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The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea/Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea and Japan, with its final match hosted by Japan at International Stadium in Yokohama.
Jul 18, 2017 · As the first World Cup to be staged in Asia, many accused FIFA of putting political expedience over supporter convenience, with questions over the football culture in South Korea and Japan...
May 31, 2022 · Twenty years ago today Korea/Japan 2002 kicked off. What was expected and what transpired were wildly different. Argentina and France were the favourites, while Brazil looked in disarray.
Jun 1, 2010 · As the giant Papa Bouba Diop chats away at the Portsmouth training ground on a beautiful spring afternoon, the enormity of what he and his team-mates achieved in Seoul on 31 May, 2002 seems to...
Sep 9, 2022 · It’s absolutely worth wondering what would have happened should either (or both) Japan or South Korea failed to progress past the group stage in 2002, at a crucial time where football was not yet embedded in the national conscience.
World Cup 2002. T he 17th World Cup was played in South Korea and Japan from 31 May to 30 June. For the first time the World Cup tournament was held in Asia and for the first time was the hostship shared by two nations. A total of 199 nations, a record, were involved in the qualification.
Jun 7, 2018 · The 2002 World Cup, like the 1994 tournament in the USA, saw FIFA trying to spread the message outside football's traditional heartlands of Europe and South America. And so the world's 32 best...
