TOULON U-20 TOURNAMENT LIVE ON ESPN3 FOR SKY SPORT SUBSCRIBERS:
Can check out prospective qualifying sides for the u-20 World Cup on iSky (or "Sky Go" or whatever they call it now) on ESPN3.com if you're a Sky Sport subscriber. Includes Brazil and China who NZ are playing next month in the Panda Cup in China.
Thay are showing live games from the current Toulon Tournament - Europe's biggest friendly international u-20 tournament held every year in Toulon, France.
This year's participating teams: France, Brazil, England, Portugal, Chile, China, Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, Qatar
Runs May 22 - June 2 NZT
To watch online on Sky Go ("iSky") via ESPN3:
http://www.skygo.co.nz/catchup/channels/espn3com
After you've signed in and gone to ESPN3, find the live schedule here:
http://espni.go.com/player/video/sky/index.htm
Also find full videos of previous games by clicking on "Live" and then "Replay" beneath the video player (a few pages of games incl. football).
Next live matches in Toulon Tournament: Sunday May 25: South Korea v. Qatar 1.30 am; Brazil v. Colombia 3.45 am
Full match schedule and result updates here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Toulon_Tournament
Tournament website (in French - use Google Translate):
http://www.festival-foot-espoirs.com/
Full squads, match reports etc. here.
BRAZIL U-20 SQUAD:
Naturally looks pretty awesome - I guess they'll take the same team to China to play our Junior All Whites, Croatia and China in the Panda Cup next month. China will be pretty busy too.
Brazil squad for the Toulon Tournament includes (on top of their Brazil-based talent) the European-based trio:
http://www.festival-foot-espoirs.com/festival-foot-espoirs/list-festival-foot.php?ID_nation=2
| Lucas Domingues Piazon | Lucas Piazon | 20.01.1994 | Chelsea (Eng) |
| Marcos Correa Aoas | Marquinhos | 14/05/1994 | SG Paris (France) |
| Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo | DOUGLAS SANTOS | 03/22/1994 | Udinese (Ita) |
CHINA:
But a big surprise for me, is the number of European-based players in the China squad. If they're any good, they'll be a tough opponent in the China tournament. Man, they have a guy at Atletico Madrid! And five in Portugal! Plus one at Club Bruges.
China u-20 Squad at the Toulon Tournament (probably the same will face NZ in June):
http://www.festival-foot-espoirs.com/festival-foot-espoirs/list-festival-foot.php?ID_nation=4
Overseas-based players:
| LIU | Yiming | 28.02.1995 | Sporting Portugal (Por) |
| XU | Xin | 19.04.1994 | Atletico Madrid (Esp) |
| WANG | Shangyuan | 02.06.1993 | Bruges (Bel) |
| YEERJIETI | Yeerzhati | 04.01.1993 | Gondomar (Por) |
| JIA | Tianzi | 28.02.1994 | SC Covilha (Por) |
| GUO | YI | 29.01.1993 | Tondela (Por) |
| LI | Yuanyi | 28.08.1993 | Boavista (Por) |