After the FIFA World Cup, the FIFA U-20 World Cup is the most important association football championship which is performed by male players under 20 years old, every two years, since 1977. 2011 tournament will take place in Colombia, South America.
At the FIFA’s executive committee meeting held in Sydney, Australia, on the 26th of May 2008 Colombia beat the only other candidate Venezuela, by withdrawing from the race with Brazil to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The Colombian Football Federation unveiled the budget for conducting the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011, which is 150 billion Colombian Pesos (USD 75 million aprox.).The completion of the event could provide Colombia with a launch pad to become a possible host for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011 games will be played between July 29th and August 20th in the cities of Bogotá, Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Manizales, Armenia and Pereira. The opening game would be held at the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, in Barranquilla, with Estadio El Campín hosting the Final match.
The championship will be competed by 32 U-20 national teams from the six world confederations (UEFA, Conmebol, Concacaf, AFC, CAF and OFC), divided into six groups. The two best-ranked teams in each group will qualify to the eighth-finals together with the four best thirds. That makes 16 teams in 8 games. Winners go to quarter-finals and so on to semi-finals and final.
In 18 editions of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Argentina has won 6, Brazil 4, Portugal 2, Soviet Union, Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain and Ghana 1. The FIFA U-20 World Cup has launched international football stars such as Diego Maradona, Oleg Salenk, Adriano, Javier Saviola, Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero.
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