Qualifying Tournament Central America
North American Qualifiers for the Panam Games 1979
National Stadium, Hamilton, Bermuda
1-Apr-1979 USA 2-1 Mexico
[Angelo DiBernardo 41, Guillermo Hernández 68og; Felipe Comparán 69]
[Note: Hernández own-goal also reported as George Nanchoff's goal]
1-Apr-1979 Bermuda 3-0 Canada (also a qualifier for the Olympic Games 1980)
[Andre Amory 6, Ralph Bean 12, 87]
5-Apr-1979 USA 0-0 Canada
5-Apr-1979 Bermuda 2-2 Mexico
[Joseph Trott 25, Melvin Bean 87; Armando Romero 7, Jorge Haro 62]
8-Apr-1979 Bermuda 1-0 USA
[Ellsworth Lambert 77]
8-Apr-1979 Canada 3-2 Mexico
[Gerry Gray 40, 58, Branko Segota 83; Carlos Bracamontes 28, Jorge Morales 57]
1.BERMUDA 3 2 1 0 6- 2 5
2.USA 3 1 1 1 2- 2 3
3.Canada 3 1 1 1 3- 5 3
4.Mexico 3 0 1 2 5- 7 1
NB: Bermuda and USA qualified.
Caribbean Qualifiers
Estadio Pedro Marrero, La Habana
15-Apr-79 Cuba 4-0 Dutch Antilles
[Jorge Masso 43, 52, Harison Conquet 82og, Dagoberto Lara 89]
17-Apr-79 Dominican Rep. 3-2 Dutch Antilles
20-Apr-79 Cuba 1-0 Dominican Rep.
[Ramón Núñez 2]
1.CUBA 2 2 0 0 5- 0 4
2.DOMINICAN REP. 2 1 0 1 3- 3 2
3.Dutch Antilles 2 0 0 2 2- 7 0
Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago withdrew.
Cuba and Dominican Republic qualified.
Final Tournament
July 2 to 14.
First Round
Group A
2-Jul-79 Argentina 2-0 Bermuda
[Víctor Sosa 12, 20pen]
4-Jul-79 Costa Rica 3-1 Bermuda
[Carlos Solano 3, José Manuel Rojas 55, 87; Stephan Riley 66]
6-Jul-79 Argentina 1-0 Costa Rica
[Marcelo Fredes 40]
1.ARGENTINA 2 2 0 0 3- 0 4
2.COSTA RICA 2 1 0 1 3- 2 2
3.Bermuda 2 0 0 2 1- 5 0
Group B
2-Jul-79 Brazil 2-0 Guatemala
{Silva 14, Mica 71]
4-Jul-79 Cuba 2-2 Guatemala
[Andrés Roldan 46, Roberto Pereira 81; Adán Paniagua 8, Jorge Escobar 87pen]
6-Jul-79 Brazil 1-0 Cuba
[Cristóvão 69]
1.BRAZIL 2 2 0 0 3- 0 4
2.CUBA 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1
3.Guatemala 2 0 1 1 2- 4 1
Group C
2-Jul-79 USA 6-0 Dominican Republic
[Donald Ebert 8, 29, 49, 60, Perry van der Beck 75, 78]
4-Jul-79 Puerto Rico 1-0 Dominican Republic
[Mayo Sánchez]
6-Jul-79 USA 3-1 Puerto Rico
[John Hayne, James Stamatis, Joe Morrone; Luis Alberto Correa]
1.USA 2 2 0 0 9- 1 4
2.PUERTO RICO 2 1 0 1 2- 3 2
3.Dominican Rep 2 0 0 2 0- 7 0
Second Round
Group A
8-Jul-79 Brazil 3-1 Costa Rica
[Silvinho 35, Edson 40, Jerson 44; José Manuel Rojas 48pen]
10-Jul-79 Brazil 5-0 Puerto Rico
[Silva 5, 60, Mica 21, Hickman 40, Jerson 65]
12-Jul-79 Costa Rica 4-0 Puerto Rico
[Jorge Ulate 30, Luis Solano 44, Rafael Camacho 56, Herberth Quesada 57]
1.BRAZIL 2 2 0 0 8- 1 4
2.Costa Rica 2 1 0 1 5- 3 2
3.Puerto Rico 2 0 0 2 0- 9 0
Group B
8-Jul-79 Cuba 0-0 Argentina
10-Jul-79 Argentina 4-0 USA
[Héctor Bocanelli 17, 28, Víctor Sosa 36, Enrique Veloso 38]
12-Jul-79 Cuba 5-0 USA
[Regino Delgado 20, Roberto Pereira 60, 85, 90, Jorge Maya 75]
1.CUBA 2 1 1 0 5- 0 3
2.Argentina 2 1 1 0 4- 0 3
3.USA 2 0 0 2 0- 9 0
Fifth Place Match
14-Jul-79 Puerto Rico w/o USA [USA left competition]
Third Place Match
14-Jul-79 Argentina 2-0 Costa Rica
[Salvador Mastrosimone 41, Nelson Bastos 59og]
Final
14-Jul-79 Brazil 3-0 Cuba
[Silva 3, Basilio 38, Gilcimar 80]
1979 (additional match details)
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