2008 Toulon Tournament

Toulon Youth Festival
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	20 May – 29 May
Teams	8 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (1st title)
Runner-up	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	41 (2.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sekou Cisse (4 goals)
Best player	Sebastian Giovinco

The 2008 Toulon Tournament was the 36th edition of the Toulon Tournament, and was held from 20 May to 29 May 2008. Tournament finished with the final between Italy and Chile at Stade Mayol in Toulon as Italy had the title after the final score of 1–0, scored by Pablo Daniel Osvaldo on 70^th minute.

Contents 1 Participant teams 2 Match locations 3 Results 3.1 Group A 3.1.1 Table 3.1.2 Match summaries 3.2 Group B 3.2.1 Table 3.2.2 Match summaries 3.3 Semi-finals 3.4 Third-place playoff 3.5 Final 4 Goal scorers 5 Individual awards 6 Squads 7 Referees 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Participant teams

Chile  Côte d'Ivoire  France (host)  Italy

Japan  Netherlands  Turkey  United States

[edit] Match locations

The matches were held in these communes:

• Aubagne
• Hyères
• La Londe
• La Seyne
• Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer
• Solliès-Pont
• Toulon

[edit] Results

[edit] Group A

[edit] Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chile	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9
Japan	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
Netherlands	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
France	3	0	0	3	4	8	−4	0

[edit] Match summaries

All times local (UTC+2)

2008-05-20 18:00	Japan	1 – 0	Netherlands	Toulon
	Lee  64'	report

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2008-05-20 20:30	France	3 – 5	Chile	Toulon
	Bonnet  19' Quercia  23' Pentecôte  47'	report	Fuenzalida  33' Martínez  54' Louvion  80' (o.g.) Lorca  89' Sagredo  90'

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2008-05-22 18:00	France	1 – 2	Japan	Hyeres
	Quercia  71'	report	Umesaki  17' Morimoto  60'

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2008-05-22 20:30	Netherlands	0 – 2	Chile	Hyeres
		report	Fuenzalida  19' Orellana  84' (pen.)

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2008-05-24 18:30	France	0 – 1	Netherlands	Saint Cyr
		report	Kivuvu  53'

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2008-05-24 18:30	Chile	2 – 0	Japan	Solliès-Pont
	Carmona  75' Morales  90+2'	report

[edit] Group B

[edit] Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
Côte d'Ivoire	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Turkey	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3
United States	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

[edit] Match summaries

All times local (UTC+2)

2008-05-21 15:30	Turkey	3 – 2	United States	Toulon
	Güngör  19' Şahin  35' Parlak  59'	Report	Brunner  58' Ochoa  72'

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2008-05-21 18:00	Côte d'Ivoire	0 – 2	Italy	Toulon
		Report	Giovinco  65'  73'

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2008-05-23 18:30	Côte d'Ivoire	1 – 0	United States	La Seyne
	Djapka  70' (pen.)	Report

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2008-05-23 20:30	Italy	2 – 1	Turkey	La Seyne
	Lanzafame  32' Marchisio  89'	Report	Yılmaz  50'

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2008-05-25 18:00	Italy	2 – 0	United States	La Valette
	Abate  31' Dessena  36'	Report

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2008-05-25 18:00	Côte d'Ivoire	4 – 0	Turkey	Aubagne
	Cissé  43'  45+2'  86' Moura  75'	Report

[edit] Semi-finals

2008-05-27	Chile	2 – 1	Côte d'Ivoire	Toulon
	Morales  5' Orellana  60'	Report	Djapka  40'

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2008-05-27	Italy	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Toulon
		Report

		Penalties
	Bocchetti Abate Cigarini Candreva Giovinco	5 – 4	K. Honda Kajiyama Morishige Mizuno Mizumoto

[edit] Third-place playoff

2008-05-29 18:00	Côte d'Ivoire	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Toulon
	Fofana  31' Cissé  90+4'	Report	Escudero  72' Morishige  82'

		Penalties
	Djapka Fofana Kone Anthony Cissé	4 – 3	Honda Morishige Morimoto Lee Mizumoto

[edit] Final

May 29, 2008 20:45	Chile	0 – 1	Italy	Toulon
		Report	Osvaldo  70'

2008 Toulon Tournament
Italy First title

[edit] Goal scorers

4 goals (Top Scorer) Sekou Cissé 2 goals José Pedro Fuenzalida Pedro Morales Flores Fabián Orellana Constant Djapka Julien Quercia Sebastian Giovinco 1 goal Carlos Carmona Juan Gonzalo Lorca Hans Martínez

Boris Sagredo Beko Ismael Fofana Anthony Moura Alexandre Bonnet Xavier Pentecôte Pablo Daniel Osvaldo Ignazio Abate Daniele Dessena Davide Lanzafame Claudio Marchisio Sergio Ariel Escudero Tadanari Lee Takayuki Morimoto

Masato Morishige Tsukasa Umesaki Dominique Kivuvu Eren Güngör İlhan Parlak Nuri Şahin Aydın Yılmaz Eric Brunner Sammy Ochoa Own goal Cyriaque Louvion (for Chile)

[edit] Individual awards

• Player of the tournament:
  • Sebastian Giovinco
• The Best goalkeeper:
  • Davide Bassi^[1]

[edit] Squads

[edit] Referees

Selected referees according to official website:^[2]

Referees: Steven Depiero Monetchet Nahi Olivier Thual Paolo Tagliavento Kenji Ogiya Jorg Sousa Iain Brines Fırat Aydınus

Assistant Referees: Daniel Belleau Darren Clark Karl Santigli Massimiliano Grilli Renato Faverani Jose Ramalho Francis Andrews Stuart Macaulay

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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