TEAM:
Goalkeepers: Kalyan Chaubey (East Bengal Club - CAPTAIN), Gopal Das (East Bengal Club), Karashwer Singh (Punjab).
Defenders: K. Bineesh (FC Kochin), Suresh Muttiah (Kerala), Hussain Mustafi (Tollygunge Agragami), Falguni Datta (East Bengal Club), Pijush Nandy (Bengal), J.S. Parmer (Punjab), Simon Peter (Railways), Lolendro Singh (Mohun Bagan AC).
Midfielders: Renedy Singh (East Bengal Club), Sasthi Duley (Mohun Bagan AC), Satish Kumar (Karnataka), U. Babu (Karnataka), Melwyn Rodrigues (Dempo SC), Shanmugam Venkatesh (Salgaocar SC), Prahlad Singh Rawat (Salgaocar SC).
Forwards: Dipendu Biswas (East Bengal Club), Balai Mondal (Bengal), Arshad Ansari (Central Railway, Maharashtra), Alvito D'Cunha (Salgaocar SC).
COACH: IVO SAJH-SCHEICH (Slovenia); ASSISTANT COACH: A.S. NAGENDRAN (Karnataka); GOALKEEPER COACH: BRAHMANAND SHANKWALKAR (Goa).
RESULTS:
Group A - all matches in Goa:
05-May-98: India 1-5 Iraq - Goals: 1:0 Alvito D'Cunha (7'), 1:1,1:3 Haitham Jasim (26',52'), 1:2 Abdul Waheed (37'), 1:4 Omar Uthman (60'), 1:5 Abbas Hasun (72').
08-May-98: India 1-5 Uzbekistan - Goals: 0:1, 0:2 Soliev Anvarjon (8',37'), 0:3, 0:4 Isakov Umid (65',67'), 0:5 Matalier Ravshanjon (78'), 1:5 Satish Kumar (89').