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Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup#Final

{{short description|Association football tournament}}

{{Infobox football tournament

| name = Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup

| image =

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| alt =

| caption =

| organiser = Football Australia

| title =

| founded = 1988

| abolished = {{start date and age|1988}}

| region = Australia

| number of teams = 4

| related comps = Brazil Independence Cup

| current champions = {{fb|BRA}}

| broadcasters =

| motto =

}}

{{Infobox international football competition

| year = 1988

| country = {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia

| dates = 6–17 July 1988

| num_teams = 4

| venues = 3

| cities = 3

| champion = BRA

| second = AUS

| third = ARG

| count = 1

| matches = 8

| goals = 22

| attendance =

| top_scorer = {{flagicon|AUS}} Charlie Yankos
{{flagicon|AUS}} Frank Farina
{{flagicon|ARG}} Hernán Díaz
{{flagicon|BRA}} Romário
{{flagicon|BRA}} Geovani
{{flagicon|KSA}} Majed Abdullah (2 goals)

| prevseason =

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The 1988 Australian Bicentennial Gold Cup was a one-off association football tournament to celebrate the bincentennial of first settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. It was contested by 1988 AFC Asian Cup winners Saudi Arabia, 1986 FIFA World Cup winners Argentina, world number one-ranked side Brazil and host nation Australia.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/nov/11/the-forgotten-story-of-the-socceroos-defeat-to-fiji|title=The Forgotten Story of ... Australia's defeat to Fiji - Vince Rugari|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2015-07-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/aussie-update/australias-10-best-moments/2006/06/14/1149964581863.html|title=The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.|work=Smh.com.au|accessdate=2015-07-09}}[http://worldcupclips.blogspot.com/2007/07/australia-v-argentina-highlights-60.html ]{{dead link|date=July 2015}}

The tournament was particularly notable for Australian fans for a remarkable extreme-long range goal scored by Charlie Yankos in Australia's unexpected 4–1 win over then World Champions Argentina.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElpBJzzVbU|title=Yankos vs Argentina 4-1 Best Ever Goal|work=Youtube|accessdate=2020-04-21}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}} Brazil were eventual winners, beating Australia 2–0 in the final.{{cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1988A.html|title=Socceroo 1988 Matches|work=Ozfootball.net|accessdate=2015-07-09}} Argentina took out 3rd place beating Saudi Arabia 2–0 in the third place match.

Participants

Format

Teams played each other once in a round robin group stage. Each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from the group played in a final and the bottom two teams played in a 3rd place match.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3_DwFH5L4wC&q=Australia+Bicentenary+Gold+Cup&pg=PA116|title=Globalization and Sport|isbn=9780761959694|accessdate=2015-07-09|last1=Miller|first1=Toby|last2=Lawrence|first2=Geoffrey|last3=McKay|first3=Jim|last4=Rowe|first4=David|date=12 July 2001}}

Summary

=Group stage=

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|team_order=BRA, AUS, ARG, KSA

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|col_F=green1 |text_F=Advance to Final

|col_TP=blue1 |text_TP=Advance to Third place play-off

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{{footballbox

| date = 6 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|ARG}}

| score = 2–2

| report = [https://www.ksa-team.com/english/matches.php?id=833 Report]

| team2 = {{fb|KSA}}

| goals1 = Díaz {{goal|27||50|pen.}}

| goals2 = Majed Abdullah {{goal|41}}
Díaz {{goal|61|o.g.}}

| stadium = Football Park, Adelaide

| attendance = 9,664

| referee = Barry Harwood (Australia)

}}

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{{footballbox

| date = 7 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|AUS}}

| score = 0–1

| report = [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1988A.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|BRA}}

| goals1 =

| goals2 = Romario {{goal|31}}

| stadium = Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

| attendance = 11,214

| referee = Richard Lorenc (Australia)

}}

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{{footballbox

| date = 9 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|AUS}}

| score = 3–0

| report = [https://www.ksa-team.com/english/matches.php?id=834 Report]

| team2 = {{fb|KSA}}

| goals1 = Ollerenshaw {{goal|6}}
Farina {{goal|42||81}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Parramatta Stadium, Sydney

| attendance = 11,396

| referee = Bill Monteverde (Australia)

}}

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{{footballbox

| date = 10 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|BRA}}

| score = 0–0

| report = [https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/oz-bicent88.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|ARG}}

| goals1 =

| goals2 =

| stadium = Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

| attendance =

| referee = Donald Campbell (Australia)

}}

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{{footballbox

| date = 13 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|BRA}}

| score = 4–1

| report = [https://www.ksa-team.com/english/matches.php?id=835 Report]

| team2 = {{fb|KSA}}

| goals1 = Geovani {{goal|27|pen.|50}}
Jorginho {{goal|28}}
Edmar {{goal|40}}

| goals2 = Majed Abdullah {{goal|30}}

| stadium = Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

| attendance = 3,200

| referee = Chris Bambridge (Australia)

}}

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{{footballbox

| date = 14 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|AUS}}

| score = 4–1

| report = [https://ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1988A.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|ARG}}

| goals1 = Wade {{goal|2}}
Yankos {{goal|42||67|pen.}}
Bozinovski {{goal|80}}

| goals2 = Ruggeri {{goal|31}}

| stadium = Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney

| attendance = 18,985

| referee = Gary Power (Australia)

}}

=Third place play-off=

{{footballbox

| date = 16 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|ARG}}

| score = 2–0

| report = [https://www.ksa-team.com/english/matches.php?id=836 Report]

| team2 = {{fb|KSA}}

| goals1 = Simeone {{goal|4}}
Dertycia {{goal|23}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Bruce Stadium, Canberra

| attendance = 2,729

| referee = Gary Power (Australia)

}}

=Final=

{{footballbox

| date = 17 July 1988

| team1 = {{fb-rt|AUS}}

| score = 0–2

| report = [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1988A.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|BRA}}

| goals1 =

| goals2 = Romario {{goal|56}}
Müller {{goal|67}}

| stadium = Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney

| attendance = 28,161

| referee = Donald Campbell (Australia)

}}

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| title = Australia

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{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"

width="25"|width="25"|
GK1Jeff Olver
RB2Wally Savor{{suboff
}

|-

|CB ||15 ||Charlie Yankos

|-

|CB ||21||Robbie Dunn

|-

|LB ||3 ||Graham Jennings

|-

|RM ||4 ||Paul Wade || ||

|-

|CM ||12 ||Alan Davidson||(c)

|-

|CM ||6 ||Frank Farina|| {{suboff|}}

|-

|LM ||19||Oscar Crino || ||

|-

|CF ||17||Graham Arnold || ||

|-

|CF ||10||Scott Ollerenshaw|| ||

|-

|colspan=3|Substitutions:

|-

|MF ||5 ||Vlado Bozinovski|| || {{subon|}}

|-

|FW ||7||Robbie Slater || || {{subon|}}

|-

|colspan=3|Manager:

|-

|colspan=3|Frank Arok

|}

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style="font-size:90%; margin:auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
width=25|width=25|
GK1Cláudio Taffarel
RB13Jorginho
CB3Aloisio
CB14Ricardo Gomes
LB6Nelsinho
RM8Andrade
CM5Valdo
LM10Geovani
RF7Müller
CF9Edmar(c){{suboff
} ||

|-

|LF ||11||Romario||

|-

|colspan=3|Substitutions:

|-

|DF ||2 ||Winck||{{subon|}}||

|-

|colspan=3|Manager:

|-

|colspan=3|Carlos Alberto Silva

|}

|}

Awards

{{winners|fb|Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup|Brazil|First}}

Statistics

=Goalscorers=

{{goalscorers

|matches=8|goals=22

|2 goals=

|1 goals=

|1 own goal=

}}

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/oz-bicent88.html Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup] on the RSSSF

1988

Bicentenary

Category:1988 in Brazilian football

Category:1988–89 in Argentine football

Category:1988–89 in Saudi Arabian football

Category:Australian bicentennial commemorations

Category:International men's association football invitational tournaments