The ninth edition of the men's football tournament at the Pan American Games was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from 15 August to 27 August 1983. Ten teams competed in a first round-robin competition, with Brazil defending the title. After the preliminary round there was a semifinal and a final.Panamerican Games 1983 (Caracas) by Barrie Courtney and Erik Garin on the RSSSF
Uruguay, coached by Oscar Tabárez, won their first Pan American title after beating Brazil 1–0 in the final.35mo. Aniversario Panamericanos 1983, 23 Aug 2018 on AUF
Qualifying
North America
Participants
(qualifiying winner)
(qualifiying winner)
Original draw Originally, the tournament was to have been played by 12 teams organised into four groups of three teams, but Honduras and Suriname withdrew, forcing a rearrangement of the original draw (shown below). Group A: Venezuela, Chile, Suriname Group B: Brazil, United States, Bermuda Group C: Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras Group D: Uruguay, Mexico, Cuba
First round
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Semifinal Group B winner (Brazil) received a bye to the final.
Gold-medal match
GK José Luis Sosa DF Alvaro Pérez DF Santiago Ostolaza DF José Batista DF Abraham Yeladián MF Juan Rabino MF Vicente R. Rodríguez MF Ricardo Perdomo FW Miguel Peirano FW Víctor Púa FW Luis Heimen Substitutes: Edgardo Martirena Manager: Oscar Tabárez
GK Hugo DF Heitor DF Everaldo DF Guto DF Jorginho MF Edson Souza MF Dunga MF Neto FW Helinho FW Marcus Vinícius FW PaulinhoSubstitutes: DF Adalberto Waldir Manager: Gílson Nunes
Awards
Statistics Goalscorers
Squads
Uruguay José Luis Sosa, Mario Picún, Gualberto de los Santos, Álvaro Pérez, José Batista, Juan Rabino, Abraham Yeladián, Santiago Ostolaza, Rudy Rodríguez, Ricardo Perdomo, Daniel Carreño, Luis Heimen, Carlos Larrañaga, Víctor Púa, Edgardo Martirena, Aldo Azzinari, Julio Rivadavia, Miguel Ángel Peirano.
Brazil Hugo Duarte, João Brigatti, Heitor, Jorginho, Édson Bonifácio, José Bagitini, Everaldo Rogelio, Adalberto Machado, Édson de Souza, Dunga, Paulo Bellotti, Maurício Villela, Hélio de Conceição, Waldir de Carvalho, Paulinho Carioca, Paulo Pereira, Neto, Marcus do Nascimento.
Guatemala Edgar Jerez, David Gardiner, Edgar Salguero, Guillermo Rodríguez, Julio Gómez, Benjamín Monterroso, Rubén Paredes, Jorge Fernández, José Bobadilla, Eddy Alburez, Byron Pérez, Boris Ortiz, Víctor Hugo Monzón, Julio de la Roca, Wálter Claverie, Hermenegildo Castro, Víctor Hugo Méndez, Otto Mynor Méndez.
Argentina Mario Bernio, Jorge Ceballos, Héctor Cejas, Duilio Dagametti, Esteban Del Río, Gustavo Dezotti, Juan Gilberto Funes, Rodolfo Garnica, Eugenio Gentile, Francisco Guillén (GK), Humberto Gutiérrez, Ariel Moreno, Juan José Oficialdegui, Oscar Olivera, Norberto Ortega Sánchez, Carlos Prono (GK), Esteban Solaberrieta, Jorge Theiler. Head coach: Carlos Pachamé
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