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation – – 1  Mexico
CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament 28 March – 10 April 2011 Guatemala Guatemala 3*  
Trinidad and Tobago
*
CONMEBOL Qualifying Tournament
 12 March – 9 April 2011 Ecuador 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.[3]
  • 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.[4]

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's team 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.[2]

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)[5]

Qualified for the Semifinals

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
Mexico 2–1 Ecuador
Enriquez
80'		 [1] Congo 8'
El Salvador
)
Ecuador 0–1 Uruguay
[2] Puppo 4'
Trinidad and Tobago
Peralta 30' Report Gay 12'
Trinidad and Tobago 
1–1 Ecuador
Casear 69' [3] Quiñonez 17'
Mexico 5–2 Uruguay
Amione 15', 48'
Ponce 29'
Zavala 42'
Peralta 71'		 Report Prieto 51'
M. Rodríguez 57'
Trinidad and Tobago
Abero 17' [4] Winchester 10'
El Salvador
)

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
Costa Rica 1–0 Cuba
Blanco 55' Report[dead link]
Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara
)
Argentina 1–1 Brazil
Araujo 74' [5]
Henrique
63'
Costa Rica 0–3 Argentina
[6] Fragapane 40'
Pezzella 60'
Kruspzky 76'
Brazil 0–0 Cuba
Report[dead link]
Cuba 0–1 Argentina
[7] Laba 79'
Brazil 1–3 Costa Rica
Henrique
30'		 [8] B. Vega 1'
McDonald 20', 43'

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
26 October –
Estadio Omnilife
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 
Estadio Omnilife
 
 Argentina0
 
 Argentina1
 
 
 Uruguay0
 
Third place
 
 
28 October –
Estadio Omnilife
 
 
 Costa Rica 1
 
 
 Uruguay 2

Semifinals

Mexico 3–0 Costa Rica
Peralta 19', 38', 46' Report[dead link]
Argentina 1–0 Uruguay
Pezzella 9' Report

Bronze Medal match

Costa Rica 1–2 Uruguay
McDonald 81' (pen.) Report G. Silva 48'
Píriz 61'

Gold Medal match

Mexico 1–0 Argentina
Amione 75' Report
El Salvador
)
 2011 Pan American Games winners 

Mexico
Fourth title

Goalscorers

Oribe Peralta, top scorer
6 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's football  Mexico

Diego Reyes

  
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
  
Diego Rodríguez
Mathías 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

  1. ^ https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/2011-guadalajara-tomo-2-lq.pdf Guadalajara 2011 - Memoria Panamericana, p. 142 (official report) on PanamSports.org
  2. ^ a b Qualification standards[usurped]
  3. ^ Olympic qualifying, Pan Ams berths allocated Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Trinidad men replace Guatemala in Pan Am field Archived 2011-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Competition summary[dead link]
  6. ^ Canada women's soccer open Pan Ams with win[permanent dead link]
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