FIFA World Youth Championship Nigeria 1999

Semi-finals

Uruguay - Japan

1:2 (1:2)

Match	Date	Time	Venue / Stadium	Attendance
50	21 April 1999	19:00	Lagos / National	8000

Match Officials

Referee Simon MICALLEF (AUS)	Assistant Referee 1 John Rexford BOWDLER (AUS)
	Assistant Referee 2 Taoufik ADJENGUI (TUN)

Goals scored

Naohiro TAKAHARA (JPN) 23',
Ernesto CHEVANTON (URU) 24',
Yuichiro NAGAI (JPN) 35'

Uruguay

Line-up

[1]
Fabian CARINI (GK)
[2]
Fernando CARRENO
[3]
Gonzalo SORONDO
[4]
Carlos DIAZ
[5]
Omar POUSO (C) (-45' HT)
[6]
Cesar PELLEGRIN
[7]
Alejandro CORREA RODRIGUEZ
[8]
Diego PEREZ
[9]
Ernesto CHEVANTON (-59')
[10]
Martin LIGUERA (-52')
[14]
Diego FORLAN

Substitute(s)

[11]
Jorge ANCHEN
[12]
Mauricio NANNI
[13]
Damian MACALUSO
[15]
Fernando ALBERMAGER (+59')
[16]
Luis MACHADO
[17]
Fabian CANOBBIO (+45' HT)
[18]
Fernando CARDOZO (+52')

Coach

Victor PUA (URU)

Japan

Line-up

[18]
Yuta MINAMI (GK)
[2]
Kasuki TESHIMA
[3]
Shigeki TSUJIMOTO
[7]
Tomoyuki SAKAI
[8]
Mitsuo OGASAWARA
[9]
Naohiro TAKAHARA
[10]
Masashi MOTOYAMA (-45' HT)
[11]
Yasuhito ENDO (-45' HT)
[12]
Koji NAKATA
[13]
Shinji ONO (C)
[14]
Yuichiro NAGAI

Substitute(s)

[1]
Tatsuya ENOMOTO
[4]
Tatsuya ISHIKAWA (+57')
[5]
Akira KAJI (+45' HT)
[6]
Junichi INAMOTO (+45' HT)(-57')
[15]
Yasunori TAKADA
[16]
Ryuji BANDO
[17]
Hideyuki UJIIE

Coach

Philippe TROUSSIER (FRA)

Cautions

Ernesto CHEVANTON (URU) 59'
, Fernando ALBERMAGER (URU) 61'
, Shinji ONO (JPN) 71'
, Koji NAKATA (JPN) 79'
, Diego PEREZ (URU) 79'
, Yuta MINAMI (JPN) 90'

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