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) | ||
- 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
Goals scored
Japan
- Yuta MINAMI (GK)
- Kai MIKURIYA (-65')
- Kazuyuki TODA
- Tsuneyasu MIYAMOTO (C)
- Shinji JOJO
- Tomokazu MYOJIN
- Atsushi YANAGISAWA (-81')
- Satoshi YAMAGUCHI
- Harutaka ONO
- Yuichiro NAGAI
- Shunsuke NAKAMURA
Line-up
- Kiyomitsu KOBARI
- Masaharu NISHI
- Nozomi HIROYAMA (+65')
- Kenji FUKUDA (+81')
- Yoshiteru YAMASHITA
- Masahiro KOGA
- Michiyasu OSADA
Substitute(s)
Coach
Masakuni YAMAMOTO (JPN)Costa Rica
- Fausto GONZALEZ (GK)
- Daniel TORRES
- Pablo NASSAR (C)
- Leonardo DURAN (-39')
- Eddie SALAS
- Douglas SEQUEIRA
- Froylan LEDEZMA
- Alvin VILLAVICENCIO (-25')
- Carlos CASTRO (-77')
- Pablo CHINCHILLA
- Steven BRYCE
Line-up
- Douglas BARQUERO
- Nelson FONSECA (+39')
- Alonso SOLIS (+25')
- Marvin CHINCHILLA
- Andrey CAMPOS
- Jonathan BOLANOS (+77')
- Rodolfo ALVAREZ
Substitute(s)
Coach
Luis SIBAJA (CRC)- Atsushi YANAGISAWA (JPN) 16'
- , Eddie SALAS (CRC) 21'
- , Pablo CHINCHILLA (CRC) 55'
- , Eddie SALAS (CRC) 71'
- , Yuta MINAMI (JPN) 90'
Cautions
- Eddie SALAS (CRC) 71' 2YC
Expulsions
| 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 |