1954 South American U-20 Championship

The First Youth Football Cup 1954 South America took place until April 13, 1954 in Venezuela on 22 March 1954.

The encounters were wearing to determine the tournament winner of the event, also known as Juventud de América in Caracas. It participated in the tournament, the national teams of Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela in part. Added to this was at the invitation of the national selection of the Central American country of Panama.

It was played in two groups and one then also be transmitted in group mode Final Phase. Venezuela as a host was automatically qualified for the final phase and increased only at this time in the tournament. From the event Uruguay was the winner. The second to fourth occupied the national teams from Brazil, Venezuela and Peru.

Scorer of the tournament was the Paraguayan Juan B. Agüero, with seven goals scored.

The cadres of the winning team consisted of the following players:

Jorge Rodríguez Andrade (Central), Simón Peña ( Cerro ), Eustaquio Claro, Enrique Cruz, Ramón Cruz (all Danubio ), Héctor Demarco, Enrique Laitano (both Defensor ), José Ayup, Juan López (both Liverpool), Guillermo Escalada, Walter Marichal, Omar Ramos, Roberto Sosa ( all Nacional ), Walter Davoine, José Mónaco, José Rizzo (all Peñarol ), Manuel Pedersen ( Rampla Juniors) and Víctor Guaglianone ( Wanderers ).