NB: for amateur players.
Played Mar. 1-13.
First Stage
Group 1
Estadio Artes y Oficios, Ciudad de Panamá.
2- 3 Panama 4-3 Nicaragua
[Gaspar Romero 13, Ignacio Torres 32, Guillermo Bounting 75, 78; Francisco Romero 31, Manuel Cuadra 65, 77]
Cuba 1-2 Colombia
[Luis Hernández 2; Carlos Samboni 14, Elkin Velasquez 44]
4- 3 Panama 3-4 Cuba
[Rodrigo Espinoza 43, 90, Eduardo Nimbley 80; Luis Hernández 26, José Verdecia 38, 82, 87]
5- 3 Colombia 7-2 Nicaragua
[Elkin Velásquez 2, Jairo Arboleda 7, Armando Torres 20, 57, José Roberto Garces 2t, 2t., Sergio Buitrago (og);
Francisco Romero 39, Oscar Torres 2t]
6- 3 Panama 0-3 Colombia
[Armando Torres 42, Elkin Velásquez 75, Víctor Campaz 77]
7- 3 Cuba 4-0 Nicaragua
[José Verdecia 10, 44, 87, Francisco Fariñas (pen)]
1.COLOMBIA 3 3 0 0 12- 3 6
2.CUBA 3 2 0 1 9- 5 4
3.Panama 3 1 0 2 7-10 2
4.Nicaragua 3 0 0 3 5-15 0
Group 2
Estadio Artes y Oficios, Ciudad de Panamá.
1- 3 Netherlands Antilles 1-0 Dominican Republic
[Wilbert Martijn 59pen]
Puerto Rico 3-0 Bahamas
2- 3 Bahamas 2-2 Dominican Republic
[Kenneth Love 85, Stephen Nicholls 88; Elvis Rojas 28, Epifanio López 49]
Venezuela 1-0 Puerto Rico
[Carlos Eduardo Gómez]
3- 3 Netherlands Antilles 3-0 Puerto Rico
[Mario Bislip 5, 74, Franklin Victoria 89]
4- 3 Netherlands Antilles 8-1 Bahamas
[Hubert Martina 8, 75, Melvyn Loefstok 38, Ronald Martis 42, 43, James Richardson 63, Elio Flores 66,
Wilbert Martijn 89; Samuel Haven 50]
Venezuela 5-1 Dominican Republic
[Iván García 31, 74, Carlos Eduardo Gómez 57, Antonio Marcano 66, 86; Elvis Rojas 70pen]
5- 3 Venezuela 5-0 Bahamas
[Iván García 18, 40, Antonio Marcano 34, Carlos Eduardo Gómez 68, Ricardo Pérez 80]
6- 3 Puerto Rico 0-5 Dominican Republic
7- 3 Netherlands Antilles 5-1 Venezuela
[Franklin Victoria (2), Erwin Melfor (2), Melvyn Loefstok; Antonio Marcano]
1.NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 4 4 0 0 17- 2 8
2.VENEZUELA 4 3 0 1 12- 6 6
3.Dominican Republic 4 1 1 2 8- 8 3
4.Puerto Rico 4 1 0 3 3- 9 2
5.Bahamas 4 0 1 3 3-18 1
Final Stage
Estadio Revolución, Ciudad de Panamá.
9- 3 Colombia awd Venezuela [originally 3-0; awarded 0-2]
Cuba 2-0 Netherlands Antilles
[José Verdecia 3, Francisco Fariñas 68]
11- 3 Venezuela 0-3 Netherlands Antilles
[Franklin Victoria 16, 42, Elio Flores 73]
Cuba awd Colombia [originally 0-1; awarded 2-0]
NB: Cuba protested against Colombian players Pedro Antonio Zape and Armando Torres for being professionals;
in fact, it was discovered that Zape indeed was, and on March 12 the "Tribunal de Honor de los XI Juegos
Centroamericanos y del Caribe" decided to award the match to Cuba 2-0.
13- 3 Cuba 5-0 Venezuela
[Jorge Masso 17, 20, José Verdecia 57, 80, Francisco Fariñas 72]
Netherlands Antilles awd Colombia [awarded 0-2]
NB: Apparently due to a misunderstanding (hour change), the Antilleans did not show up to play in the morning
but in the afternoon of March 13. Colombia was presented at the tomorrow but not in the afternoon as the
game was originally scheduled.
Curiously, the same referee who gave the victory to Colombia in the morning also gave a win to the
Netherlands Antilles in the afternoon.
Finally the "Tribunal de Honor" made a Solomonic decision, Colombia was awarded a 2-0 result in its
match against the Netherlands Antilles and with these results Cuba obtained the Gold medal, the Netherlands
Antilles the Silver medal on goal difference and Colombia the Bronze medal.
FINAL TABLE
1.CUBA 3 3 0 0 9- 2 6
2.Netherlands Antilles 3 1 0 2 3- 4 2
3.Colombia 3 1 0 2 2- 4 2
4.Venezuela 3 1 0 2 2- 8 2
NB: There are versions that affirm that Colombia was expelled from the tournament after the Cuban protest, but
they fall into contradictions because in the medal table Colombia was awarded the bronze medal.
Everything indicates that Colombia was not expelled, they only lost on the desk the games of the final phase
in which it used professional players against Cuba and Venezuela respectively with the score of 2-0, but won
the game against the Netherlands Antilles by forfeit with the score of 2-0.
Prepared and maintained by Barrie Courtney, Erik Francisco Lugo, Eduardo Mendoza, Neil Morrison, Pieter Veroeveren and Francisco Vrolijk for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Authors: Barrie Courtney, Erik Francisco Lugo, Eduardo Mendoza, Neil Morrison,
Pieter Veroeveren and Francisco Vrolijk
Last updated: 25 Nov 2021
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