1971 South American U-20 Championship

The V. Youth Football South American Championship 1971 was held until March 25, 1971 in Paraguay from March 1, 1971.

Paraguay set up so that after 1967 for the second time in succession this tournament, because no other national football association agreed to. The organizing committee stood before General Marcial Alborno. It consisted of Ernesto Barchello ( Guaraní ), Cnel. Blas Servín Ramírez (Club Cerro Porteño ), Adolfo Buzo (Nacional ) and Antonio Achon construction ( Libertad ).

The encounters were wearing to determine the tournament winner of the event, also known as Juventud de América in Asunción. It participated in the tournament, the national teams of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela in part.

It was played in two groups of five (group A ) or four (group B) and a subsequent teams, discharged in the KO Final Phase method with two semi-finals and a final.

In the two semifinals to Argentina were compared against Uruguay (1:2) against Peru and Paraguay ( 3-1 ).

Due to a 1-1 draw in the final match between Paraguay and Uruguay was resorted to the decision on goal difference in the semi-finals. Therefore, from the event went the team of Paraguay as the winner. Trained was this Benjamín Laterza, who succeeded his predecessor Sinforiano García in this position only three weeks before the tournament starts.

Top scorers of the tournament were the Uruguayan Ricardo Islas and the Paraguayans Cristóbal Maldonado with four goals scored.

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

Goal: Sixto Lionel Bareiro ( Sportivo Luqueño ), Juan de la Cruz " Chiquito " Benítez ( Olimpia ), Angel Cibils ( Libertad )

Defense: Alicio Solalinde (River Plate), Peito Rodríguez ( Cerro Porteño ) Eleno Eudoro Ríos ( Sp Luqueño ), Pedro Medina ( Libertad ), Sergio González ( Nacional), Secundino Aiffuch ( 12 de Octubre de Villa Elisa ), Pablo González ( Guaraní )

Midfielders: Juvencio Osorio ( Cerro Porteño ), Félix Fermín Marín ( Cerro Porteño ), Tito Ramon Correa ( Olimpia ), Hector de los Santos Ricardo ( Libertad ), Arecio Colmán ( Libertad ), Luis Ernesto Torres ( Nacional)

Storm: Celso González ( Nacional), Roberto Cino ( Sol de América ), Carlos Diarte ( Olimpia ), Cristóbal Maldonado ( Libertad ), Carlos Báez (Nacional), Osvaldo Aquino (San Lorenzo)