Panamerican Games 1995 (Mar del Plata, Mar 10-24)

Qualifying Tournament

North American Zone
Mexico and USA qualified automatically

 2-12-94 Bermuda      0-0 Canada         [at Kingston, Jamaica]
 4-12-94 Bermuda      2-0 Canada         [at Kingston, Jamaica]
           [Raynel Lightbourne 53, Kevin Jennings 76]

Bermuda advanced to a playoff


Caribbean Zone

The Caribbean Zone final round was to be a 4-team group: Jamaica (host), Trinidad & Tobago (top seed), Martinique and Guadeloupe, but
it seems that both Martinique and Guadeloupe withdrew.  Martinique had earlier beaten Cuba (or perhaps Cuba withdrew).

 2-12-94 Jamaica      2-4 Trinidad/Tob.  [at Kingston]
           [Wesley Webb 30, 74, Jerren Nixon 56, Marvin Andrews 77; Millon Griffith 5, Christopher Dawes 17]
 4-12-94 Jamaica      2-1 Trinidad/Tob.  [at Kingston]
           [Nathaniel Barnes 36, n.n. 61og; Kevin Jennings 76]

Trinidad & Tobago qualified
Jamaica advanced to a playoff


Playoff
 6-12-94 Jamaica      1-1 Bermuda        [at Kingston]
           [Fabien Davis 36pen; Nakia Smith 42]
 8-12-94 Bermuda      1-0 Jamaica        [AET][at Kingston]
           [Raynel Lightbourne 119]

Bermuda qualified

NB: On Dec. 16 seven Bermuda players were arrested in Miami en route back to Bermuda for carrying marijuana.


Central American Zone

 7-12-94 Costa Rica   2-1 El Salvador    [at San José]
           [Rolando Fonseca 23, Alejandro Sequeira 80; Ronald Cerritos 8]
 7-12-94 Honduras     2-0 Guatemala      [at Tegucigalpa]
           [Ramón Romero 13, Carlos Pavón 87]
16-12-94 Guatemala    2-0 Costa Rica     [at Cd de Guatemala]
           [César Trujillo 21, Carlos Lemus 37]
16-12-94 El Salvador  1-1 Honduras       [at San Salvador]
           [Marco Antonio Portillo 81; Carlos Pavón 79]
21-12-94 Costa Rica   0-0 Honduras       [at San José]
21-12-94 El Salvador  1-0 Guatemala      [at San Salvador]
           [Julio Santos Navarrete]
30-12-94 El Salvador  1-3 Costa Rica     [at San Salvador]
           [Ronald Cerritos 76pen; Jafet Soto 18, Ronald Gómez 86, 89pen]
30-12-94 Guatemala    0-0 Honduras       [at Cd de Guatemala]
 8- 1-95 Honduras     4-0 El Salvador    [at Tegucigalpa]
           [Carlos Pavón 45, Edgar Sierra 59, Oscar Lagos 67, Miguel Ángel Mariano 88]
 8- 1-95 Costa Rica   2-2 Guatemala      [at Alajuela]
           [Jafet Soto 9pen, 20; César Trujillo 12, Walter Cifuentes 69]
15- 1-95 Honduras     0-2 Costa Rica     [at Tegucigalpa]
           [Max Sánchez 43, Alejandro Sequeira 65]
15- 1-95 Guatemala    3-0 El Salvador    [at Cd de Guatemala]
           [César Trujillo 47, 54, Luis Pérez 2t; Ricardo Colorado 66]

 1.COSTA RICA   6  3  2  1  9- 6  11  [qualified]
 2.HONDURAS     6  2  3  1  7- 3   9  [qualified]
 3.Guatemala    6  2  2  2  7- 5   8
 4.El Salvador  6  1  1  4  4-13   4


South American Zone
Argentina qualified as host

 2-12-94 Venezuela    1-3 Colombia       [at Puerto Ordaz]
           [Ruberth Morán 90; Hamilton Ricard 51, Alonso Alcibar 78, Iván Valencia 90+1]
16-12-94 Colombia     3-0 Venezuela      [at Arménia]
           [Oswaldo McKenzie 16pen, Hamilton Ricard 33, Alonso Alcibar 36]

Colombia qualified

 8- 1-95 Ecuador      w/o Peru

Ecuador qualified

 8- 1-95 Uruguay      0-0 Paraguay       [at Montevideo]
15- 1-95 Paraguay     3-1 Uruguay        [at Asunción]
           [Francisco Esteche 11, Richart Báez 33, Juan Carlos Franco 88; Osvaldo Canobbio 22]

Brazil qualified without playing any matches; Chile also qualified,
possibly by eliminating Bolivia (or Bolivia did not enter and both
Brazil and Chile had byes).


Final Tournament


Group A (Mar del Plata)

12- 3-95 Paraguay    2-0 Honduras             
           [David Gómez 75, 88]
12- 3-95 Argentina   3-0 USA                  
           [Marcelo Gallardo 31pen, 44pen, Ariel Ortega 47]
14- 3-95 USA         0-2 Paraguay             
           [David Gómez 72, Carlos González 82]
14- 3-95 Argentina   2-2 Honduras             
           [Marcelo Gallardo 33pen, 70pen; Ramón Romero 14, Arnold Cruz 36]
16- 3-95 USA         0-4 Honduras
           [Luis Perdomo 17pen, Amado Guevara 29, Carlos Pavón 36, 84pen]
16- 3-95 Argentina   1-0 Paraguay
           [Ariel Ortega 66]

 1.ARGENTINA     3  2  1  0   6- 2   7
 2.PARAGUAY      3  2  0  1   4- 1   6
 3.HONDURAS      3  1  1  1   6- 4   4
 4.USA           3  0  0  3   0- 9   0

Group B (Tandil)

10- 3-95 Brazil      2-1 Costa Rica           
           [Ronaldo 17, Silvinho 35; Ronald Gómez 67]
10- 3-95 Chile       1-0 Bermuda              
           [Claudio Lizama 30]
13- 3-95 Brazil      2-0 Bermuda              
           [Anderson 21, Sandro 46]
13- 3-95 Costa Rica  4-1 Chile                
           [Sergio Morales 16, 80, Ronald Gómez 68, Mauricio Solís 90; Frank Lobos 37]
15- 3-95 Costa Rica  5-0 Bermuda
           [Luis Delgado 10pen, Sergio Morales 48, 67, Ronald Gómez 82, 85]
15- 3-95 Brazil      1-1 Chile
           [Silvinho 55; Frank Lobos 65]

 1.BRAZIL        3  2  1  0   5- 2   7
 2.COSTA RICA    3  2  0  1  10- 3   6}
 3.CHILE         3  1  1  1   3- 5   4
 4.Bermuda       3  0  0  3   0- 8   0

Group C (Necochea)

10- 3-95 Mexico      4-2 Ecuador              
           [Cuauhtémoc Blanco 7, 28, Luis Hernández 32pen, Luis Miguel Salvador 89; 
            Alberto Capurro 16, Carlos Gruezo 22]
10- 3-95 Colombia    2-0 Trinidad and Tobago  
           [Arley Dinas 17, Hamilton Ricard 25]
13- 3-95 Mexico      1-0 Trinidad and Tobago  
           [Kevin Jeffrey 87og]
13- 3-95 Colombia    5-0 Ecuador              
           [Henry Zambrano 1, Luis Quiñones 30, Hamilton Ricard 40, Oswaldo Mackenzie 69pen, 
            Marcos Ayoví 89og]
15- 3-95 Ecuador     4-1 Trinidad and Tobago
           [Alberto Capurro 5, Johny Pérez 36, Carlos Gruezo 70, 90; Gary Glasgow 66]
15- 3-95 Mexico      3-0 Colombia
           [Gustavo Nápoles 55, Luis Hernández 70, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 81]

 1.MEXICO        3  3  0  0   8- 2   9
 2.COLOMBIA      3  2  0  1   7- 3   6
 3.Ecuador       3  1  0  2   6-10   3
 4.Trinidad/Tob. 3  0  0  3   1- 7   0

Final phase (Mar del Plata)

Quarterfinals

18- 3-95 Brazil      0-0 Honduras (aet; 7-8pen)
18- 3-95 Argentina   1-0 Chile
           [Pablo Paz 67]
19- 3-95 Colombia    2-0 Paraguay
           [Jersson González 51, Osvaldo Peralta 78og]
19- 3-95 Mexico      3-2 Costa Rica
           [Rafael García 8, 55, Luis Miguel Salvador 61; Jafet Soto 27, Bernard Mullins 82]

Semifinals

21- 3-95 Argentina   3-2 Honduras
           [Marcelo Gallardo 40, 51pen, Roberto Ayala 82; Ramón Romero 17, Arnold Cruz 76pen]
22- 3-95 Mexico      2-1 Colombia
           [Luis Miguel Salvador 51, 78; Hamilton Ricard 33]

Third place match

24- 3-95 Colombia    3-0 Honduras
           [Martín Zapata 14, Luis Quiñones 24, Henry Zambrano 90]

Final

24- 3-95 Argentina   0-0 Mexico (aet; 5-4pen)

Topscorer: Marcelo Gallardo (Argentina) 6 goals (of which 5 penalties)


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