The 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Argentina between 17 June and 8 July 2001. The 2001 championship was the 13th contested. The tournament took part in six cities, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Salta, and Mar del Plata. The Golden Boot was won by Javier Saviola of Argentina who scored 11 goals.
Qualification The following 24 teams qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. Argentina qualified automatically as host.
ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)2000 AFC Youth Championship CAF (Africa)2001 African Youth Championship CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)2001 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)Host nation2001 South American Youth Championship OFC (Oceania)2001 OFC U-20 ChampionshipUEFA (Europe)2000 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship
1.Teams that made their debut. 2.Czech Republic made their debut as independent nation. They were chosen as the descendant of the now-defunct Czechoslovakia, which qualified in 1983 and 1989 tournaments.
Venues Buenos AiresCórdobaJosé Amalfitani Stadium Estadio Olímpico Chateau CarrerasCapacity: 49,540Capacity: 57,000MendozaRosarioEstadio Malvinas ArgentinasEstadio Newell's Old BoysCapacity: 40,268Capacity: 42,000SaltaMar del PlataEstadio Padre Ernesto MartearenaEstadio José María MinellaCapacity: 20,408Capacity: 35,354
Match officials ConfederationRefereeAFC Mark Shield (Australia) Sun Baojie (China) Toru Kamikawa (Japan) Naser Al Hamdan (Saudi Arabia) Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)CAF Coffi Codjia (Benin) Hailemelak Tessema (Ethiopia) Abdullhakim Shelmani (Libya) Hichem Guirat (Tunisia)CONCACAF José Pineda (Honduras) Jagdeesh Bhimull (Trinidad and Tobago) Kevin Stott (United States)CONMEBOL Claudio Martín (Argentina) Wilson de Souza (Brazil) Guido Aros (Chile) Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)UEFA Alain Hamer (Luxembourg) Terje Hauge (Norway) Sorin Corpodean (Romania) Mike McCurry (Scotland) Manuel Mejuto González (Spain) Orhan Erdemir (Turkey)
Mascot The Official Mascot of the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship is a Rhea named Ñandy, he was created by an Argentine Illustrator Conrado Giusti https://tuchogiusti.wordpress.com/ilustracion/
Sponsorship
FIFA partners Adidas Fujifilm JVC Avaya Coca-Cola Budweiser McDonald's Toshiba Hyundai MasterCard
National supporters FIFA.com FIFA Fair Play
Argentinian local partners Movicom Televisión Cable Color
Squads
Group stage All times in Argentina Standard Time: (UTC−03:00)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
GK 18 Germán Lux CB 4 Mauro Cetto CB 2 Nicolás Burdisso CB 13 Diego Colotto DM 14 Leonardo Ponzio DM 5 Nicolás Medina CM 3 Julio Arca (c) AM 10 Leandro Romagnoli AM 15 Andrés D'Alessandro CF 7 Javier Saviola CF 11 Maxi RodríguezSubstitutes: DF 12 Ariel Seltzer FW 16 Mauro Rosales FW 9 Esteban Herrera Manager: José Pekerman
GK 1 Maxwell Banahene RB 15 John Paintsil CB 14 John Mensah CB 5 Patrick Villars LB 10 Derek Boateng DM 4 Michael Essien RM 16 Kwaku Duah LM 2 Sulley Muntari AM 8 Ibrahim Abdul Razak CF 9 Razak Pimpong CF 6 Emmanuel Pappoe (c)Substitutes: FW 7 Samuel Thompson FW 11 Frank Osei Manager: Emmanuel Afranie
Result
Goalscorers
11 goals Javier Saviola
6 goals
Adriano Djibril Cissé
5 goals
Robert Benjamin Auer
4 goals
Maxi Rodríguez Winston Parks Mohamed El Yamani
3 goals
Esteban Herrera Oleksiy Byelik
2 goals
Fabricio Coloccini Andrés D'Alessandro Leandro Romagnoli Greg Owens Qu Bo Erick Scott Tomáš Jun Petr Musil Wael Riad Solomon Andargachew Hervé Bugnet Philippe Mexès Christoph Preuß Derek Boateng John Mensah Emad Mohammed Koji Yamase Youssouf Hersi Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Julio González DaMarcus Beasley
1 goal
Mantorras Mendonça Rasca Diego Colotto Alejandro Domínguez Eduardo Costa Fernando Kaká Pinga Mario Berrios Rodrigo Millar Sebastián Pardo Jaime Valdés Carlos Hernández Christian Montero Michal Macek Jorge Guagua Roberto Miña Jorge Vargas Hussein Amin Gamal Hamza Abay Yordanos Bekele Zewdu Daniel Sjölund Mika Väyrynen Bernard Mendy Thorsten Burkhardt Ibrahim Abdul Razak Michael Essien Abbas Inusah Ammar Hanoosh Salah Al-Deen Siamand Fabian Dawkins Koji Morisaki Yutaka Tahara Jurgen Colin Santi Kolk Rahamat Mustapha Rafael van der Vaart Pedro Benítez José Devaca Walter Fretes Felipe Giménez Tomás Guzmán Santiago Salcedo Denis Stoyan Ruslan Valeyev Kenny Arena Edson Buddle Brad Davis
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFIFA Fair Play Award Javier Saviola Javier Saviola
Final ranking
External links FIFA World Youth Championship Argentina 2001 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 2001 FIFA Technical Report