A few months after the FIFA soccer World Cup, the fever with which the Japanese people watched their players in blue heroically reach the latter stages of the competition has not much dissipated in Tokyo. But the interest is moving quiet... ...
While Mexico's Estadio Azteca remained a daunting venue for the Americans in the ensuing years, the 2002 World Cup win made the Americans feel, as Donovan put it, "like we could beat them anywhere else."In their 25 head-to-head matches since 2002, the USMNT have 11 victories to...
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The company will launch Good Neighbors, a three-part series on its Prime Video service around the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which begins in November.The series will look at the political, social, and sporting layers of the rivalry; Mexico has beaten the U.S. 36 times since 1934, when the ...
Complacency could be France's biggest obstacle at the World Cup finals. Roger Lemerre's side, who will start as favourites together with Argentina, have nothing to prove. Success at Euro 2000 has been added to their triumph at France '98 and even FIFA's hard-to-climb ... MORE Germany ...
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Tsubasa Ozora is an 11-year-old elementary school student who is deeply in love with football and dreams of one day winning the FIFA World Cup for Japan. He lives together with his mother in Japan, while his father is a seafaring captain who travels around the world. ...
Byline: CHRIS BASCOMBESVEN Goran Eriksson will send his England squad into battle tomorrow with a warning not to fall foul of FIFA's disciplinary crackdown.World Cup chiefs have urged referees to clamp down on cheating, diving and cynical fouls. There are fears a surge of yellow and red ...
This was the first World Cup that featured squads of 23 players, an increase from 22 previously. Of the 23 players, 3 must be goalkeepers. Draw The FIFA Organising Committee announced the eight seeded teams on 28 November 2001. The historic tradition to seed the hosts (Japan and South ...
As the surprising South Koreans dumped Great Britain out of the Olympic quarterfinals, one couldn't help but think of Guus Hiddink's South Korea that reached the 2002 FIFA World Cup semifinals against all odds...