The 1999 South American Youth Championship (Sudamericana sub-20) is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Argentina between 5 and 25 January 1999, the 23rd time the competition had been held and the 2nd to take place in the country. Argentina finished undefeated, winning their 3rd trophy.

Format The teams are separated in two groups of five, and each team plays four matches in a pure round-robin stage. The three top competitors advance to a single final group of six, wherein each team plays five matches. The top four teams in the final group qualify to the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Squads For a list of all the squads in the final tournament, see 1999 South American Youth Championship squads.

The following teams entered the tournament:

(host)

First group stage Group A TeamPtsPldWDLGFGA124400121943011246420248341035140400439

Results

Group B TeamPtsPldWDLGFGA1043107384220827421183140134814013415 Results

Final group TeamPtsPldWDLGFGA1254019285221547521214865203685512241445113810

17 January2–12–30–119 January1–31–20–521 January2–30–02–123 January1–06–00–125 January2–22–21–0

Qualification to World Youth Championship The four best performing teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Goalscorers

9 goals Luciano Galletti

7 goals Rodrigo Gral

5 goals Nicolás Córdova Edu

4 goals Javier Chevantón Patricio Neira

3 goals Gamadiel García David Pizarro Ronaldinho Roque Santa Cruz

2 goals Omar Pouso Rodolfo Moya Aldo Duscher Pablo Aimar Daniel Montenegro Germán Rivarola Ernesto Farías Juan Arango Leandro Sequera Marco Bonito Luis Cordero Fernando Carreño Salvador Cabañas Nelson Vera

1 goal Rubén Alamanza Fernando Crosa Líder Mejía Gerzon Chacón Eriberto Cassio Lincoln Fábio Aurélio Ronald García Matuzalém Mauricio Molina César Pellegrín Diego Forlán Marcos Aguilera Fabián Canobbio Carlos Bueno Paulo da Silva Cristian Gil

1 goal (cont.) Oswaldo Carrión Nelson Cuevas Marcio Carioca Rubén Maldonado Marcinho Marcio Carioca Esteban Cambiasso Milovan Mirosevic Marcio Carioca Sergio Fernandez Maricá Piero Alva Pedro Ascoy Gonzalo Sorondo Gustavo Victoria Ronald Gutiérrez Ferdy Apuri Jeffrey Díaz

Notes Argentina and Uruguay were looking to finish in the top 4 in order to qualify for the World Youth Championship, a competition which the two sides have thoroughly dominated, having won 9 of the 16 World Youth titles between them.

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