These statistics were written and researched for the OzSoccer archive by Paul Mavroudis.
| In the 1993 World Youth Championships, Australia were drawn in the same group as Argentina, Canada and Nigeria. Their first opponents were the Argentineans. | ||||
| Played : August 22 1993 | Venue : Nagoya, Japan | |||
| Australia Paul Lapic, Andrew McDermott, Darren Sime, Dragi Nastevski, David Ristevski (Giovanni Carbone 41'), Paul Bilokapic, Roberto Gomez (Joe Tricarico 68'), Andy Vargas, Sebastian Naglieri, Jonothan Carter, Hayden Foxe Goals : Naglieri 6' Ristevski 27' |
2 | - | 2 | Argentina Jose Ramirez, Fabricio Fuentes, Federico Dominguez, Milton Acosta (Pablo Rodriguez 50'), Rodrigo Vilarino, Norberto Orrego, Nicolas Diez, Andres Grande, Leonardo Biagini, Roberto Cantoro, Kurt Lutman (Emiliano Romay 55') Goals : Grande 34' Biagini 57' |
| Referee : Anders Frisk (Sweden) Attendance : 9952 Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia), Reinaldo Merlo (Argentina) | ||||
| Australia's next group game was against Canada | ||||
| Played : August 24 1993 | Venue : Nagoya, Japan | |||
| Australia Paul Lapic, Andrew McDermott, Dragi Nastevski, Paul Bilokapic, Roberto Gomez, Andy Vargas, Sebastian Naglieri (Nick Bosevski 51'), Jonothan Carter, Giovanni Carbone (Malcolm Meilak 41'), Hayden Foxe, Anthony Alvos Goals: Carter 5' 12' Bilokapic 48' 55' Bosevski 68' |
5 | - | 0 | Canada Steve London, Milan Kojic (Christian Salina 41'), Chris Craveiro, Jason Bent, Jeff Clarke, Nevio Pizzolitto, Dave Di Placido, Alvin Clyne, Paul Stalteri, Agostino Vaglica (Jim Brennan 41'), Robbie Aristodemo |
| Referee : Sandor Piller (Hungary) Attendance : 6810 Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia), Bert Goldeberger (Canada) | ||||
| The final group game was against Nigeria | ||||
| Played : August 26 1993 | Venue : Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium, Gifu City, Japan | |||
| Australa Paul Lapic, Andrew McDermott, Dragi Nastevski, Paul Bilokapic, Roberto Gomez, Andy Vargas(Nick Bosevski 59'), Jonothan Carter (Joe Tricarico 59'), Malcolm Meilak, Hayden Foxe, Milan Gajic, Anthony Alvos |
0 | - | 2 | Nigeria Emmanuel Babayaro, Mobi Oparaku, Celestine Babayaro, Pascal Ojigwe, Festus Odini, Wilson Oruma, Ibrahim Babandiga, Festus Okuogha (Nwankwo Kanu 43'), Elokha Asokuh, Abiodun Ogbebor, Peter Anosike Goals: Kanu 51' Oruma 68' |
| Referee : Salvador Imperatore Marcone (Chile) Attendance : 5732 Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia), Fanny Amun (Nigeria) | ||||
| Australia qualified for the quarter finals after finishing second in their group. They were drawn against Ghana. | ||||
| Played : August 29 1993 | Venue : Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe, Japan | |||
| Ghana Ali Jarra, Sebastian Barnes, Emmanuel Opoku, Mark Edusei, Joseph Fameye, Daniel Addo, Essuman Dadzie, Emmanuel Duah, Gabriel Antwi, Mohammed Muftawu, Kenneth Sarpong (Nei Welbeck 83') Addo 92' |
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Australia Paul Lapic, Andrew McDermott, Dragi Nastevski, Paul Bilokapic, Roberto Gomez (Sebastian Naglieri 71'), Andy Vargas (Joe Tricarico 54'), Jonothan Carter, Giovanni Carbone, Malcolm Meilak, Hayden Foxe, Anthony Alvos |
| Referee : Benito Archundia (Mexico) Attendance : 10,000 Coach : Isaac Paha (Ghana), Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||