Soccer World Cup 2002 / United States

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

qualification

As expected, the USA qualified for the 2002 World Cup. At the beginning of the second round they had problems against Guatemala and Costa Rica, but were still able to qualify first for the finals.

In the final round you also had a hard time with supposedly small opponents, but you could still qualify as third-placed.

Intermediate round:

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	14: 3	11
2	Costa Rica	9: 6	10
2	Guatemala	9: 6	10
4th	Barbados	3:20	3

Guatemala	-	United States	1: 1
Costa Rica	-	United States	2: 1
United States	-	Barbados	7-0
United States	-	Guatemala	1-0
United States	-	Costa Rica	0-0
Barbados	-	United States	0: 4

Finals:

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Costa Rica	17: 7	23
2	Mexico	16: 9	17th
3	United States	11: 8	17th
4th	Honduras	17:17	14th
5	Jamaica	7:14	8th
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	5:18	5

United States	-	Mexico	2-0
Honduras	-	United States	1: 2
United States	-	Costa Rica	1-0
Jamaica	-	United States	0-0
United States	-	Trinidad / Tobago	2-0
Mexico	-	United States	1-0
United States	-	Honduras	2: 3
Costa Rica	-	United States	2-0
United States	-	Jamaica	2: 1
Trinidad / Tobago	-	United States	0-0

American contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Brad Friedel	Blackburn Rovers	05/18/1971	5	0	1	0	0
18th	Kasey Keller	Tottenham Hotspur	11/29/1969	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Tony Meola	Kansas City Wizards	02/21/1969	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Frankie Hejduk	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	08/05/1974	4th	0	2	0	0
3	Gregg Berhalter	Crystal Palace	08/01/1973	2	0	2	0	0
6th	David Regis	FC Metz	12/02/1968	5	0	0	0	0
12	Jeff Agoos	San Jose Earthquakes	05/02/1968	3	0	1	0	0
14th	Steven Cherundolo	Hannover 96	02/19/1979	0	0	0	0	0
16	Carlos Llamosa	New England Revolution	06/30/1969	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Tony Sanneh	1. FC Nuremberg	06/01/1971	5	0	0	0	0
23	Eddie Pope	DC United	December 24, 1973	5	0	2	0	0
midfield player
4th	Pablo Mastroeni	Colorado Rapids	08/29/1976	3	0	2	0	0
5	John O'Brien	Ajax Amsterdam	08/29/1977	5	1	0	0	0
7th	Eddie Lewis	Fulham FC	05/17/1974	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Earnie Stewart	NAC Breda	03/28/1969	4th	0	0	0	0
10	Claudio Reyna	Sunderland AFC	07/20/1973	4th	0	1	0	0
11	Clint Mathis	NY / NJ Metro Stars	11/25/1976	3	1	0	0	0
17th	DaMarcus Beasley	Chicago Fire	05/24/1982	3	0	1	0	0
striker
9	Joe-Max Moore	Everton FC	02/23/1971	2	0	0	0	0
13	Cobi Jones	Los Angeles Galaxy	06/16/1970	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Josh Wolff	Chicago Fire	02/25/1977	2	0	1	0	0
20th	Brian McBride	Columbus crew	06/19/1972	5	2	0	0	0
21st	Landon Donovan	San Jose Earthquakes	03/04/1982	5	2	0	0	0
Trainer
	Bruce Arena		09/21/1951

US team games

Preliminary round

In the first game, the favored Portuguese were beaten 3-2. After a somewhat lucky 3-0 lead, the victory was saved just over time. In the third game there was a straight defeat against the already eliminated Poland. The Polish team, which had previously been clearly beaten 4-0 by Portugal, played like unleashed and almost prevented the round of 16, which was believed to be safe. But since South Korea beat Portugal, it was enough for the USA to take second place.

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

Finals

The opponent in the round of 16 was Mexico, of all places. Somewhat surprisingly, the USA prevailed 2-0 in this prestigious duel.

The final destination was the quarter-finals. Although the Americans were far superior in the field and had better chances to score, Germany won 1-0. Oliver Kahn was once again the guarantee for the narrow victory .

Mexico	-	United States	0: 2
Germany	-	United States	1-0