2011 U-20 World Cup

draw is out

Group A (Bogota/Cali)
Colombia
France
Mali
Korea Republic

Group B (Cali/Bogota)
Portugal
Uruguay
Cameroon
CHOICE CUZ

Group C (Manizales/Pereira)
Australia
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Spain

Group D (Armenia/Pereira)
Croatia
Saudi Arabia
Nigeria
Guatemala

Group E (Barranquilla/Cartagena)
Brazil
Egypt
Austria
Panama

Group F (Medellin/Cartagena)
Argentina
Mexico
England
Korea DPR

Egypt all the way!

Our team is supposedly better than when we hosted the tournament in 2009. We have a better coach and our players are more experienced. It should be interesting to see how our team does without 80,000+ fans behind them.

Also, I can't believe the defending champions didn't qualify!

We will win.

Roloman4 wrote:We will win.

you guys are goin down!

Ecuador are a really good side. They should qualify out of that group with Spain.

will neymar be called up???

Highly unlikely. He'll be in the Copa America squad. The only reason he was called up for the Qualifying tournament was to ensure that Brazil qualified for the Olympics.

Rei wrote:Highly unlikely. He'll be in the Copa America squad. The only reason he was called up for the Qualifying tournament was to ensure that Brazil qualified for the Olympics.

anyway who are the players we are meant to be looking at? the stars of the future

Ohh so exciting the Oceania final is today!!! New Zealand v Soloman Islands should be a good one. Got to love some of the early qualifying results Cuba beat the British Virgin Island 29-0

Weather130 wrote:Ohh so exciting the Oceania final is today!!! New Zealand v Soloman Islands should be a good one. Got to love some of the early qualifying results Cuba beat the British Virgin Island 29-0

what time?????

U20 qualifying is the same as the Olympic Qualifying?

NZG wrote:

Weather130 wrote:Ohh so exciting the Oceania final is today!!! New Zealand v Soloman Islands should be a good one. Got to love some of the early qualifying results Cuba beat the British Virgin Island 29-0

what time?????

Oh crap it was at 15:30 and is over New Zealand won 3-1

NZG wrote:

Rei wrote:Highly unlikely. He'll be in the Copa America squad. The only reason he was called up for the Qualifying tournament was to ensure that Brazil qualified for the Olympics.

anyway who are the players we are meant to be looking at? the stars of the future

From those I know.

Colombia: Edwin Cardona (CAM), Manga (ST, that's his nickname, I don't remember his real name ), Caicedo (ST), Arias (RB).
France: Lacazette (ST/RF), Griezmann(LWM), Kakuta, Fofana (CM), Bakambu (ST)
Spain: Usual suspects: Thiago, Koke (RWM), Bartra (CB), I guess the some people would add Pacheco but he didn't impress me TBH.
Uruguay: Polenta (LB), Adrian Luna (RWM)
Brazil: Casemiro (CDM), Willian Jose (ST), Danilo (RB/CM),
Argentina: Mosca (CM), Zuculini (CM), Iturbe (CF)
Ecuador: Quinonez (CB), Caicedo (ST0, Montano (ST), another guy whose names with C who I can't recall. Jaramillo (Gk)

This is working off the last squads and guessing who will and will not be called up. For example Lucas will probably not be called up for Brazil. He is already too important to Sao Paulo.

Damn the British Virgin Islands lost all of their qualifying games with a -68 goal difference while scoring 0 goals.

Rei wrote:

NZG wrote:

Rei wrote:Highly unlikely. He'll be in the Copa America squad. The only reason he was called up for the Qualifying tournament was to ensure that Brazil qualified for the Olympics.

anyway who are the players we are meant to be looking at? the stars of the future

From those I know.

Colombia: Edwin Cardona (CAM), Manga (ST, that's his nickname, I don't remember his real name ), Caicedo (ST), Arias (RB).
France: Lacazette (ST/RF), Griezmann(LWM), Kakuta, Fofana (CM), Bakambu (ST)
Spain: Usual suspects: Thiago, Koke (RWM), Bartra (CB), I guess the some people would add Pacheco but he didn't impress me TBH.
Uruguay: Polenta (LB), Adrian Luna (RWM)
Brazil: Casemiro (CDM), Willian Jose (ST), Danilo (RB/CM),
Argentina: Mosca (CM), Zuculini (CM), Iturbe (CF)
Ecuador: Quinonez (CB), Caicedo (ST0, Montano (ST), another guy whose names with C who I can't recall. Jaramillo (Gk)

This is working off the last squads and guessing who will and will not be called up. For example Lucas will probably not be called up for Brazil. He is already too important to Sao Paulo.

alot of names. Thanks mate


New Zealand qualified.

the game started almost 3 hours ago.

New Zealand beat solomon islands 3-1

Vamos Colombiaaa!! we have to win this!!!!

we got a pretty good team, our best team for a long time we should do pretty well at least performance wise we shall see what happens result wise

Scuba Steve wrote:U20 qualifying is the same as the Olympic Qualifying?

It serves both purposes in South America. Top 4 go to the U20's (plus Colombia since this year since they're the hosts), but only top two go the Olympics.

Very, very interesting.

It sure is a bummer that the USA missed out on this, we have a great youth soccer program so I have no idea what actually happened here to cause us to miss out on this.

We lost when we needed to win.

the team panicked when things werent going well, but it was a hard place to play at to play infront of all those home fans though. but im sure the experienced helped them nonetheless

still is a pity as the world cup squad(had we qualified) would of been a lot different to the squad that failed to qualify

Don't think Agudelo would have gone though.

The u20's is probably the least important age group at international level.

By this time if you're not good enough for the u21's they just lump you into the u20's......

At least that's how England do it ...it's like a b/c team.

Poland's not in there.

Meh, whatev.

Lux wrote:The u20's is probably the least important age group at international level.

By this time if you're not good enough for the u21's they just lump you into the u20's......

At least that's how England do it ...it's like a b/c team.

because england are stupid, and you wonder why england can never get the hosting rights for any tournaments, fifa consider the u20 world cup as the second most prestigious international tournament in the world and most countries do as well. course its going to have ramifications if england send an amateur team like they did last time where almost the entire squad ended up in the conference and league 2

England will win.

I thought it was the U21 World Cup this summer