BOL U15 5-0 HAI U15
Singapore City
Bolivia have won the final of the 2010 Youth Olympic Boy’s Football Tournament, after their second demolition of Haiti in the space of 2 weeks. Goals from Rodrigo Mejido (5′), Jorge Alpire (31′), Christian Arano (53′), and Luis Banegas (60′, 72′) gave the South American representatives over their Northern counterparts, which followed on from a 9-0 win over Haiti in the Group Stage. The Haitians will be proud of their efforts though, and will hope that their silver medal will restore some happiness to their recovering nation.
In an earlier game, host country Singapore took the Bronze medal with a 4-1 triumph over Montenegro in a match between the losing Semi-Finalists. The remaining teams that were knocked out in the Group Stage, Zimbabwe and Vanuatu, played a 5th-Place Play-Off a couple of days previously, with the Oceanians winning 2-0. As there were no qualification tournaments beforehand, each of the six continental confederations were asked to choose a nation to represent them in this event for Under-15 teams.
The 6-team tournament was one of the best-attended events of the 2010 Games (also surpassing the women’s tournament), in the first-ever Youth Olympic Games, which were staged in Singapore City (Singapore) (the next edition, in 2014, is to be staged in Nanjing (China)). The highest attendances came when the host nation were involved, with crowd levels at the Jalan Besar Stadium reaching the 6,000 capacity. The tournament, and the Youth Olympics as a whole, seem to have been viewed as a success, and the organizers will hope that this carries over into the next edition.
2010 Youth Olympics Football Tournament – Statistics
Final Standings:
1) BOL
2) HAI
3) SIN
4) MNE
5) VAN
6) ZIM
Other Statistics:
Top Scorer: Rodrigo Mejido (BOL), 6 goals
Total Goals: 44 (in 11 matches)
Highest Attendance: 6,000, SIN 0-2 HAI, Semi-Final, Singapore City
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