Soccer World Cup 2002 / Argentina

The Argentine national soccer team at the soccer world cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea :

qualification

In the South American Confederation, the qualification was played in a single large group that included all ten countries. The first four qualified directly and the fifth had to play two playoffs against the winner of the Oceania group.

Argentina started with five wins in a row and won the South America group by a large margin. Argentina, along with France, was the big favorite at the 2002 World Cup.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Argentina	42:15	43
2	Ecuador	23:20	31
3	Brazil	31:17	30th
4th	Paraguay	29:23	30th
5	Uruguay	19:13	27
6th	Colombia	20:15	27
7th	Bolivia	21:33	18th
8th	Peru	14:25	16
9	Venezuela	18:44	16
10	Chile	15:27	12

Argentina	-	Chile	4: 1
Venezuela	-	Argentina	0: 4
Argentina	-	Bolivia	1-0
Colombia	-	Argentina	1: 3
Argentina	-	Ecuador	2-0
Brazil	-	Argentina	3: 1
Argentina	-	Paraguay	1: 1
Peru	-	Argentina	1: 2
Argentina	-	Uruguay	2: 1
Chile	-	Argentina	0: 2
Argentina	-	Venezuela	5-0
Bolivia	-	Argentina	3: 3
Argentina	-	Colombia	3-0
Ecuador	-	Argentina	0: 2
Argentina	-	Brazil	2: 1
Paraguay	-	Argentina	2: 2
Argentina	-	Peru	2-0
Uruguay	-	Argentina	1: 1

Argentine contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	German Burgos	Atlético Madrid	04/16/1969	0	0	0	0	0
12	Pablo Cavallero	Celta Vigo	04/13/1974	3	0	0	0	0
23	Roberto Óscar Bonano	FC Barcelona	01/24/1970	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Roberto Ayala	Valencia CF	04/14/1973	0	0	0	0	0
3	Juan Pablo Sorin	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	05/05/1976	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Mauricio Pochettino	Paris Saint-Germain	02.03.1972	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Walter Samuel	AS Roma	03/23/1978	3	0	1	0	0
13	Diego Placente	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	04/24/1977	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	José Chamot	AC Milan	05/17/1969	1	0	1	0	0
midfield player
5	Matías Almeyda	AC Parma	December 21, 1973	1	0	0	0	0
8th	Javier Zanetti	Inter Milan	08/10/1973	3	0	0	0	0
10	Ariel Ortega	CA River Plate	03/04/1974	3	0	0	0	0
11	Juan Sebastián Verón	Manchester United	03/09/1975	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Diego Simeone	Lazio Rome	04/28/1970	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Claudio Husain	CA River Plate	11/20/1974	0	0	0	0	0
16	Pablo Aimar	Valencia CF	03/11/1979	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Kily González	Valencia CF	08/04/1974	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Marcelo Gallardo	AS Monaco	January 18, 1976	0	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	Claudio Lopez	Lazio Rome	07/17/1974	3	0	0	0	0
9	Gabriel Batistuta	AS Roma	02/01/1969	3	1	1	0	0
17th	Gustavo López	Celta Vigo	04/13/1973	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Hernán Crespo	Lazio Rome	07/05/1975	3	1	0	0	0
21st	Claudio Caniggia	Glasgow Rangers	01/09/1967	0	0	0	0	1
Trainer
	Marcelo Bielsa		07/21/1955

Preliminary round

Argentina had been drawn into the so-called "death group", Group F. There was still no doubt about reaching the round of 16. After all, you were the top favorite for winning the tournament. The country itself was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. The Argentine team promised to do everything in their power to distract their fellow countrymen at home.

It started according to plan with a win against Nigeria. This defeated one of the two main competitors. In the next game there was a loss to arch-rivals England, but nothing was lost yet. A win in the last group game against the underdog Sweden would be enough.

Argentina was warned: France had left the day before. At first there was a curiosity: Claudio Caniggia was shown the red card in the 45th minute on the reserve bench for insulting the referee. Somewhat surprisingly, the Swedes, for whom a draw would be enough, took the lead in the 59th minute. The superior South Americans kept getting stuck in the stable Swedish cover. The equalizer came shortly before the end. Too late, Argentina had left third in the group.

Play Argentina in the preliminary round
date	encounter	Result
2th of June	Argentina - Nigeria	1-0
June 7th	Argentina - England	0: 1
June 12	Sweden - Argentina	1: 1

Final score group F
rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Sweden	4: 3	5
2	England	2: 1	5
3	Argentina	2: 2	4th
4th	Nigeria	1: 3	1