2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship
FIFA U-17 World Championship Trinidad & Tobago 2001 | |
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![]() Trinidad & Tobago 2001 official logo | |
Tournament details | |
Host country | Trinidad and Tobago |
Dates | 13 – 30 September |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 102 (3.19 per match) |
Attendance | 331,198 (10,350 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
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Best player |
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The FIFA U-17 World Championship 2001, the ninth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Port of Spain, Malabar, Marabella, Couva, and Bacolet in Trinidad and Tobago between 13 and 30 September 2001. Players born after 1 January 1984 could participate in this tournament. Although France had only appeared once before at the FIFA U-17 World Championship, in Canada back in 1987 when they finished sixth, the current crop of French youngsters arrived in the Caribbean determined to emulate their illustrious elders' winning ways at France '98 and Euro 2000. And so it was, Jean-François Jodar's side showing maturity beyond their years. Aggressive in the tackle and tactically very organised, they oscillated between a 3-5-2 and 3-6-1 and were able to rely on two extremely gifted individuals from Le Havre: Anthony Le Tallec and Florent Sinama-Pongolle, who won both the top scorer, with 9 goals scored, and Player of the Tournament awards. The young "Blues" won five of their six games, losing to Nigeria in the first round but getting their revenge in the Final. They hit five in a game on two occasions, against the USA (5-3) and Japan (5-1) in group matches, before brushing past two footballing giants, Brazil and Argentina (2-1 in both games) at the knockout stage and overcoming Nigeria 3-0 in the final to win their first ever FIFA U-17 World title.
Venues
Port of Spain | Bacolet | Couva |
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Hasely Crawford Stadium Capacity: 27,000 |
Dwight Yorke Stadium Capacity: 7,500 |
Ato Boldon Stadium Capacity: 10,000 |
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Malabar | Marabella | |
Larry Gomes Stadium Capacity: 10,000 |
Manny Ramjohn Stadium Capacity: 10,000 | |
Mascot
The official mascot of this FIFA U-17 World Championship, Trinidad & Tobago 2001, was BEATS, the humming bird. Its outfit is the same as the home national team, red shirt, black short and red socks. It has Trinidad & Tobago 2001 on the chest.
Squads
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the tournament:
Group stages
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 0 |
13 September 2001 13:00 |
Trinidad and Tobago ![]() |
1 – 2 | ![]() |
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Blackman ![]() |
Report | Kranjčar ![]() |
19 September 2001 17:00 |
Brazil ![]() |
6 – 1 | ![]() |
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Malzoni ![]() Caetano ![]() James ![]() Júnior ![]() |
Report | Forbes ![]() |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 0 |
16 September 2001 16:00 |
Japan ![]() |
0 – 4 | ![]() |
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Report | Shaibu ![]() Opabunmi ![]() Brown ![]() Temile ![]() |
16 September 2001 18:30 |
United States ![]() |
3 – 5 | ![]() |
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Magee ![]() Colombo ![]() Johnson ![]() |
Report | Sinama Pongolle ![]() Pietre ![]() Meghni ![]() |
19 September 2001 19:30 |
Japan ![]() |
1 – 5 | ![]() |
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Yano ![]() |
Report | Piètre ![]() Sinama Pongolle ![]() Drouin ![]() |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 1 |
15 September 2001 18:30 |
Argentina ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
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Correa ![]() López ![]() |
Report | Sanou ![]() Conombo ![]() |
20 September 2001 19:30 |
Spain ![]() |
2 – 4 | ![]() |
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Bauzà ![]() Senel ![]() |
Report | Colace ![]() López ![]() Zabaleta ![]() Aguirre ![]() |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 6 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 0 |
20 September 2001 19:30 |
Paraguay ![]() |
3 – 2 | ![]() |
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Pérez Matto ![]() Jara ![]() |
Report | Ahmadzadeh ![]() |
Knockout stages
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
23 September - Port of Spain | ||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||
27 September - Port of Spain | ||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||
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24 September - Marabella | ||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||
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2 | |||||||||
30 September - Port of Spain | ||||||||||
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3 | |||||||||
23 September - Port of Spain | ||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||
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5 | |||||||||
27 September - Malabar | ||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||
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1 | Third place | ||||||||
24 September - Marabella | ||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||
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2 | ![]() |
2 | |||||||
30 September - Port of Spain | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
23 September 2001 19:30 |
Nigeria ![]() |
5 – 1 | ![]() |
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Opabunmi ![]() Mohammed ![]() Temile ![]() |
Report | Engele ![]() |
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Winners
2001 FIFA U-17 World Champions |
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Awards
FIFA Golden Shoe: | FIFA Golden Ball: | FIFA Fair Play Award: |
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Goalscorers
Florent Sinama-Pongolle of France won the Golden Shoe award for scoring nine goals. In total, 102 goals were scored by 59 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
- 9 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
Maxi López
Anthony Danze
Wilfried Sanou
Armando Alonso
Anthony Le Tallec
Samuel Piètre
Karimu Shaibu
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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- Own goal
Julio Colombo (playing against United States)
Julius James (playing against Brazil)
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 15 | |
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 15 | |
3 | ![]() |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 11 | |
4 | ![]() |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 10 | |
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 9 | |
6 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | |
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | |
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
Eliminated at the group stage | ||||||||||
9 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | –1 | 6 | |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 3 | |
11 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | –5 | 3 | |
12 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 3 | |
13 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –8 | 1 | |
14 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 0 | |
15 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | –5 | 0 | |
16 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 |
External links
- FIFA U-17 World Championship Trinidad and Tobago 2001, FIFA.com
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)