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16/06/02 Senegal in quarter finals
Oita, Jun 16 Sweden Senegal 1 - 2
Senegal in quartes finals. After Larsson scored first for Sweden it was Henry Camara to egalize. 1 to 1 after the regular 90 minutes, extra times were played. Henry Camara scored again and became a national Hero for Senegal who will match the winner of the Japan - Turkey game in quarter finals.

Soccercrew Man of the match U Aquino


Author: WC2002

15/06/02 Germany in Quarter-Finals
Germany defeats today Paraguay 1-0, thanks to Oliver Neuville who scored after 88' minutes.
In Quarter-Finals Germany will match the winner of the Mexico-Usa clash.
Author: World Cup Reports

11/06/02 Senegal and Denmark qualified
France and Uruguay eliminated

France become the first defending champions since Brazil in 1966 to fail to advance to the second round of the FIFA World Cup. Destiny seemed to announced loudly that it was plainly against France when Trezeguet had his shot hit the underside of the crossbar and bounce down centimetres in front of the goal line. France is eliminated, after hitting six times the bar in three games, but no scoring a single goal.. Denmark qualify as first of group A and will match second placed of group F.




Author: World Cup Reports

08/06/02 Nesta 'very doubtful' for Mexico match
Italy defender Alessandro Nesta is considered very doubtful for his country's World Cup Group G battle with Mexico in Oita on Thursday.
Author: World Cup Reports

07/06/02 Red cards stats
Boris Zivkovic,Salif Alassane Diao,
Alpay Ozalan ,
Hakan Unsal ,
Thierry Henry
Author: World Cup Reports

07/06/02 Zidane back in training
The world's most expensive player was absent from France's first two matches.
Today Zidane has trained with the ball and will probably play against Denmark.
Author: World Cup Reports

07/06/02 Maldini could miss Italy-Croatia
Paolo Maldini, the veteran italian left defender and captain could miss Italy-Croatia game after twisting an ankle in training.

'He twisted his left ankle. There is no swelling but there is some pain, we need to wait 12 hours. It is a just a question of the pain,Maldini has more than 50 percent chance of being fit.' said Ferretti, the italian doctor.
Author: World Cup Reports

03/06/02 ITALY-ECUADOR 2-0
Sapporo, Jun 3 ITALY EQUADOR 2 - 0
Italy easily win against Ecuador thanks to the first 30 minutes of play when italians dominated the south american side.
Vieri scored twice while Totti deliciated with high quality skill. In the second half, nothing happened, Italy simply defended the result, Ecuador was unable to be dangerous.

Soccercrew man of the Match Francesco Totti

Author: World Cup Reports

03/06/02 BRAZIL-TURKEY 2-1
BRAZIL TURKEY 2 - 1
An inglorious win for Brazil thanks to a doubt penalty given by the korean referee who denied Turkey a penalty in the first half.
Two turkish players kicked off in an unlucky day for Kim Young-yoo who did too many mistakes helping Brazil to win the game.

Soccercrew man of the Match Juninho Paulista

Author: World Cup Reports

03/06/02 MEXICO_CROATIA 1-0
CROATIA MEXICO 0 - 1
Croatian defender Boris Zivkovic became the first player to be sent off in the 2002 World Cup finals after felling Cuauhtemoc Blanco of Mexico in the penalty area. Blanco scored the penalty giving mexico an important win.

Soccercrew man of the Match Rafael Márquez

Author: World Cup Reports

02/06/02 SPAIN-SLOVENIA 3-1
Spain wins their opening match 3-1 after moments of real quality play. Slovenia has played defensive trying to get a draw. After Spain scored, Slovenia has tried to come back in the match, but the second goal of Valeron decided tha match definetely for Spain.

Goals
Raúl González (44)
Juan Carlos Valerón (74)
Segastjan Cimirotic (82)
Fernando Hierro Penalty (88)

SoccerCrew man of the Match Francisco De Pedro


Author: World Cup Reports

02/06/02 England-Sweden 1-1
England and Sweden in Saitama with Sol Campbell and Niclas Alexandersson getting the goals.The English team had the better of play in the first half, the Swedish in the second half. It was Seaman to save England in the last minutes from an unexpected defeat.

Soccercrew man of the Match David Seaman

Goals
Sol Campbell (24)
Niclas Alexandersson (59)

Author: World Cup Reports

02/06/02 Paraguay-South Africa 2-2
It finishes 2-2 after a fine South African comeback from 2-0 down . Another spectacular match in this great World Cup edition. The italian defensive play of Cesare Maldini didn't work well in the second half, when South Africa large domination completed a superb comeback.

Soccercrew Man of the match is Quinton Fortune

Goals
Roque Santa Cruz (39)
Francisco Arce (55)
Estanislao Struway (63) o.g.
Quinton Fortune (90)

Author: World Cup Reports

02/06/02 Argentina-Nigeria 1-0
Skilful football in Ibaraki, Japan, as both teams attacked creating many chance to score. It was Batistuta to score the decisive goal giving Argentina an important win. Nice game,the low score line misleading as both sides played attacking.
World Cup favourite Argentina showed a fantastic attacking play, but also some defensive problems.

Gabriel Omar Batistuta (63)



Author: World Cup Reports

01/06/02 Germany humiliates Saudi Arabia
GERMANY SAUDI ARABIA 8 - 0
All is easy, perhaps too easy for Germany who humiliates Saudi Arabia scoring four times in the first half. Absolute star is Miroslav Klose who scored twice in less than 5 minutes. Miroslav Klose scored again in the second half. Also Linke,Ballack, Bierhoff, Schneider and Janker scored.

Miroslav Klose (19)
Miroslav Klose (24)
Michael Ballack (39)
Carsten Jancker (45)
Miroslav Klose (68)
Thomas Linke (72)
Oliver Bierhoff (83)
Bernd Schneider (90)
Author: World Cup Reports

01/06/02 Denmark defeats Uruguay
Denmark managed a crucial win in the second game of group A. Denmark and Senegal now leading group A with 3 points.
France and Uruguay no points. It was a spectacular match largely dominated by Denmark in the second half.

Tomasson scored twice, Rodriguez scored for Uruguay
Author: World Cup Reports

01/06/02 Draw for Ireland and Cameroon
In the opening game of the group E, Cameroon and Republic of Ireland draw in Niigata. Cameroon dominating in the first half and scoring the opener with Mboma before Ireland took control of things in the second half and equalised through Holland.


Soccercrew Man of the match is Damien Duff
Author: World Cup Reports

31/05/02 Senegal defeats France !!!
Final result
France-Senegal 0-1
30' Bouba Diop

Yellow card for Emmanuel Petit and Aliou Cissé

Best player
Fadiga
Author: World Cup Reports


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