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Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup

Association football tournament

Field	Value
name	Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup
organiser	Football Australia
founded	1988
abolished
region	Australia
number of teams	4
related comps	Brazil Independence Cup
current champions

AUS Frank Farina ARG Hernán Díaz BRA Romário BRA Geovani KSA Majed Abdullah (2 goals)

The 1988 Australian Bicentennial Gold Cup was a one-off association football tournament to celebrate the bincentennial of first settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. It was contested by 1988 AFC Asian Cup winners Saudi Arabia, 1986 FIFA World Cup winners Argentina, world number one-ranked side Brazil and host nation Australia.

The tournament was particularly notable for Australian fans for a remarkable extreme-long range goal scored by Charlie Yankos in Australia's unexpected 4–1 win over then World Champions Argentina. Brazil were eventual winners, beating Australia 2–0 in the final. Argentina took out 3rd place beating Saudi Arabia 2–0 in the third place match.

Participants

Argentina Argentina
Australia Australia
Brazil Brazil
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia

Format

Teams played each other once in a round robin group stage. Each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from the group played in a final and the bottom two teams played in a 3rd place match.

Summary

Group stage

Díaz

Farina

Jorginho Edmar

Yankos Bozinovski

Third place play-off

Dertycia

Final

Müller

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Frank Arok

Carlos Alberto Silva

Awards

Statistics

Goalscorers

AUS Charlie Yankos
AUS Frank Farina
ARG Hernán Díaz
BRA Romário
BRA Geovani
KSA Majed Abdullah
AUS Paul Wade
AUS Vlado Bozinovski
AUS Scott Ollerenshaw
ARG Oscar Ruggeri
ARG Diego Simeone
ARG Oscar Dertycia
BRA Luis Müller
BRA Jorginho
BRA Edmar
ARG Hernán Díaz (against Saudi Arabia)

References

"The Forgotten Story of ... Australia's defeat to Fiji - Vince Rugari". The Guardian.
"The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.". Smh.com.au.
[https://worldcupclips.blogspot.com/2007/07/australia-v-argentina-highlights-60.html ]{{dead link. (July 2015)
(February 2022). "Yankos vs Argentina 4-1 Best Ever Goal". Youtube.
"Socceroo 1988 Matches". Ozfootball.net.
(12 July 2001). "Globalization and Sport".

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