The Korea-Japan World Cup 2002 is the 17th FIFA World Cup, which was held from May 31 to June 30, 2002 at 10 stadiums in 10 cities in South Korea and 10 stadiums in 10 cities in Japan.

It is also the first World Cup to be held in Asia, and the first World Cup to be co-hosted by two countries.

It was also the first time that the Chinese team entered the World Cup, and in the end, it was the Brazilian team that won the championship and achieved the name of five-star Brazil.

German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Ballon d'Or and alien Cristiano Ronaldo won the Golden Boot, and it was an era of superstars shining brightly.

Under the leadership of head coach Bora Milutinovic, the Chinese team broke into the World Cup finals for the first time in history.

Having been in the same group as Brazil, Costa Rica and Turkey, the Chinese media are hoping that China can score at least one goal in the World Cup.

In the first game against Costa Rica, Sun Jihai was injured soon after the opening, and the Chinese team lost 0-2 and started China's World Cup journey with the first loss, and the second game of the group stage was the match with Brazil!

Brazil's team led by 3R taught China a good lesson, winning by 4 goals, and in the final game of the Chinese team's group, the Chinese team defeated the Turkish team 0-3, and China was eliminated after losing all three games.

For a long time, the Chinese have always regarded the level of sports as a symbol of national strength and an important way to wrestle with the Western world, and some people have even raised it to the height of national dignity and honor to discuss it.

In 2002, the World Cup came to Asia for the first time, and fans are still looking forward to it than ever, one of the important reasons is that fans don't have to stay up late to watch the game.

The Chinese team made its debut in the World Cup finals in history, and according to the Football Association's wishful thinking, as long as the first game won against the little-known Costa Rica team, the Chinese team could see the dawn of the future, in fact, most people thought so at the time.

Under the momentum of various parties, many school leaders regarded this as a rare opportunity for patriotic education, and arranged to adjust the class meeting and physical education class to the afternoon of the game, and turned on the TV set for the whole school to watch the game together.

The students were sweating profusely, but their enthusiasm was still high, every time the Chinese team broke into the penalty area, they would cheer desperately, such as a shot on the field, the applause was even more deafening, the Chinese team fell behind, and the students sang that the Chinese nation came to help the team at the most dangerous time.

Since the beginning of the new century, Chinese have become more enthusiastic about football than ever before, on the one hand, live television has developed quite well, on the other hand, due to the rise of the Internet, fans can more easily access football-related information, no longer have to wait for a weekly newspaper or TV program.

Chinese have always regarded the level of sports as a symbol of national strength and an important way to wrestle with the Western world, but football as the world's number one sport, the performance of the Chinese team has always been so nestish, which has become a big stone pressing on the hearts of the Chinese, and some people even raise it to the height of national dignity and honor to discuss.

After waiting for more than 40 years, the national football team finally rushed out of Asia, linked to the successful bid for the Olympic Games in 01, pushed the sports patriotism complex of Chinese to the top, and the smooth sailing of the qualifiers and the magical coach Milu have made the Chinese people have higher expectations for the World Cup journey.

According to statistics, there were about 40,000 or 50,000 Chinese fans who went to South Korea to watch the game, and the total direct expenditure reached 600 million yuan, but China only got about 20,000 tickets from FIFA, and the three-night and four-day trip of the South Korean football tour group was at least nearly 10,000 yuan, and the high price kept a large number of fans out of the World Cup.

Whether the World Cup is held in Europe or the Americas, in the past, Chinese always had to watch the game all night until dawn, and going to the scene to watch the football was simply a fantasy for Chinese fans, but the 02 World Cup was held in South Korea and Japan, so that the Chinese suddenly received this dream

There are 7 billion Chinese viewers who watch the 02 World Cup through TV, and traditional sports newspapers and periodicals continue to become an important event information channel for fans, although the Internet was not able to do live video broadcast at that time, but a large amount of event information and good interaction have allowed tens of millions of netizens to learn about the World Cup through the Internet.

CCTV became the biggest winner at that time, advertising revenue soared to 450 million yuan, and the annual advertising revenue reached 7 billion.

The brightest star of this World Cup is Ronaldo, who not only scored eight goals alone, but also helped Brazil win the World Cup for the fifth time.

Kahn, Ballack, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Klose, Vieri, David Beckham and others all stood out.

The Chinese stars who reached the finals for the first time are Hao Haidong, Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai and Li Tie.

In the opening match of the World Cup, Zinedine Zidane was sidelined due to injury, and the defending champions France suffered a shocking 1-0 defeat to World Cup newcomers Senegal, causing a big upset, and Papa Boba Diop scored the first goal of the World Cup.

Zinedine Zidane returned from injury in the last game of the group stage, but the French team still lost 0-2 to the Danish team and was eliminated, and the French team became the first defending champion in history to fail to qualify in the first stage and did not score, and after the game, many people had enough reason to believe that the French team bought the Brazilian team to lose in the 1998 World Cup as the host final.

In other group games, Brazil, Germany, England and other strong teams showed good strength, the biggest dark horse in the knockout stage is undoubtedly the South Korean team, beating Italy and Spain respectively to enter the semi-finals, after the World Cup broke out the South Korean team bribery scandal.

The hosts were very impressive on the field, but Ahn Jung-hwan, who scored the winning golden goal in the 1/8 finals, was swept away by Italian Serie A side Perugia after the World Cup due to the overall violent performance with South Korea in the World Cup.

In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, the fastest goal in history was born, only 10 seconds into the first half, Turkey's striker Ilhan Mansis stole at the top of the South Korean team's penalty area from the feet of the opponent's central defender Hong Myung-bo, and the ball rolled to the feet of the follow-up Turkish striker Hakan Suker, who dribbled into the penalty area, facing the South Korean goalkeeper Li Yun who was halfway through the attack with a low flat ball with his left foot, and the ball rolled into the gate from Li Yun's right foot.

Hakan Suker's goal was also the 155th goal of the tournament and the 1,910th in all previous World Cups.

The record was held by Czechoslovakia's Váklaav Massek, who scored a goal in just 15 seconds in the opening 15 seconds of the 1962 World Cup match against Mexico.