Football World Cup 2002 / Portugal

This article covers the Portuguese national team at the 2002 World Cup .

qualification

With Portugal and the Netherlands, two teams that belonged to the other group of favorites were drawn into qualification group 2. The other teams were Ireland, Estonia, Cyprus and Andorra. Only the first in the group qualified directly. The second had to play two playoffs against the second in another group.

The opening match against Estonia was won as expected, but then an avoidable draw with Ireland followed at home. The foundation for group victory was laid in the next game when the Netherlands were beaten 2-0 away. It didn't really matter that the second leg ended in a draw. When a draw was also reached in the away game against Ireland, which had meanwhile risen to rival, the final round of the World Cup was practically reached. The remaining games were won high, so that thanks to the better goal difference, first place could be defended before the surprise second Ireland.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Portugal	33: 7	24
2	Ireland	23: 5	24
3	Netherlands	30: 9	20th
4th	Estonia	10:26	8th
5	Cyprus	13:31	8th
6th	Andorra	5:36	0

September 3, 2000	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Portugal		1: 3	Rui Costa 15 ', Figo 49', Sá Pinto 57 ', Andres Opera 83'
October 7, 2000	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Ireland		1: 1	Conceição 57 ', Holland 73'
Oct 11, 2000	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	Portugal		0: 2	Conceição 11 ', Pauleta 44'
Feb 28, 2001	Madeira	Portugal	-	Andorra		3-0	Figo 1 ', 49', Pauleta 36 '
March 28, 2001	postage	Portugal	-	Netherlands		2: 2	Pauleta 83 ', Figo 90 + 1' (penalty), Hasselbaink 18 '(penalty), Kluivert 48'
June 2, 2001	Dublin	Ireland	-	Portugal		1: 1	Keane 68 ', Figo 78'
June 6, 2001	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Cyprus		6-0	Pauleta 36 ', 70', Barbosa 55 ', 60', João Pinto 76 ', 81'
Sep 1 2001	Andorra la Vella	Andorra	-	Portugal		1: 7	Nuno Gomes 36 ', 40', 45 ', 90', Pauleta 39 ', Robert Jonás 42', Rui Jorge 45 ', Conceição 58'
September 5, 2001	Nicosia	Cyprus	-	Portugal		1: 3	Konstantinou 25 ', Nuno Gomes 48', Pauleta 64 ', Conceição 71'
October 6, 2001	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Estonia		5-0	João Pinto 30 ', Nuno Gomes 50', 65 ', Pauleta 59', Figo 80 '

Portuguese contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Vítor Baía	FC Porto	10/15/1969	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Nélson	Sporting Lisbon	10/20/1975	0	0	0	0	0
16	Ricardo	Boavista Porto	02/11/1976	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Jorge Costa	Charlton Athletic	10/14/1971	3	0	2	0	0
3	Abel Xavier	Liverpool FC	11/30/1972	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Marco Caneira	Benfica Lisbon	02/09/1979	0	0	0	0	0
5	Fernando Couto	Lazio Rome	08/02/1969	3	0	0	0	0
13	Jorge Andrade	FC Porto	04/09/1978	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Nuno Frechaut	Boavista Porto	09/24/1977	1	0	1	0	0
22nd	Beto	Sporting Lisbon	05/03/1976	3	1	1	1	0
23	Rui Jorge	Sporting Lisbon	03/27/1973	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
6th	Paulo Sousa	Espanyol Barcelona	08/30/1970	0	0	0	0	0
7th	Luís Figo	real Madrid	04/11/1972	3	0	0	0	0
10	Rui Costa	AC Milan	March 29, 1972	2	1	0	0	0
11	Sérgio Conceição	Inter Milan	11/15/1974	3	0	0	0	0
12	Hugo Viana	Sporting Lisbon	01/15/1983	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Pedro Barbosa	Sporting Lisbon	08/06/1970	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Paulo Bento	Sporting Lisbon	06/20/1969	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Nuno Capucho	FC Porto	02/21/1972	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Petit	Boavista Porto	09/25/1976	3	0	1	0	0
striker
8th	João Pinto	Sporting Lisbon	August 19, 1971	3	0	0	0	1
9	Pauleta	Girondins Bordeaux	04/28/1973	3	3	0	0	0
21st	Nuno Gomes	AC Florence	07/05/1976	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Antonio Oliveira		06/10/1952

Portuguese team matches

Portugal were considered the big favorites in Group D. They had previously done well at the European Championship, left the Netherlands behind in qualifying and with Luís Figo a world-class player in the squad.

The euphoria had already evaporated in the first game when they were 3-0 behind against the USA in the early stages. Serious defensive errors were the cause of this unimaginable interim result. Portugal was able to improve the result to 2: 3, but could no longer avoid the defeat.

In the second game Poland was defeated 4-0. Everything was open again. In the last game against hosts South Korea, a draw would be enough. But after just 27 minutes Portugal lost a player by sending them off. Another red card followed in the middle of the second half. Portugal only had nine players left. The Koreans, who played concentrated, had little trouble. Shortly after the second expulsion, the decisive 1-0 was shot. Thus Portugal was eliminated as third in the group.

United States	-	Portugal		3: 2
Portugal	-	Poland		4-0
Portugal	-	South Korea		0: 1