2008 Toulon Tournament

The 2008 Toulon Tournament was the 36th edition of the Toulon Tournament, and was held from 20 May to 29 May 2008. Tournament finished with the final between Italy and Chile at Stade Mayol in Toulon as Italy had the title after the final score of 1–0, scored by Pablo Osvaldo in the 70th minute.

2008 Toulon Tournament

Toulon Youth Festival
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	20–29 May
Teams	8 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (1st title)
Runners-up	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	42 (2.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sekou Cissé (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Sebastian Giovinco

Participant teams

•  Chile
•  France (host)
•  Italy
•  Ivory Coast
•  Japan
•  Netherlands
•  Turkey
•  United States

Venues

The matches were held in these communes:

• Aubagne
• Hyères
• La Londe
• La Seyne
• Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer
• Solliès-Pont
• Toulon

Squads

Main article: 2008 Toulon Tournament squads

Results

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Chile	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Advance to Semi-final
Japan	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
Netherlands	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
France	3	0	0	3	4	8	−4	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Match summaries

All times local (UTC+2)

2008-05-20

18:00

Japan	1–0	Netherlands
Lee 64'	report

Toulon

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2008-05-20

20:30

France	3–5	Chile
Bonnet 19' Quercia 23' Pentecôte 47'	report	Fuenzalida 33' Martínez 54' Louvion 80' (o.g.) Lorca 89' Sagredo 90'

Toulon

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2008-05-22

18:00

France	1–2	Japan
Quercia 71'	report	Umesaki 17' Morimoto 60'

Hyères

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2008-05-22

20:30

Netherlands	0–2	Chile
	report	Fuenzalida 19' Orellana 84' (pen.)

Hyères

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2008-05-24

18:30

France	0–1	Netherlands
	report	Kivuvu 53'

Saint Cyr

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2008-05-24

18:30

Chile	2–0	Japan
Carmona 75' Morales 90+2'	report

Solliès-Pont

Group B

Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Italy	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9	Advance to Semi-final
Ivory Coast	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Turkey	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3
United States	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Match summaries

All times local (UTC+2)

2008-05-21

15:30

Turkey	3–2	United States
Güngör 19' Şahin 35' Parlak 59'	Report	Brunner 58' Ochoa 72'

Toulon

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2008-05-21

18:00

Ivory Coast	0–2	Italy
	Report	Giovinco 65', 73'

Toulon

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2008-05-23

18:30

Ivory Coast	1–0	United States
Djapka 70' (pen.)	Report

La Seyne

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2008-05-23

20:30

Italy	2–1	Turkey
Lanzafame 32' Marchisio 89'	Report	Yılmaz 50'

La Seyne

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2008-05-25

18:00

Italy	2–0	United States
Abate 31' Dessena 36'	Report

La Valette

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2008-05-25

18:00

Ivory Coast	4–0	Turkey
Cissé 43', 45+2', 86' Moura 75'	Report

Aubagne

Semi-finals

2008-05-27

Chile	2–1	Ivory Coast
Morales 5' Orellana 60'	Report	Djapka 40'

Toulon

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2008-05-27

Italy	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Japan
	Report
Penalties
Bocchetti Abate Cigarini Candreva Giovinco	5–4	K. Honda Kajiyama Morishige Mizuno Mizumoto

Toulon

Third-place playoff

2008-05-29

18:00

Ivory Coast	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Japan
Fofana 31' Cissé 90+4'	Report	Escudero 72' Morishige 82'
Penalties
Djapka Fofana Kone Anthony Cissé	4–3	Honda Morishige Morimoto Lee Mizumoto

Toulon

Final

May 29, 2008
20:45

Chile	0–1	Italy
	Report	Osvaldo 70'

Toulon

2008 Toulon Tournament
Italy First title

Goal scorers

4 goals

• Sekou Cissé

2 goals

• José Pedro Fuenzalida
• Pedro Morales Flores
• Fabián Orellana
• Constant Djapka
• Julien Quercia
• Sebastian Giovinco

1 goal

• Carlos Carmona
• Juan Gonzalo Lorca
• Hans Martínez
• Boris Sagredo
• Beko Ismael Fofana
• Anthony Moura
• Alexandre Bonnet
• Xavier Pentecôte
• Pablo Osvaldo
• Ignazio Abate
• Daniele Dessena
• Davide Lanzafame
• Claudio Marchisio
• Sergio Escudero
• Tadanari Lee
• Takayuki Morimoto
• Masato Morishige
• Tsukasa Umesaki
• Dominique Kivuvu
• Eren Güngör
• İlhan Parlak
• Nuri Şahin
• Aydın Yılmaz
• Eric Brunner
• Sammy Ochoa

Own goal

• Cyriaque Louvion (for Chile)

Individual awards

• Player of the tournament:
  • Sebastian Giovinco
• The Best goalkeeper:
  • Davide Bassi^[1]

Referees

Selected referees according to official website:^[2]

Referees: Steven Depiero Monetchet Nahi Olivier Thual Paolo Tagliavento Kenji Ogiya Jorg Sousa Iain Brines Fırat Aydınus

Assistant Referees: Daniel Belleau Darren Clark Karl Santigli Massimiliano Grilli Renato Faverani Jose Ramalho Francis Andrews Stuart Macaulay