10th to 25th January, 2001
India - Calcutta, Kochin, Goa with the Semi-finals and Final
being held in Calcutta.
Tournament officially renamed 'Sahara Cup' on January 8, 2001 to satisfy sponsors.
NB: apparently only Bangladesh sent a complete first team squad.
Group 1 (Kochin, Nehru Stadium)
12- 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 Bangladesh 19.30
[Almedin Hota 55, 60]
14- 1 Yugoslavia 1-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina 17.30
[Dusan Petkovic 87; Mirsad Beslija 75]
16- 1 Bangladesh 1-4 Yugoslavia 19.00
[Firoz Mohamed Hussain 5; Sasa Ilic 17, 34, Vuk Rasovic 80,
Goran Trobok 89]
1.Yugoslavia 2 1 1 0 5- 2 4 Qualified
2.Bosnia-Hercegovina 2 1 1 0 3- 1 4 Qualified
3.Bangladesh 2 0 0 2 1- 6 0
-.Iraq - withdrew on January 8 without citing reasons
Group 2 (Kochin, Nehru Stadium)
11- 1 Uruguay B 2-1 Iceland 17.30
[Alexandro Umpiérrez 26, Ricardo Varela 30; Thorhallur Hinriksson 32]
13- 1 India 0-3 Iceland 17.00
[Tryggvi Gudmundson 44, 52, 70]
15- 1 India 0-3 Uruguay B 17.30
[Juan Segalés 38, Ricardo Varela 58, Wilson Martirena 74]
1.Uruguay B 2 2 0 0 5- 1 6 Qualified
2.Iceland 2 1 0 1 4- 2 3 Qualified
3.India 2 0 0 2 0- 6 0
-.Indonesia - withdrew on January 10
NB: Indonesia had agreed with the tournament organisers to be represented
by a club team, Harimau Tapanuli ("Hartap") from Northern Sumatra, as
the national team could not participate due to the simultaneous start
of the domestic league season.
The club side in question had 6 foreign players, viz. Douglas Edward
Ithier, Johny Ernesto Mirco, Cory James Hugo, Troy Albert Bernard
(all from Australia), Kowit Foythong and Tassapon Inkaew (both from
Thailand), and this had been communicated well in advance to the
tournament organisers.
However, upon arrival the Indian federation (AIFF) suddenly insisted
that Indonesia should play with Indonesian nationals only (in spite of
the fact that Uzbekistan reportedly have a foreigner in the squad as
well), leaving the club side with just 11 men.
As it was impossible for the Indonesians to fly in replacements within
the 24 hours deadline set by the AIFF, the club withdrew. In Indonesia
the reason behind the shabby behaviour is suspected to be the fear of
an ignominous loss of the organisers against a mere Indonesian club side.
The Indonesian FA have lodged a complaint with the AFC.
Group 3 (Goa, Fatorda Stadium)
11- 1 Romania XI 0-1 Jordan 15.45
[Faisal Suleiman 88]
14- 1 Romania XI 4-2 Hongkong 15.30
[Liviu Zahariu 5, Marius Sasu 25, Lucian Sanmantean 59, Ioan Luca 61;
Kwok Yue-Hung 23, 44]
16- 1 Hongkong 0-2 Jordan 17.00
[Badran Al-Shaqran 49, Haitham al-Shboul 84]
1.Jordan 2 2 0 0 3- 0 6 Qualified
2.Romania XI 2 1 0 1 4- 3 3 Qualified
3.Hongkong 2 0 0 2 2- 6 0
-.Cameroon - withdrew on January 10 without citing reasons
Group 4 (Calcutta, Saltlake Stadium)
10- 1 Uzbekistan 0-2 Japan XI 15.00
[Ota Keisuke 45, Satochi Horinouchi 88]
12- 1 Uzbekistan 5-0 Bahrain 15.30
[Bahadir Annamatov 15, 66, Aleksey Zhdanov 26, Oibek Usmankhodjaev 52, 89]
13- 1 Chile 1-0 Japan XI 19.00
[Héctor Tapia 34]
15- 1 Chile 2-0 Bahrain 15.00
[Héctor Tapia 28, Fernando Martel 81]
17- 1 Chile 2-0 Uzbekistan 17.00
[Marco Villaseca 40, Sebastián González 85]
17- 1 Bahrain 0-2 Japan XI 19.00
[Ota Keisuke 40, Hideki Sekine 90]
1.Chile 3 3 0 0 5- 0 9 Qualified
2.Japan XI 3 2 0 1 4- 1 6 Qualified
3.Uzbekistan 3 1 0 2 5- 4 3
4.Bahrain 3 0 0 3 0- 9 0
NB: Japan apparently play with their University team.
Quarterfinals
18- 1 Uruguay B 2-3 Bosnia-Hercegovina 19.00 (Kochin) [asdet]
[Daniel Pereira 12, Juan Segalés 59; Zehrudin Kavazovic 40,
Dzelaludin Muharemovic 83, Mirsad Beslija 97]
20- 1 Yugoslavia 2-0 Romania XI 16.30 (Goa)
[Sasa Ilic 30, Igor Bogdanovic 45]
20- 1 Chile 2-0 Iceland 18.30 (Calcutta)
[Sebastián González 37, 50]
21- 1 Jordan 0-4 Japan XI 17.00 (Calcutta)
[Yoshimasa Fujita 30, Ota Keisuke 54, Keiji Yoshimura 68, Hideki Sekine 67]
Semifinals
22- 1 Bosnia-Hercegovina 1-0 Chile 17.00 (Calcutta)
[Dzelaludin Muharemovic 75]
23- 1 Yugoslavia 1-0 Japan XI 17.00 (Calcutta)
[Igor Duljaj 5]
NB: according to the original schedule Bosnia should have played Yugoslavia and
Chile Japan in the semifinals; presumably this was changed because both
pairings had already occurred in the group stage.
Third Place Match
25- 1 Chile n/p Japan XI 15.00 (Calcutta)
NB: third place match cancelled by the AIFF on December 23; originally
it was reported that the reason was that AIFF didn't have the
USD 50,000 set aside for the third place finishers; later it
appeared Chile had withdrawn.
Final
25- 1 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0-2 Yugoslavia 17.00 (Calcutta)
[Igor Duljaj 7, Igor Bogdanovic 45]
[Yugoslavia: Zarko Lucic (Vojin Prole), Vuk Rasovic, Igor Duljaj,
Ivan Ilic, Goran Trobok, Vladimir Ivic (Dejan Osmanovic), Dusan Petkovic,
Boris Vaskovic, Jovan Tanasijevic, Igor Bogdanovic, Dragoljub Jeremic
Bosnia-Hercegovina: Adnan Guso, Omer Joldic, Sasa Papac (Senad Zeric),
Munever Rizvic, Dalibor Nedic, Asmir Ikanovic, Zehrudin Kavazovic
(Milan Ozren), Almedin Hota, Dzelaludin Muharemovic, Admir Adzem,
Sead Seferovic
ref: Rungkly Mangkol (Thailand)]
NB: Yugoslavia to recieve USD 150,000, Bosnia-Hercegovina USD 100,000;
all other teams USD 60,000.
Countries which first confirmed participation but later withdrew:
Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa,
New Zealand (on advice from the AFC - replaced by Bosnia-Hercegovina)
Source for Indonesian withdrawal background: Senayan
Prepared and maintained by Francisco Fernández and Andre Zlotkowski for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Authors:
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Andre Zlotkowski
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Last updated: 26 Jan 2001
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