GRi Sports 08-04-99

Soccer-World Youth championship results

Soccer-World Youth championship leading scorers:

Soccer-World youth championship standings:

LAGOS(Nigeria) 8 April 

Results in the World Youth (under-20) soccer championship on Wednesday:

Group A (in Lagos)

Nigeria 2 Germany 0

Scorers: Ganiyu Shittu 60, Hashimu Garba 70

Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 20,000

Paraguay 3 Costa Rica 1

Scorers: Paraguay - Roque SantaCruz 26, Nelson Vera 60, Nelson Cuevas 65

Costa Rica - Mauricio Garita 27

HT: 1-1; Att: 10,000

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Group B (in Kaduna)

Ghana 1 Argentina 0

Scorer: Peter Ofori-Quaye 77

Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 5,000

Croatia 5 Kazakhstan 1

Scorers: Croatia - Zvonimir Deranja 8, Ali Aliyev 37og, Silvester Sabolcki 79, Ivica Banovic 83, Sasa Bjelanovic 90 Kazakhstan - Yerlan Urazayev 67

HT: 2-0; Att: 5,000

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Group C (in Ibadan)

Mexico 3 Australia 1

Scorers: Mexico - Rafael Marquez 2, Juan Rodriguez 58pen, Daniel Osorno 83

Australia - Mile Sterjovski 45

Halftime: 1-1; Attendance: 2,000

Saudi Arabia 0 Ireland 2

Scorers: Stephen Mcphail 41, Damien Duff 54

HT: 0-1; Att: 2,000

Leading scorers at the World Youth soccer championships after Wednesday's matches:

3 - Enrico Kern (Germany)

2 - Gaspard Komol (Cameroon), Bernard Makufi (Zambia), Julio Leon (Honduras), Franscisco Gabri (Spain), Pedro Simao (Portugal), Peter Ofori-Quaye (Ghana), Rafael Marquez (Mexico), Zvonimir Deranja (Croatia)

1 - Julius Aghahowa (Nigeria), Allan Melendez (Costa Rica), (Croatia), Peter Ofori-Quaye (Ghana), Patrick Falk (Germany), Jason Culina (Australia), John Masaino (Australia), Dabo Mohammed (Saudi Arabia), Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina), Rafael Marquez (Mexico), Ernesto Chevanton (Uruguay), Abdullahi Kamara (Mali), Mahamadou Dissa (Mali), Naohiro Takahara (Japan), Japhet Makayi (Zambia), Roland Mbabara (Zambia), David Suazo (Honduras), Ricardo Sousa (Portugal), Dan Cliff (U.S.), Jin Seok-Woo (Korea), Ganiyu Shittu (Nigeria), Hashimu Garba (Nigeria), Stephen Mcphail (Ireland), Juan Rodriguez (Mexico), Daniel Osorno (Mexico), Yerlan Urazayev (Kazakhstan), Damien Duff (Ireland), Silvester Sabolcki (Croatia), Ivica Banovic (Croatia), Sasa Bjelanovic (Croatia), Roque SantaCruz (Paraguay), Nelson Vera (Paraguay), Nelson Cuevas (Paraguay), Mauricio Garita (Costa Rica), Mile Sterjovski (Australia)

World youth championship standings after Wednesday's matches:

Group A P W D L F A Pts

1. Nigeria 2 1 1 0 3 1 4

2. Germany 2 1 0 1 4 2 3

3. Paraguay 2 1 0 1 3 5 3

4. Costa Rica 2 0 1 1 2 4 1

Group B

1. Croatia 2 1 1 0 6 2 4

2. Ghana 1 1 1 0 2 1 4

3. Argentina 2 1 0 1 1 1 3

4. Kazakhstan 2 0 0 2 1 6 0

Group C

1. Mexico 2 2 0 0 4 1 6

2. Ireland 2 1 0 1 2 1 3

3. Australia 2 1 0 1 4 4 3

4. Saudi Arabia 2 0 0 2 1 5 0

Group D

1 Portugal 1 1 0 0 3 1 3

2 Mali 1 1 0 0 2 1 3

3 Uruguay 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

4 Korea 1 0 0 1 1 3 0

Group E

1 Cameroon 1 1 0 0 2 1 3

2 U.S. 1 1 0 0 1 0 3

3 England 1 0 0 1 0 1 0

4 Japan 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Group F

1 Spain 1 1 0 0 2 0 3

2 Zambia 1 1 0 0 4 3 3

3 Honduras 1 0 0 1 3 4 0

4 Brazil 1 0 0 1 0 2 0