2012 Toulon Tournament

The 2012 Toulon Tournament was the 40th edition of the Toulon Tournament and took place from 23 May to 1 June. Colombia were the defending champions, but they did not participate this year.

2012 Toulon Tournament

Toulon Youth Festival
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	23 May – 1 June
Teams	8 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up	Turkey A2
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	55 (3.44 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marco Fabián (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Héctor Herrera
← 2011 2013 →

Mexico U-23 won their first tournament title by defeating Turkey A2 3–0 in the final. Héctor Herrera was awarded Meilleur joueur as the most outstanding player of the tournament.

Participating teams

•  Belarus
•  France
•  Egypt
•  Japan
•  Mexico
•  Morocco
•  Netherlands
• Turkey A2

Venues

The matches were played in these communes:

• Aubagne
• Avignon
• Hyères
• Le Lavandou
• La Seyne-sur-Mer
• La Valette-du-Var
• Nice
• Saint-Raphaël

Squads

Main article: 2012 Toulon Tournament squads

Results

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Netherlands	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Advance to Semi-final
Turkey A2	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
Egypt	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
Japan	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

23 May 2012

17:45

Turkey A2	2–0	Japan
Oiwa 56' (o.g.) Tozlu 74'	Report

Stade Perruc, Hyères

Referee: Jérôme Efong Nzolo (Belgium)

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23 May 2012

20:00

Egypt	0–3	Netherlands
	Report	Barazite 23' Rienstra 67' Ten Voorde 77'

Stade Perruc, Hyères

Referee: Ricardo Arellano Nieves (Mexico)

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25 May 2012

17:45

Japan	3–2	Netherlands
Saito 5' Ibusuki 43' Ogihara 73'	Report	Gouriye 2' Ten Voorde 46'

Stade de l'Estérel, Saint-Raphaël

Referee: Sergey Tsinkevich (Belarus)

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25 May 2012

20:00

Egypt	1–1	Turkey A2
Gaber 71'	Report	Güral 4'

Stade de l'Estérel, Saint-Raphaël

Referee: Jérôme Efong Nzolo (Belgium)

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27 May 2012

18:10

Japan	2–3	Egypt
Usami 41', 48'	Report	Eid 31' Mohsen 37' Soliman 73'

Le Grand Stade, Le Lavandou

Referee: Mounir Mabrouk (Morocco)

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27 May 2012

18:10

Netherlands	1–0	Turkey A2
Alberg 10'	Report

Stade Vallis Laeta, La Valette-du-Var

Referee: Ricardo Arellano Nieves (Mexico)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
France	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Advance to Semi-final
Mexico	3	2	0	1	7	7	0	6
Morocco	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	2
Belarus	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

24 May 2012

17:45

Morocco	3–4	Mexico
Qasmi 28' Labyad 43', 79' (pen.)	Report	Feddal 7' (o.g.) Fabián 34', 58', 80+3'

Stade de Lattre, Aubagne

Referee: Yudai Yamamoto (Japan)

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24 May 2012

20:00

Belarus	1–3	France
Drahun 49' (pen.)	Report	De Préville 8' Mulumba 59' Makengo 72'

Stade de Lattre, Aubagne

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

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26 May 2012

17:45

Belarus	0–0	Morocco
	Report

Stade du Ray, Nice

Referee: Sham Omar (Egypt)

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26 May 2012

20:00

France	3–1	Mexico
Germain 9' De Préville 13' Landre 60'	Report	Fabián 35'

Stade du Ray, Nice

Referee: Yudai Yamamoto (Japan)

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28 May 2012

18:00

Belarus	1–2	Mexico
Sivakov 44'	Report	Fabián 59', 80+3'

Le Grand Stade, Le Lavandou

Referee: Sham Omar (Egypt)

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28 May 2012

18:00

France	2–2	Morocco
Trebel 23' Makengo 51' (pen.)	Report	Frikeche 54' Feddal 71'

Stade Marquet, La Seyne

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	30 May – Avignon
	Netherlands	2
					1 June – Avignon
	Mexico	4
					Mexico	3
	30 May – Avignon
					Turkey A2	0
	France	0
	Turkey A2	1
					Third place
					1 June – Avignon
					Netherlands	3
					France	2

All times are UTC+2

Semifinals

30 May 2012

17:30

Netherlands	2–4	Mexico
Van Haaren 10', 19'	Report	Herrera 14' Ramírez 52' Jiménez 54' Fabián 78'

Parc des Sports, Avignon

Referee: Sergey Tsinkevich (Belarus)

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30 May 2012

20:00

France	0–1	Turkey A2
	Report	Köse 19' (pen.)

Parc des Sports, Avignon

Referee: Mounir Mabrouk (Morocco)

Third place play-off

1 June 2012

18:30

Netherlands	3–2	France
Wijnaldum 3' Barazite 38' Ten Voorde 80'	Report	De Préville 73' Germain 79'

Stade Perruc, Hyères

Referee: Ricardo Arellano Nieves (Mexico)

Final

1 June 2012

21:00

Mexico	3–0	Turkey A2
Ramírez 26' Mier 71' Pulido 78'	Report

Stade Perruc, Hyères

Referee: Jérôme Efong Nzolo (Belgium)

Mexico

Turkey

GK 12 José Antonio Rodríguez RB 2 Néstor Vidrio CB 3 Hiram Mier (c) 71' CB 13 Diego Reyes LB 5 Dárvin Chávez DM 6 Héctor Herrera  75' CM 14 Jorge Enríquez RW 11 Javier Aquino  79' LW 15 Cándido Ramírez 26' ST 20 Raúl Jiménez  65' CF 10 Marco Fabián Substitutions: ST 19 Alan Pulido  65' 78' CM 8 Jorge Hernández  75' RW 18 César Ibáñez  79' Manager: Luis Fernando Tena

GK 1 Ertuğrul Taşkıran (c) DF 19 Furkan Şeker DF 13 Kemal Tokak DF 2 İshak Doğan DF 8 Salih Dursun MF 14 Bülent Cevahir MF 16 İsmail Haktan Odabaşı MF 18 Necip Uysal MF 20 Erkan Kaş FW 10 Emre Güral FW 9 Tevfik Köse Substitutes: Manager: Gökhan Keskin

Goal scorers

7 goals

• Marco Fabián

3 goals

• Nicolas de Préville
• Rick ten Voorde

2 goals

• Valère Germain
• Terence Makengo
• Takashi Usami
• Cándido Ramírez
• Zakaria Labyad
• Nacer Barazite
• Ricky van Haaren

1 goal

• Stanislaw Drahun
• Mikhail Sivakov
• Ahmed Eid
• Omar Gaber
• Marwan Mohsen
• Salah Soliman
• Loïck Landre
• Rémi Mulumba
• Adrien Trebel
• Hiroshi Ibusuki
• Takahiro Ogihara
• Manabu Saito
• Zouhair Feddal
• Ryane Frikeche
• Yacine Qasmi
• Héctor Herrera
• Raúl Jiménez
• Hiram Mier
• Alan Pulido
• Roland Alberg
• Ninos Gouriye
• Ben Rienstra
• Giliano Wijnaldum
• Emre Güral
• Tevfik Köse
• Eren Tozlu

Own goal

• Kazuki Oiwa (playing against Turkey)
• Zouhair Feddal (playing against Mexico)

Final standings

1.  Mexico
2. Turkey A2
3.  Netherlands
4.  France
5.  Egypt
6.  Morocco
7.  Japan
8.  Belarus

External links

• Toulon Tournament