FIFA World Youth Championship Malaysia 1997

First stage

Japan - Costa Rica

6:2 (3:1)

Match	Date	Time	Venue / Stadium	Attendance
19	20 June 1997	17:30	Kuantan / Darul Makmur	9000

Match Officials

Referee Jose Luis DA ROSA (URU)	Assistant Referee 1 Claro PALOMO (PHI)
	Assistant Referee 2 Masoud ENAYAT (IRN)

Goals scored

Harutaka ONO (JPN) 3',
Shunsuke NAKAMURA (JPN) 7',
Harutaka ONO (JPN) 22',
Froylan LEDEZMA (CRC) 28',
Alonso SOLIS (CRC) 59',
Shinji JOJO (JPN) 78',
Kenji FUKUDA (JPN) 90'+3,
Yuichiro NAGAI (JPN) 90'+5

Japan

Line-up

[18]
Yuta MINAMI (GK)
[2]
Kai MIKURIYA (-65')
[4]
Kazuyuki TODA
[5]
Tsuneyasu MIYAMOTO (C)
[6]
Shinji JOJO
[7]
Tomokazu MYOJIN
[10]
Atsushi YANAGISAWA (-81')
[12]
Satoshi YAMAGUCHI
[13]
Harutaka ONO
[15]
Yuichiro NAGAI
[16]
Shunsuke NAKAMURA

Substitute(s)

[1]
Kiyomitsu KOBARI
[3]
Masaharu NISHI
[8]
Nozomi HIROYAMA (+65')
[9]
Kenji FUKUDA (+81')
[11]
Yoshiteru YAMASHITA
[14]
Masahiro KOGA
[17]
Michiyasu OSADA

Coach

Masakuni YAMAMOTO (JPN)

Costa Rica

Line-up

[1]
Fausto GONZALEZ (GK)
[3]
Daniel TORRES
[4]
Pablo NASSAR (C)
[5]
Leonardo DURAN (-39')
[6]
Eddie SALAS
[8]
Douglas SEQUEIRA
[10]
Froylan LEDEZMA
[12]
Alvin VILLAVICENCIO (-25')
[13]
Carlos CASTRO (-77')
[15]
Pablo CHINCHILLA
[16]
Steven BRYCE

Substitute(s)

[2]
Douglas BARQUERO
[7]
Nelson FONSECA (+39')
[9]
Alonso SOLIS (+25')
[11]
Marvin CHINCHILLA
[14]
Andrey CAMPOS
[17]
Jonathan BOLANOS (+77')
[18]
Rodolfo ALVAREZ

Coach

Luis SIBAJA (CRC)

Cautions

Atsushi YANAGISAWA (JPN) 16'
, Eddie SALAS (CRC) 21'
, Pablo CHINCHILLA (CRC) 55'
, Eddie SALAS (CRC) 71'
, Yuta MINAMI (JPN) 90'

Expulsions

Eddie SALAS (CRC) 71' 2YC

a.e.t.:	After extra time	(C):	Captain	PSO:	Penalty Shoot-out
GK:	Goalkeeper	N:	Not eligible to play	I:	Injured
Y:	Yellow cards	Pos:	Positions	A:	Absent
D:	Defender	M:	Midfielder	Min:	Minutes played
GF:	Goals for	GA:	Goals against	PK:	Penalty Kicks
FC:	Fouls Committed	FS:	Fouls Suffered	R:	Direct Expulsions
F:	Forward	SG/S:	Shots on Goal/Shots	Y: 2Y=R:	Yellow cards Expulsions due to Second Caution