Sports News of Thursday, 8 April 1999

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Soccer-World Youth championship results

LAGOS(Nigeria) 8 April '99



Results in the World Youth (under-20) soccer championship on

Wednesday:

Group A (in Lagos)

Nigeria 2 Germany 0

Scorers: Ganiyu Shittu 60, Hashimu Garba 70

Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 20,000

Paraguay 3 Costa Rica 1

Scorers:

Paraguay - Roque SantaCruz 26, Nelson Vera 60, Nelson

Cuevas 65

Costa Rica - Mauricio Garita 27

HT: 1-1; Att: 10,000

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Group B (in Kaduna)

Ghana 1 Argentina 0

Scorer: Peter Ofori-Quaye 77

Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 5,000

Croatia 5 Kazakhstan 1

Scorers:

Croatia - Zvonimir Deranja 8, Ali Aliyev 37og,

Silvester Sabolcki 79, Ivica Banovic 83, Sasa Bjelanovic

90

Kazakhstan - Yerlan Urazayev 67

HT: 2-0; Att: 5,000

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Group C (in Ibadan)

Mexico 3 Australia 1

Scorers:

Mexico - Rafael Marquez 2, Juan Rodriguez 58pen, Daniel

Osorno 83

Australia - Mile Sterjovski 45

Halftime: 1-1; Attendance: 2,000

Saudi Arabia 0 Ireland 2

Scorers: Stephen Mcphail 41, Damien Duff 54

HT: 0-1; Att: 2,000

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