The hosts and defending champions in that match will aim for their fourth crown in the competition after the 1985, 1993 and 2007, while Swiss debutants, which have been confirmed as a great revelation, reach the final game as the only team that counts their six-game victories.
In the stellar shock of the day, with air from #39 final advance #39;, Nigeria was again the scourge of the Spanish, just two years final after both played in Seoul and that Africans were imposed on penalties (3-0 after a goalless draw).
For the #39; Rojita #39; Lagos this time was no charm and the team lost in the same city where, a decade ago, the country joined his first and only world title in a meeting of the International Federation (FIFA), the U-20 1999 with an generation in which figures were current as Iker Casillas and Xavi.
The many Nigerians took the signing of Stanley Okoro (minute 30) and Emmanuel Sani (61 and 71), which added its fifth target in the tournament, as well as Borja, who saved the honor of his own at 83. Both reach and Uruguayan Sebastian Gallegos, who can no longer add more because his team lost in the quarterfinals.
Premises, current champions, reaching their sixth final in the competition and aim for their fourth victory, following the successes of 1985, 1993 and 2007, which would leave him as sole leader of honors, ahead of another three-time champion, Brazil, eliminated in the group stage.
The Spanish last defeat in the tournament final went back to beat Brazil (1-0) in Finland-2003, the same issue in which Nigerians recorded their last loss, against Argentina in the group stage.
What decided the game was that Nigerians were more effective and made goals in their domain phases. We accomplish our only goal when the game was almost finished, said European trainer, Gines Melendez .
Meanwhile, the rout of the Swiss left Colombia on the verge of what would have been the first final of their history in a major tournament by FIFA.
The challenge now will be the symbolic #39; bronze #39, with which surpass his best performance, fourth place in Finland-2003, and match the achievement of the U-20 team that year in UAE, when he got the third place, with the help of coach Reinaldo Rueda.
Nobody expected to see us in the top four, but here we are and now we will fight for third place. Do not be easy, but we will do the best we have, he promised his coach, Ramiro Viafara veteran.
The game was marked by hand in the area of Santiago Arias in minute 13, which led to his expulsion by a straight red and a penalty that turned at 14 Nassim Ben Khalifa, becoming very complicated things to the South Americans.
Colombians tried to respond soon after, but the #39; steamroller #39; Swiss asserted his superiority in numbers and their offense very effectively to get your strongest result in the tournament (4-0), with goals by Haris Seferovic, Bruno Martignoni and Chilean-born defender Ricardo Rodriguez.
The reverse #39; coffee #39, ends with the last title hopes of the South American Confederation (CONMEBOL), which in the history of U-17 tournament has only put in the a representative final, Brazil, five times for a total of three titles (1997, 1999, 2003).
The Swiss, with a full six wins in as many commitments, beat also the record of consecutive games won by a European representative in the tournament, leaving the mark of five who served in France to become champion eight years ago in Trinidad and Tobago.
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