A) France B)Saudi Arabia C) Uruguay
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First Round\n\nGroup A \n31.5.2002  France Senegal 0 - 1 \n1.6.2002  Uruguay Denmark 1 - 2 \n6.6.2002  France Uruguay 0 - 0 \n Denmark Senegal 1 - 1 \n11.6.2002  Senegal Uruguay 3 - 3 \n Denmark France 2 - 0 \n Team G W T L GD P \nDenmark  3 2 1 0 5-2 7 \nSenegal  3 1 2 0 5-4 5 \nUruguay  3 0 2 1 4-5 2 \nFrance  3 0 1 2 0-3 1 \n \n\nIn the first match of World Cup 2002, returning champion France lost to outsider Senegal by 1-0. The success of the African squad caused both chaos and jubilation around the world. The Senegalese government issued a national holiday in respect to the victory. Senegal managed to earn two draws in their following group matches and qualified for the next round. Denmark showed a very ambitious attitude as they beat Uruguay, tied with Senegal and embarrassed France 2-0. The French struggled in all of their matches, dealing with the injury of their star midfielder Zidane. Unlike World Cup 1998, France were hurt by disputable and essentially crucial red cards.\n\nGroup B \n2.6.2002  Spain Slovenia 3 - 1 \n Paraguay South Africa 2 - 2 \n7.6.2002  Spain Paraguay 3 - 1 \n8.6.2002  South Africa Slovenia 1 - 0 \n12.6.2002  Slovenia Paraguay 1 - 3 \n South Africa Spain 2 - 3 \n Team G W T L GD P \nSpain  3 3 0 0 9-4 9 \nParaguay  3 1 1 1 6-6 5 \nSouth Africa  3 1 1 1 5-5 2 \nSlovenia  3 0 0 3 2-7 1 \n \n\nSpain got the top results in this group by achieving three consecutive victories. Regardless of their good record, they did just as much as it needed to qualify. Slovenia put them to the test in their first game, with creative attacking combinations. The Spaniards were lucky when Slovenia was given a red card because the game looked even up to that point. In their following two matches, Spain clinched two unimpressive victories. Slovenia, which had a good run at the Euro 2000, finished with three losses that did not reflect their beautiful attacking style.\n\nGroup C \n3.6.2002  Brazil Turkey 2 - 1 \n4.6.2002  China Costa Rica 0 - 2 \n8.6.2002  Brazil China 4 - 0 \n9.6.2002  Costa Rica Turkey 1 - 1 \n13.6.2002  Costa Rica Brazil 2 - 5 \n Turkey China 3 - 0 \n Team G W T L GD P \nBrazil  3 3 0 0 11-3 9 \nTurkey  3 1 1 1 5-3 4 \nCosta Rica  3 1 1 1 5-6 4 \nChina  3 0 0 3 0-9 0 \n \n\nGroup C finished with Brazil and Turkey sharing the top two spots. Brazil had a hard time against Turkey in the first group match. Considering that Brazil barely qualified for this World Cup, most experts agreed that they will probably not make it very far. Few admitted that Turkey is a formidable opponent who did quite well two years earlier at Euro 2000. Costa Rica nearly made the second round after finishing 1-1 against the Turks. China was just glad to be present at the World Cup and settled for three losses and no goals scored. Their presence at World Cup 2002 was entirely attributed to Serbian tactician Bora Milutinovic who earned them a spot at the tournament for the first time in the history.\n\nGroup D \n4.6.2002  South Korea Poland 2 - 0 \n5.6.2002  USA Portugal 3 - 2 \n10.6.2002  South Korea USA 1 - 1 \n Portugal Poland 4 - 0 \n14.6.2002  Portugal South Korea 0 - 1 \n Poland USA 3 - 1 \n Team G W T L GD P \nSouth Korea  3 2 1 0 3-2 7 \nUSA  3 1 1 1 5-6 4 \nPortugal  3 1 0 2 6-4 3 \nPoland  3 1 0 2 3-7 3 \n \n\nThe second considerable surprise at first stage of World Cup 2002 was Portugal's loss to the United States. The US came out with tenacity against the slower and unaware Portugal. Before the Europeans managed to enforce their game, the score was already 3-0 in favor of USA. Portugal tried to come back but time ran out and the match finished at 3-2. South Korea managed to earn two victories against Poland and Portugal thus qualifying for the next stage. Both of these came with physical play and promiscuous refereeing.\n\nGroup E \n1.6.2002  Ireland Cameroon 1 - 1 \n Germany Saudi Arabia 8 - 0 \n5.6.2002  Germany Ireland 1 - 1 \n6.6.2002  Cameroon Saudi Arabia 1 - 0 \n11.6.2002  Cameroon Germany 0 - 2 \n Saudi Arab
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1) Brazil\n2) Argentina\n3) Germany
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Norway. \nThey are not in the European Union
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sweden\ngreece\nIRAN\nukraine \n\n:)
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1   Japan & Korea\n2    5 times (58, 62, 70, 94, 02)\n3    Germany\n4     32\n5     Spain, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia\n6     50
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1- Zidane wont retire\n2- Brazil\n3- Korea will get to the second round
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1) france, italy, austria, leichtenstien, and germany\n2) argentina, chile, paraguay, brazil\n3) they're on the world's poles
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1. Portugal\n2. Mexico
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Brazil. Croatia, Japan, and Australia are going to be well prepared and will complicate things for them. Besides, Brazil just seems way too good.
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Kwame i love u for  your football questions and knowledge but u left out Ghana in your equation surely they deserve to be there\n1) Germany\n2) Argentina\n3) France\n4) Brazil\n5) Ghana\n6) Portugal\n7) Spain\n8) Mexico\n9) England\n10) Ecuador
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Brazil\nFrance\nEngland
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portugal, germany, spain, brazil
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A-Germany\nB-England\nC-Argentina\nD-Portugal\nE-Italy\nF-Brazil\nG-Switzerland(not sure)\nH-Spain
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Germany\nItaly\nand other
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1. u.s.a.\n2. italy\n3. france\n4. brazil\n5. spain\n6. mexico\n7. sweden\n8. germany\n9. austria\n10. russia
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1st: Czech Republic\n2nd: Italy
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Group A - Germany, Ecuador\nGroup B - England, Sweden\nGroup C - Argentina, Netherlands\nGroup D - Portugal, Mexico\nGroup E - Italy, Ghana\nGroup F - Brazil, Australia\nGroup G - France, Switzerland\nGroup H - Spain, Ukraine