Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1:
Date: January 18, 2001
Venue: Nehru Stadium, Kochin
Time: 7 pm
Match: Uruguay 2-3 Bosnia-Herzegovina (golden Goal)
Goals: 1:0 Daniel Pereira (12'), 1:1 Zehrudin Kavazovic (40'), 2:1 Juan Segales (59'), 2:2 Dzelaudin Muharemovic (83'), 2:3 Mirsad Beslija (97').
Antony John reports a golden goal by substitute Mirsad Beslija in the seventh minute of extra time helped Bosnia-Herzgovina defeat Uruguay 3-2 after both teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation time in the first quarter-final of the Sahara Cup Football, here, on Thursday evening.
Uruguay's Pereira Daniel (12th minute) and Juan Segales (59th) scored for their side, while for Bosnia the scorers were Dzehrudin Kavazovic (40th), Zelaudin Muharemovic (83rd) and Mirsad Beslija (7th minute of extra-time).
In an evenly contested match, Uruguay took the lead in the 12th minute through Daniel which was equalised by Bosnia's Kavazovic in the 40th minute. Uruguay once again took the lead through Juan in the 59th minute, but it was neutralised by Muharemovic. In extra time, much against the run of play, Beslija who came in for Milan Ozren, brought cheers into the camp when he struck the 'golden goal.'
The winning goal emanated from the left flank, where Almedin Hota after trapping the ball sent in a cross into the box where Dzelaudin collected the ball and passed it to Beslija who dodged past a defender and banged into the net with goalkeeper Monserrat Diego out of his position.
Bosnia now move to Kolkota for the semifinals on January 22 where they will take on the winners of the quarter-final match between Chile and Iceland.
URUGUAY: Diego Monserrat, Nestor Cardozo, Antonio Esmerode, Alexandro Umpierrez, Mario Gastan,Marcelo Dapueto, Marcelo Mansilla, Daniel Pereira, Victor Abelenda, Juan Segales, Ricardo Varela.
BOSNIA: Adnan Guso, Zehrudin Kavazovic, Sead Seferovic, Munever Rizvic, Dalibor Nedic, Asmir Ikanovic, Omer Joldic, Milan Ozren (Mirsad Beslija), Dzelaudin Muharemovic, Admir Adzem, Almedin Hota.

Quarterfinal 2:
Date: January 20, 2001
Venue: Fatorda Stadium, Margao
Time: 4.30 pm
Match: Yugoslavia 2-0 Romania
Goals: 1:0 Sasa Ilic (30'), 2:0 Igor Bogdanovic (45').
Yugoslavia easily beat their neighbours Romania 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the Millennium Cup at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda in Goa. They could have won by a much bigger margin but failed to score more, missing even a penalty in the process. Yugoslavia scored both in the first half. Captain Ilic Sasa scored in the 30.minute, while Igor Bogdanovic added another in injury time of the first half.
YUGOSLAVIA: Zarko Lucic, Milivoje Cirkovic (Boris Vaskovic), Ivan Ilic, Vuk Rasovic, Dusan Petkovic, Dragoijub Jeremic, Sasa Ilic, Dulaj Igor, Goran Trobok (Dejan Radenovic), Igor Bogdanovic, Vladimir Ivic (Vladan Kostic).
ROMANIA: Eugen Anghel, Sergiu Bar, Alin Chibulcutean, Sergiu Costin, Remus Gilmencea, Aurel Zlati (Raul Marincau), Decebal Ghiara, Imre Temfli (Ioan Luca), Florin Beraru (Liviu Zahriue), Marius Sasu, Lucian Sanmantean.
Referee: Balu Sundaraj (India).

Quarterfinal 3:
Date: January 20, 2001
Venue: Saltlake Stadium, Calcutta
Time: 6.30 pm
Match: Chile 2-0 Iceland
Goals: 1:0,2:0 Sebastian Gonzalez (37',50').
Amitabha Das Sharma Reports Chile fixed up a semifinal date with Bosnia Herzegovina on Monday beating Iceland 2-0 in the second quarterfinal of the Sahara Cup football tournament here at the Salt Lake stadium on Saturday. Striker Sebastian Gonzalez turned the hero of the evening scoring a goal in each of the two sessions.
It was late into the first session that Chileans could gain some hold over the midfield action. Marco Villaseca, playing the central schemer, mobilised the flanks with upfield provisions. The flank attacks fetched dividends soon as the Chilean outside left forward released his central colleague Sebastian Gonzalez with a minus. Gonzalez was prompt to volley but the crosspiece came in the way in the 36th minute.
As Chile retreived the ball following the clearence, right half Rodrigo Melendez sent a through for Gonzalez. Gonzalez shielded his marker in Iceland stopper-back G. Jonsson and receiving the ball finished with a right-footed half volley in the 37th minute.
The second session saw the Chilens with renewed resolve. It was the another gem of a finishing by Gonzalez, who for the first time was included in the starting XI, as he complemented a short cross from the right by Fernando Martel before diverting the ball past the Iceland goalkeeper G. Gunnleifsson with a sharp volley in the 50th minute to give his team the 2-0 cushion.
With Iceland falling behind unable to call the performance it had shown initially in the first session, Chile slowed down the pace of the match. Iceland tried a late surge but both its striker captain Gudmundsson and the other forward S. Olafsson fared miserably with their finishing. The scoreline scripted by Chile thus endured.
CHILE: Marcelo Ramirez, David Henriquez, Alex von Schwedler, Rafael Olarra, Moises Villarroel, Marco Villaseca, Rodrigo Melendez (Cristian Alvarez), Cristian Uribe (Francisco Arrue, 81st), Fernando Martel (Mauricio Rojas), Sebastian Gonzalez, Hector Tapia.
ICELAND: Gunnieifur Gunnleifsson, Indridi Sigurdsson (Veigar Gunnarsson), Bjarni Thorsteinsson, Sverrir Sverrisson, Gunnanlaugur Jonsson, Clafur Orn Bjarnasson, Sigurvin Olafsson (Hreidar Bjarnason), Thorhallur Orn Hinriksson, Tryggvi Gudmundsson, Gudmundur Benediktsson (Saevar Gislason), Gylfi Einarsson.
Referee: Hassan Marshoud (Jordan).

Quarterfinal 4:
Date: January 21, 2001
Venue: Saltlake Stadium, Calcutta
Time: 5 pm
Match: Jordan 0-4 Japan
Goals: 0:1 Yoshimasa Fujita (31'), 0:2 Ota Keisuke (54'), 0:3 Keiji Yoshimara (58'), 0:4 Hideki Sekine (67').
Amitabha Das Sharma reports that Japan celebrated its entry into the Sahara Cup semifinals with a glut of goals beating Jordan 4-0 in the last quarterfinal match here at Salt Lake Stadium on Sunday. Japan will now meets Yugoslavia in the second semifinal to be played on Tuesday.
Playing its customary fast paced game, Japan excelled in its attacks finishing in four out of the six positive chances that the Asian champion earned. Jordan failed to provide the right opposition and succeeded only in some forays through the wings in the initial session of the match but the moves met premature deaths as the Japan defence - especially the stoppers Mitsura Chiyotanda and Koyabashi - stood to the occasions throttling the attempts by the Jordanian attackers Badran Al- Shaqran and Hatem M. Aqel.
Japan rested its dribbling maestro in forward Fukai Masaki and preferred to have tall Ota Keisuke as the pivot around whom all the attack built up. But the first break in the match came through midfielder Fujita Yoshimasa in the 31st minute. Facing difficulty in breaching the tall Jordan defence-line, Yoshimasa successfully tried a long ranger from around 35 yards intercepting a defensive clearance before unleashing a powerful right-footed pile driver that gave no chance to the Jordan custodian, Ahmad Al-Khazaleh.
Jordan's only hope of breaching the Japanese citadel came in the 36th minute when Rafat Ali Jaber intercepted an intended back- pass by Yoshimasa but before Jaber could make an attempt the Japanese goalkeeper saved the day, charging in for a timely clearance. Jordan, which has scaled the likes of the mighty Romanians in the league phase, found the Japanese combined university team too hot to handle, conceeding three more goals in the second session. The tentativeness in its offence and midfield, as feared by its Argentine coach Ricado Carugati before the match, appeared to be coming true as Jordan faltered in its offensive giving Japan all the freedom to scheme and implement its attacks.
Keisuke played his role to perfection heading in a corner by Keiji Yoshimura in the 54th minute. Keeping up the thrusts on the flanks, Japan got the third goal in the 58th minute when Yoshimura finished a brilliant move down the left that saw Mikami Takuya stealing deep into the Jordan penalty area before essaying a measured minus for his colleague to finish.
Frustration mounted in the Jordan ranks and the players involved in rough tackles incurring cautions from Indian referee Binod Kumar Singh. The Middle East team saw the greatest perpetrator in defender Hassouneh Sheikh Qasem who collected simultaneous yellow cards for foul and dissent to be given marching orders in the 65th minute. Given a greater space to play with the opposition down to 10 men, Japan enhanced its tally to 4-0 in the 67th minute having Sekine Hideki - substituting Yoshimasa midway through the second session - volley home a cross from the dynamic left flank by Takuya.
The win will serve as a great morale booster for the youthful team from Japan which takes on the fancied Yugoslavs after a day's break.
JORDAN: Jamal A Abu Abed, Adnan A Al-Shubait, Hassouneh Sheikh Qasem, Hatem M Aqel, Rafat Ali Jaber, Haitham H Semrin (Rateb Al-Awadat), Faisal I Suleiman (Ghanem Y Hamarsheh), Haitham Al-Shboul, Muhammed Mahadeen, Ahmad Al-Khazaleh, Badran Al-Shaqran (Mu’Yed Mansour).
JAPAN: Toshiyasu Takahara (Testu Sugiyama), Kobayashi Sugiyama, Mitsuru Chiyotanda (Daiki Iwamasa), Hirakawa Tadaaki, Takuya Mikami, Satochi Horinouchi, Naotake Hanyu, Yoshimasa Fujita (Hideki Sekine), Keiji Yoshimara, Nobumitsu Yamane, Ota Kesuke.
Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India).