Date: July 12-29.
Hosts: Colombia.
On June 28, two weeks before the start of the tournament, CSF decided to
take the hosting right away from Colombia following the kidnapping of
the vice-president of the Colombian FA (who was released within hours
after the decision to move the tournament was announced). Candidates
to hold the tournament instead were Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico.
On June 30, it was decided to hold the tournament in Colombia after all,
but postpone it by a year to 2002 (no specific date was settled).
On July 5 CSF announced that the tournament will go ahead as planned;
apparently under great pressure of TV companies.
Argentina decided to pull out having sent players and coaches on holiday,
but later announced they might reconsider; they announced their final
decision to pull out on July 10, one day before the start of the tournament.
Canada pulled out, not being able to collect their squad anymore, and
were replaced by Costa Rica on July 6. Argentina were replaced by
Honduras on July 10.
(CSF's preferred order of further replacements would have been: USA,
El Salvador, Japan and South Korea; inviting the geographically more
suitable countries of Surinam and Guyana (or even Panama) apparently
was never an option.)
Venues: Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Manizales, Arménia and Pereira.
Bucaramanga and Ibagué were not included.
Originally the competition was to include 16 teams (with as invited teams:
Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Spain, Mexico and USA), but in the end it
was decided to invite only 2 teams (Mexico and Canada) for a 12-team
competition. (Jamaica were also mentioned as invitees at times.)
Stadiums:
Arménia: Centenario - 29,000
Barranquilla: Metropolitano - 50,220
Bogotá: El Campín - 46,310
Cali: Pascual Guerrero - 45,600
Manizales Palogrande - 35,000
Medellín: Atanasio Girardot - 52,800
Pereira: Hernán Ramírez Villegas - 34,000
Group A (Barranquilla)
Jul 11 Ecuador 1-4 Chile
[Kléber Chalá 53; Christián Montecinos 74, 90, Reinaldo Navia 30,
Marcelo Corrales 85]
Jul 11 Colombia 2-0 Venezuela
[Freddy Grisales 16, Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 60pen]
Jul 14 Chile 1-0 Venezuela
[Christián Montecinos 79]
Jul 14 Colombia 1-0 Ecuador
[Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 30]
Jul 17 Ecuador 4-0 Venezuela
[Agustín Delgado 19, 63, Ángel Fernández 29, Edison Méndez 60]
Jul 17 Colombia 2-0 Chile
[Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 10pen, Eulalio Arriaga 90]
1.COLOMBIA 3 3 0 0 5- 0 9
2.CHILE 3 2 0 1 5- 3 6
3.Ecuador 3 1 0 2 5- 5 3
4.Venezuela 3 0 0 3 0- 7 0
Group B (Cali)
Jul 12 Peru 3-3 Paraguay
[Abel Lobatón 17, Juan Pajuelo 58, Jose Del Solar 78;
Virgilio Ferreira 23, 65, Silvio Garay 90]
Jul 12 Brazil 0-1 Mexico
[Jared Borgetti 5]
Jul 15 Paraguay 0-0 Mexico
Jul 15 Brazil 2-0 Peru
[Guilherme 10, Denílson 86]
Jul 18 Peru 1-0 Mexico
[Roberto Holsen 48]
Jul 18 Brazil 3-1 Paraguay
[Alex 60, Belletti 90, Denílson 90; Guido Alvarenga 11pen]
1.BRAZIL 3 2 0 1 5- 2 6
2.MEXICO 3 1 1 1 1- 1 4
3.PERU 3 1 1 1 4- 5 4
4.Paraguay 3 0 2 1 4- 6 2
Group C (Medellín)
Jul 13 Bolivia 0-1 Uruguay
[Javier Chevantón 64]
Jul 13 Honduras 0-1 Costa Rica
[Paulo Wanchope 63]
Jul 16 Uruguay 1-1 Costa Rica
[Carlos Morales 53; Paulo Wanchope 28]
Jul 16 Honduras 2-0 Bolivia
[Amado Guevara 54, 69]
Jul 19 Bolivia 0-4 Costa Rica
[Paulo Wanchope 45, 70, Steven Bryce 62, Rolando Fonseca 83]
Jul 19 Honduras 1-0 Uruguay
[Amado Guevara 81]
1.COSTA RICA 3 2 1 0 6- 1 7 [replace Canada]
2.HONDURAS 3 2 0 1 3- 1 6 [replace Argentina]
3.URUGUAY 3 1 1 1 2- 2 4
4.Bolivia 3 0 0 3 0- 7 0
Quarterfinals
[Pereira]
Jul 22 Chile 0-2 Mexico
[Jesús Arellano 18, Daniel Osorno 80]
[Arménia]
Jul 22 Costa Rica 1-2 Uruguay
[Paulo Wanchope 51; Rodrigo Lemos 61pen, Pablo Lima 87]
[Arménia]
Jul 23 Colombia 3-0 Peru
[Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 50, 69, Geovanny Hernández 66]
[Manizales]
Jul 23 Brazil 0-2 Honduras
[Belletti 57og, Saúl Martínez 90]
Semifinals
[Pereira]
Jul 25 Mexico 2-1 Uruguay
[Jared Borgetti 13, Alberto García Aspe 66pen; Richard Morales 32]
[Manizales]
Jul 26 Colombia 2-0 Honduras
[Gerardo Bedoya 6, Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 63]
Third Place Match [Bogotá]
Jul 29 Uruguay 2-2 Honduras [4-5 pen]
[Joe Bizera 21, Andrés Martínez 45; Saúl Martínez 14,
Junior Izaguirre 41]
Final [Bogotá, Estadio El Campín; ref: Ubaldo Aquino (PAR)]
Jul 29 Colombia 1-0 Mexico
[Iván Córdoba 65]
[COL: Oscar Córdoba, Iván López, Iván Córdoba, Mario Yepes,
Gerardo Bedoya, Juan Carlos Ramírez, Fabián Vargas,
Freddy Grisales, Geovanni Hernández (Mauricio Molina 87),
Víctor Aristizábal (Jairo Castillo 31), Elkin Murillo.
Coach: Francisco Maturana.
MEX: Oscar Pérez, Octavio Váldez, Alberto Rodríguez (Miguel Zepeda 74),
Ramón Heriberto Morales, Juan Rodríguez, Ramón Carlos Morales,
Sigifredo Mercado, Johan Rodríguez (Diego Osorno 67),
Gerardo Torrado, Jesus Arellano (Césareo Victorino 53),
Jared Borgetti. Coach: Javier Aguirre.]
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Author: Miguel Alvim Gonzalez
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Last updated: 30 Jul 2001
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