Millennium Super Soccer Cup - India 2001

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)


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