Football at the 1997 Mediterranean Games

The football competition at the 1997 Mediterranean Games took place between June 8 and June 25, 1997^[1] and was contested by 13 teams.

Participating teams

System

The 13 teams will be divided into three groups of three teams and one group of four teams. Teams are awarded three points for a win and one for a draw. No points are awarded for a defeat. The top sides in each group will advance to the semi-finals.

Squads

Italy

Head coach: Marco Tardelli

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Gianluigi Buffon	(1978-01-28)28 January 1978 (aged 19)	Parma
1GK	Matteo Gianello	(1976-05-07)7 May 1976 (aged 21)	Chievo
1GK	Matteo Sereni	(1975-02-11)11 February 1975 (aged 22)	Sampdoria
2DF	Alessandro Birindelli	(1974-11-12)12 November 1974 (aged 22)	Empoli
2DF	Francesco Coco	(1977-01-08)8 January 1977 (aged 20)	Milan
2DF	Alessandro Dal Canto	(1975-03-10)10 March 1975 (aged 22)	Venezia
2DF	Alessandro Grandoni	(1977-07-22)22 July 1977 (aged 19)	Lazio
2DF	Duccio Innocenti	(1975-09-20)20 September 1975 (aged 21)	Lucchese
2DF	Emanuele Pesaresi	(1976-12-01)1 December 1976 (aged 20)	Sampdoria
2DF	Fabio Rustico	(1976-05-20)20 May 1976 (aged 21)	Atalanta
2DF	Marco Zamboni	(1977-12-07)7 December 1977 (aged 19)	Chievo
3MF	Roberto Baronio	(1977-12-11)11 December 1977 (aged 19)	Lazio
3MF	Jonathan Binotto	(1975-01-22)22 January 1975 (aged 22)	Verona
3MF	Diego De Ascentis	(1976-07-31)31 July 1976 (aged 20)	Bari
3MF	Stefano Fiore	(1975-04-17)17 April 1975 (aged 22)	Chievo
3MF	Giuliano Giannichedda	(1974-09-21)21 September 1974 (aged 22)	Udinese
3MF	Raffaele Longo	(1977-09-06)6 September 1977 (aged 19)	Napoli
4FW	Marcello Campolonghi	(1975-02-15)15 February 1975 (aged 22)	Brescia
4FW	Alessandro Iannuzzi	(1975-10-09)9 October 1975 (aged 21)	Lazio
4FW	Cristiano Lucarelli	(1975-10-04)4 October 1975 (aged 21)	Padova
4FW	Francesco Totti	(1976-09-27)27 September 1976 (aged 20)	Roma
4FW	Nicola Ventola	(1978-05-24)24 May 1978 (aged 19)	Bari

Turkey

Caps and age as of 16 June 1997

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Hakan Çalişkan	(1978-01-01)1 January 1978 (aged 19)	2	0	Beşiktaş (loan to Muğlaspor)
2	2DF	Emrah Eren	(1978-11-13)13 November 1978 (aged 18)	0	0	Adanaspor
3	2DF	Fatih Akyel	(1977-12-26)26 December 1977 (aged 19)	1	0	Bakırköyspor
4	2DF	Ali Eren Beşerler	(1975-10-25)25 October 1975 (aged 21)	7	0	Gençlerbirliği
5	2DF	Ümit Özat	(1976-10-30)30 October 1976 (aged 20)	6	0	Gençlerbirliği
6	2DF	Sinan Demircioğlu	(1975-04-23)23 April 1975 (aged 22)	2	0	Beşiktaş
7		İdris Gümüşdere	25 November 1976			Gençlerbirliği (loan to Adanaspor)
8	3MF	Serdar Topraktepe	25 August 1976			Beşiktaş
9	4FW	Mustafa Özkan	21 February 1975			Beşiktaş
10	4FW	Serkan Aykut	24 February 1975			Samsunspor
11		Çetin Güner	28 December 1977			Trabzonspor
12		Kubilay Aydin	30 December 1975			Gençlerbirliği
13		Hakkı Daş	1 February 1977			Kayseri Erciyesspor
14		Erdal Eraslan	17 September 1977			Trabzonspor
15		Hasan Yiğit	2 January 1975			Gaziantepspor
16		Sinan Taniş	1 June 1976			Gaziantepspor
17	3MF	Yıldıray Baştürk	24 December 1978			Wattenscheid
18	3MF	Altan Aksoy	5 February 1976			Adanaspor
19		Nuri Çolak	17 August 1975			Kocaelispor
20		Ziya Şahin	6 April 1976			Vanspor
21		Selahattin Kınalı	15 May 1978			Gümüşhanespor
22	2DF	Ramazan Tunç	17 September 1975			Ankaragücü

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Turkey	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
Algeria	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
Slovenia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
Libya	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	2	1	1	0	4	0	+4	4
Yugoslavia	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
Albania	2	0	0	2	1	7	−6	0

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Greece	2	2	0	7	1	+6	6
France	2	1	1	4	3	+1	3
San Marino	2	0	2	1	8	−7	0

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
Croatia	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0

Knockout stage

Semi-finals			Final

23 June – Lecce
Italy	2
Spain	0

			25 June – Bari
			Italy	5
			Turkey	1


			Third place
23 June – Taranto		25 June – Foggia
Greece	0	Spain	0
Turkey	1		Greece	1

References

↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/medgames97.html

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