Turnauksen sivuilta:Finland – China 2:0
9 January 2011, St. Petersburg , PSCC, 4500 spectators
Referee: Shadyhanov, Abusuev, Milyuchenko.
Finland:
Pennanen , Uronen (Seferi 66), Latosaari, Nurdstrem, Hatakka, Jokinen (Salonen 83), Karvonen, Lam (c)(Makela 66), Heimonen, Vayrynen (Hilska 90+), Paananen
Head coach: Mika Laurikainen
China:
Han Rongze, Wang Tong (c) (Yang Chaosheng 78), Pei Shuai, Shi Ke, Wu Ti, Mi Haolun (Zhuang Jiajie 58), Chen Hao, Wu Xinghan, Yang Kuo (Fang Gang 68), Li Songyi, Li Fang (Lin Chuangyi 58).
Head coach: Su Maozhen
Goals: Paananen (84, 88)
Yellow cards: Vayrenen (41), Seferi (78), Li Fang (36), Pei Shuai (37)
Best player: Nurdstrem, Li Songyi
Comments.
Head coach of Finland:
- I’m very happy not only for my team but for the whole country. Finnish team wins not every day. Today, as we expected, was a difficult game. I looked through all the games of China, noted the tactics and discipline of this team, that is why we prepared very carefully. We have no loses on this tournament: the draw, than victory, the draw and victory again, it was a surprise for me, but this can happen only in football. It shows that level of our team is increasing and we should win again, may be here, may be somewhere else.
Talking about the team, I can say that 3 boys played for the first time with this squad, three players are newcomers in national team – that is why I have 6 new players here, and couldn’t dream about better result than this. Next year I will work with a Youth National team of Finland and some of these players I want to take with me.
I thank the organizers of the tournament, hope we will be invited next year.
Head coach of China:
- I congratulate Finland team with the victory! Our opponents showed their best, especially in the games with Russia and Italy, it was a football of high quality. Certainly we wanted to score and win, but the Finnish team could score twice on last minutes. If we didn’t loose the ball at the end of second half we could win.
We learned much for these days: got a lot of information about players and about youth football in general. In spite of second place, I think that our team played on high level. If we calmed down the excitement, the result would have been different. Probably we wanted to win too much.
