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International Matches - Under 20

COTIF under 20 international tournament

Spain's new under 20 side won the COTIF invitation tournament in Valencia after winning all their group games, then beating Canada in the semis and Argentina in the final. Calero got the winning goal near the end to give Luis De la Fuente's side their revenge after losing the final to the South Americans last year. (21.08.13)


Knock-out stage:

Final: Spain 1 - Argentina 0

Spain: Remiro; Iván Sáez, Fernández, Ramírez, Sánchez (Pino 53'), Alejo (Oteo 36'), Marín, Hermoso, León, Tendillo, Calero (Santi Mina 79').
Argentina; Batalla; Carreras (Pinto 79'), Compagnucci (Ferreyra 77'), Di Fonti (Matías Sánchez 71'), Di Franco (Colman 71'), Mammana, Martínez, Moreyra, Sánchez (Driussi 37'), Tripichio (Leszczuck 79'), Vega (Aztina 79').

Goals: 1-0. 78. Calero.


Semi-final: Spain 3 - Canada 0

Spain: Cantero; Campins, Quintilla, Tarín, Iván Sáez, Unai López (Cotán 48'), Yelko Pino (Francisco Sánchez 48'), Iván Alejo (Carlos Fernández 64'), Héctor Hernández (Oteo 64'), José León, Santi Mina.
Canada: Nolan, Duncan, (Zebie 22'), Farmer, Petrasso, Gagnon (Beland 54'), Huitem (Ferguson 60'), Carreiro, Sacramento (Aparicio 44') Adekugbe (Lafon 54'), Enrique García, Froose (Ait Salime 60').

Goals: 1-0. 09. Héctor (penalty); 2-0. 47. Yelco Pino; 3-0. 50. Curro.


Group stage matches:

Spain 3 - Mexico 2

Spain: Alejandro Remiro; Oscar Gil, Antonio Jesús (José León 54'), Iván Calero, Carlos Fernández (Héctor Fernández), Jurgi Oteo (Iván Alejo 50'), Javier Ramírez (Iván Sáez), Francisco Sánchez (Yelko Pino 63'), Antonio Marín, Mario Hermoso, Alberto Tendillo.
México: José Manuel González; Carlos Alberto (Cesar Jaime 64'), Rodrigo Armando González, Kevin Russell (Carlos Andrés Guerrero 64'), Sergio Adrián Flores, Almeida (Diego Bolella 64'), José David Ramírez, Daniel Armando Ríos, Edgar Portilla, Sergio Rodríguez (Irving Rodrigo 57') Guillermo Martínez (Iván Pineda 57').

Goals: 0-1. 20. Martínez; 1-1. 21. Hermoso; 2-1. 37. Gil; 2-2. 38. Almeida; 3-2. 44. Gil.


Spain 3 - Australia 2

Spain: Cantero, Campins (Marín 62'), Quintilla (Hermoso 36'), Tarín (Ramírez 36'), Sáez, Mina (Oteo 44'), López (Cotán 62'), Pino (Sánchez 56'), Alejo (Calero 62'), Hernández (Fernández 44'), León (Gil 56').
Australia: Radonich, Davies, Garuccio (Naumoff 52'), Jiménez, Gligor, Mabil, Makrillos (Olsen 52'), Mauk, Skapetis, Oxborrow, Woodcock.

Goals: 0-1. 04. Skapetis; 1-1. 11. Pino; 2-1. 46. López; 2-2. 65. Skapetis; 3-2. 70. Hermoso.


Spain 4 - Qatar 0

Spain: Remiro; Gil (León 47'), Calero (Tarín 64'), Fernández (Hernández 47'), Oteo (Alejo 54'), Pino (López 47'), Ramírez, Sánchez (Cotán 54'), Marín (Mina 64'), Hermoso (Quintilla 54'), Tendillo (Sáez 36').
Qatar: Naim; Abdulaziz, Ali, Hassan (Ibrahim 64'), Moein, Ahmad (Bakhit 48'), Omer, A Omer, Alawi (Abdou 48'), Jassim, Ali Zaim (A Alsadi 64').

Goals: 1-0. 19. Sánchez; 2-0. 21. Fernández; 3-0. 35. Oteo; 4-0. 43. Calero.


Spain 1 - Saudi Arabia 0

Spain: Ander, Joan Campins (Antonio Marín 35'), Xabier Quintilla, Rodrigo Tarín , Iván Saez (Javier Ramirez 54'), Santi Mina (Jurgi Oteo 54'), Antonio Jesús (Carlos Fernández 48'), Unai López (Yelko Pino 65'), Iván Alejo (Ivan Calero 48'), Hector Fernández (Francisco Sánchez 48') José León (Óscar Gil 65').
Saudi Arabia: Abdullah, Jalawi Hamad, Ahmed, Raghfawi, Al Suwat (Hassan Sharif 53') Hadi, Adel, Aljoufi (Saeed Alkhayiri 46'), Albaqawi, Hashim.

Goals: 1-0. 40. Santi Mina (penalty).


Spain squad:

ALMERIA: Antonio Marín;
ATHLETIC BILBAO: Alejandro Remiro, Unai López, Óscar Gil, Jurgi Oteo;
ATLÉTICO MADRID: Iván Calero, Iván Alejo, Héctor Hernández;
BARCELONA: Rodrigo Tarín, Xabier Quintilla, Sergi Samper;
CELTA: Yelko Pino, David Costas, Santiago Mina;
MALLORCA Joan Campins;
OSASUNA: Ander Cantero;
REAL MADRID: Mario Hermoso, José León, Iván Sáez;
SEVILLA: Francisco Sánchez, Carlos Fernández;
VALENCIA: Salvador Ruiz.

PS Javier Ramírez (Villarreal) and Antonio Jesús Cotán (Sevilla) replaced Sergi Samper and Salva Ruíz in the final squad.