Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 - Men

First stage

Japan - Ghana

1:0 (1:0)

Match	Date	Venue / Stadium	Time	Attendance
24	18 August 2004	Volos / Panthessaliko Stadium	20:30	6813

Goals scored

Yoshito OKUBO (JPN) 37'

Japan

Line-up

[1]
Hitoshi SOGAHATA (GK)
[2]
Marcus Tulio TANAKA
[3]
Teruyuki MONIWA
[5]
Yuki ABE
[6]
Yasuyuki KONNO
[8]
Shinji ONO (C)
[9]
Daiki TAKAMATSU
[12]
Naoya KIKUCHI
[13]
Yuichi KOMANO (-23')
[14]
Naohiro ISHIKAWA (-62')
[16]
Yoshito OKUBO (-82')

Substitute(s)

[4]
Daisuke NASU
[7]
Koji MORISAKI (+23')
[10]
Daisuke MATSUI (+62')
[11]
Tatsuya TANAKA (+82')
[15]
Yuhei TOKUNAGA
[17]
Sota HIRAYAMA
[18]
Takaya KUROKAWA

Coach

Masakuni YAMAMOTO (JPN)

Ghana

Line-up

[1]
George OWU (GK)
[3]
Baffour GYAN (-57')
[4]
Emmanuel OSEI
[6]
Emmanuel PAPPOE
[10]
Stephen APPIAH
[11]
Patrick VILLARS (-77')
[12]
Asamoah GYAN
[13]
Razak PIMPONG (-46' HT)
[15]
Daniel COLEMAN
[16]
William TIERO
[17]
Yussif CHIBSAH (C)

Substitute(s)

[2]
Nasir LAMINE (+77')
[5]
John MENSAH
[7]
Abubakar YAHUZA
[8]
Charles TAYLOR (+57')
[9]
Kwadwo POKU (+46' HT)
[14]
John PANTSIL
[18]
Mohammed ALHASSAN

Coach

Mariano BARRETO (POR)

Cautions

Yussif CHIBSAH (GHA) 16'
, Daniel COLEMAN (GHA) 29'
, Stephen APPIAH (GHA) 45'
, Daiki TAKAMATSU (JPN) 63'
, Hitoshi SOGAHATA (JPN) 74'
, Asamoah GYAN (GHA) 80'

Sent off

Match Officials

Referee Kyros VASSARAS (GRE)	Assistant Referee 1 Philip SHARP (ENG)
Fourth Official Christoforos ZOGRAFOS (GRE)	Assistant Referee 2 Martin CRYANS (SCO)

a.e.t.:	After extra time	(C):	Captain	PSO:	Penalty Shoot-out
GK:	Goalkeeper	N:	Not eligible to play	I:	Injured
Y:	Misses next match if booked	Pos:	Positions	A:	Absent
DF:	Defender	MF:	Midfielder	MinP:	Minutes played
GF:	Goals for	GA:	Goals against	PK (PG/PS):	Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots)
FC:	Fouls Committed	FS:	Fouls Suffered	R:	Red Cards
FW:	Forward	SOG/S:	Shots on Target	Y: 2YC:	Yellow cards Second yellow card and red card