The 1989
FIFA World Youth Championship
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took place in
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Ara ...
between 16 February and 3 March 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place across four cities:
Riyadh
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,
Jeddah
Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...
,
Dammam
Dammam ( ar, الدمّام ') is the fifth-most populous city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. It is the capital of the Eastern Province. With a total population of 1,252,523 as of 2020. The judicial and administrative ...
, and
Ta'if
Taif ( ar, , translit=aṭ-Ṭāʾif, lit=The circulated or encircled, ) is a city and governorate in the Makkan Region of Saudi Arabia. Located at an elevation of in the slopes of the Hijaz Mountains, which themselves are part of the Sarat M ...
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Qualification
:1.Teams that made their debut.
:2.Replaced , who was disqualified from the tournament due to the
Cachirules scandal.
Match officials
;Africa
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Badara Sene
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Idrissa Sarr
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Neji Jouini
;Asia
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Abdul Al Nasri
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Chen Shengcai
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Ahmed Mohammed Jassim
;Europe
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Hubert Forstinger
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Tullio Lanese
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Neil Midgley
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Egil Nervik
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Aron Schmidhuber
Aron Schmidhuber (born 28 February 1947 in Ottobrunn) is a retired football referee from Germany. He refereed two matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament fo ...
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Alan Snoddy
Alan Gordon Snoddy (born 29 March 1955) is a retired Northern Irish football referee, known for having refereed two matches in the FIFA World Cup: one in 1986 and one in 1990. At the 1986 World Cup Snoddy was appointed to referee the game bet ...
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Alexey Spirin
Alexey Nikolayevich Spirin (russian: Алексей Николаевич Спирин; born 4 January 1952, in Ruzayevka, Mordovian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a former football referee from Russia. He refereed one match in the 1990 FIFA ...
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Marcel van Langenhove
;North, Central America and Caribbean
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Arturo Angeles
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Biography
Angeles was born in Mexico City.
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Arturo Brizio Carter
Arturo Brizio Carter (born 9 March 1956) is a Mexican former association football referee. He is mostly known for supervising six matches in the FIFA World Cup, three each in 1994 and 1998. He gave seven red cards ( a record for the tournament ...
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José Carlos Ortíz
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
;South America
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Juan Antonio Bava
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Elias Jácome
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José Roberto Wright
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He i ...
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José Torres Cadena
Squads
''For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see
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Group stages
The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stages
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Third place play-off
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Final
Result
Awards
Goalscorers
Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the
Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
;5 goals
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Oleg Salenko
;3 goals
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Bismarck Barreto Faria
Bismarck Barreto Faria, better known as Bismarck (born 11 November 1969) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Bismarck was born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro State. His professional career ...
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Marcelo Henrique
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Sonny Anderson
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Christopher Ohenhen
Christopher Nusa Ohenhen (born 14 October 1970), known as Ohen, is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He spent the vast majority of his professional career in Spain, with Compostela.
Career
Born in Benin City, ...
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Mutiu Adepoju
Mutiu Adepoju (born 22 December 1970) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder.
He spent most of his career in Spain, amassing La Liga totals of 175 games and 22 goals over the course of seven se ...
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Steve Snow
;2 goals
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Ricardo França
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Wilson Muñoz
Wilson Muñoz Brenes (born 5 February 1975) is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Muñoz started his career with Costa Rican side Alajuelense, forming a midfield partnership with Costa Rica internat ...
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Radoslav Látal
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Wali Kareem
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Jorge Couto
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Bakhva Tedeev
Bakhva Otarovich Tedeyev (russian: Бахва Отарович Тедеев, os, Тедеты Отары фырт Бахвæ) (born 18 September 1969, in Tskhinvali) is a retired Russian football player. He was the head coach of FC Alania Vladi ...
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Sergei Kiriakov
Sergei Vyacheslavovich Kiriakov (russian: Серге́й Вячеславович Кирьяков; born 1 January 1970) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast.
Career
Kiriakov ...
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Antonio Pinilla
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Abdul Latif Helou
Abdul Latif Helou ( ar, عبد اللطيف الحلو) is a Syrian football midfielder who played for Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهو� ...
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Troy Dayak
;1 goal
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Diego Simeone
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In his cl ...
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Humberto Biazotti
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Martín Ubaldi
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Cássio
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Leonardo Araújo
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Diego Osorio
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Danilo Brenes
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Rónald González Brenes
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Henri Fuchs
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Stephan Prausse
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Uwe Jahnig
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Laith Hussein
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Naeem Saddam
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Karim Saddam Menshid (born 26 May 1960) is an Iraqi football forward who played for Iraq ...
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Radhi Shenaishil
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Christopher Nwosu
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Nduka Ugbade
Nduka Ugbade (born 6 September 1969) is the head coach of the Nigeria under-17 national football team and a former football player.
Player
As a youth player, fresh from St. Finbarrs College Akoka-Lagos, Ugbade was captain of the Nigeria U-16 m ...
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Samuel Elijah
Samuel Elijah (born 14 November 1969), popularly known as Samuel "Prophet" Elijah is a retired Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder. He was a member of the Nigeria U-20 team that competed at the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship.
...
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Bjørn Johansen
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Lars Bohinen
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As a player, he was a midfielder from 1986 until 2005, notably playing in the Premier League for Nottingham Forest, Blackburn Rovers an ...
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Oystein Drillestad
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Oyvind Mellemstrand
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Kante Nfaly
Kante may refer to:
* Kante (surname), a surname of African origin
** N'Golo Kanté (born 1991), French footballer who plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad
* Kante, Nepal
* Kante, Tajikistan
See also
* Kanté, a surname
* ''Kaante
''K ...
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Abel Silva
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Joao Manuel Vieira Pinto
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Jorge Amaral Rodrigues
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Paulo Alves
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Hamad Al Debaikhi
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Khaled Al Harbi
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Khalid Al Rowaihi
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Saadoun Al Suraiti
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Andrei Timoshenko
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Oleg Matveev
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David Villabona
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Moisés García León
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Mohammad Afash
Mohammad Nasser Afash ( ar, محمد عفش; born 31 October 1966) is a Syrian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Afash is one of the most notable Syrian football exports. Beginning his career with Al-Ittihad, he moved to G ...
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Yasser Sibai
Yasser Sibai ( ar, ياسر السباعي; born 6 February 1972) is a Syrian football defender who played for Syria in the 1996 Asian Cup.
Achievements
As a manager, Sibai won the double ( Syrian League and Syrian Cup) with Al-Ittihad Al-Itt ...
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Chris Henderson
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Dario Brose
Final ranking
Notes
External links
FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia 1989, FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)
an
(Part 4)
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