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FIFA U-20 Tournament Opens to Record Crowd

by Jordan Yerman | June 30, 2007 at 01:10 pm

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Canadian footie fans are enjoying the opportunity to host the second-largest soccer tournament in the world; only the World Cup is bigger.

Further results:

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url="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/fifau20/story/2007/07/01/canada-chile.html"]Team
Canada will try to give the country a special birthday present on
Sunday when it takes on Chile in Toronto (CBC, 7:30 p.m. ET) in its
opening game at the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Will Canada be able to deliver a win on Canada Day?

As host nation, coach Dale Mitchell's team has the weight of the
world on its shoulders — expectations, pressure, media scrutiny —
especially after Canada crashed out in the first round of the 2005
tournament in the Netherlands.

But Mitchell is quietly confident that Canada will be able to emerge from Group A, which also includes Congo and Austria.[/q]

[q
url="http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=77a3d268-887c-40bd-a460-f409b58ffec7"]Championships
are never won with moral victories, but, for what it’s worth, Panama
claimed one such triumph Saturday as it earned its first point ever in
the FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament.

In a scrappy game at Frank Clair Stadium, Panama earned a 0-0 tie with the more fancied Korea DPR side.[/q]

Poland gets the tournament underway with an surprise victory over Brazil:

Poland opened the FIFA Under-20 World Cup soccer tournament Saturday with a surprising 1-0 victory over four-time champion Brazil before an estimated crowd of 40,000 at Olympic Stadium.
Grzegorz Krychowiak scored the game’s only goal when he connected on a free kick from 30 yards out in the 23rd minute.

Almost one million tickets have been sold for the 52-match tournament in six Canadian cities, which begins today in Ottawa and tomorrow when Canada plays Chile at the national soccer stadium (BMO Field) in Toronto. The record for a U-20 is 1.1 million fans in Mexico City a few years ago and the global TV audience could reach 500 million by the time the final is played here on July 22.

The United States will take on Korea Republic in the opening Group D match of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Montreal, Canada, on Saturday.

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