FIFA's World Cup 2002 Dream Team

Check, too, FIFA's 2006 Dream Team, the All-time Dream Team (update 2002),
the All-time Dream Team (update 2006, following the 2006 W.Cup),

as well as the UEFA's Dream Team - 2005

The list below should reflect the best players in the 2002 World Cup. Some of these players will be again in action in 2006. Will they again make the top list?

Pls. note: the order in which the players' names are listed, below, reflects the order in which their squads finished the 2002 World Cup.

		Goalkeepers		Defenders

		Oliver Kahn (Germany) Rustu Recber (Turkey)		Roberto Carlos (Brazil) Alpay Ozalan (Turkey) Fernando Hierro (Spain) Hong Myung Bo (S.Korea) Sol Campbell (England)



		Midfielders		Forwards

		Rivaldo (Brazil) Ronaldinho Gaúcho (Brazil) Michael Ballack (Germany) Yoo Sang Chul (S.Korea) Claudio Reyna (U.S.A.)		Ronaldo (Brazil) Miroslav Klose (Germany) Hasan Sas (Turkey) El Hadji Diouf (Senegal)

A special note on Rivaldo (Brazilian midfielder, above-listed): Although Rivaldo is still in activity (at Greece's Olympiakos) and playing his usual talented soccer, the news goes that he will very likely not be called for the Squad that Brazil will be taking to Germany – however hard it may be to believe this. Apparently the Brazilians have such a surplus of good midfielders that the Team manager feels he can dispense with Rivaldo's excellent football!... Let us hope that Rivaldo's experience as a World Cup contender will not be missed by the Team, amid the heat of competition. Can they also dispense with that?!...

July update: Certainly, Rivaldo was missed–especially in a team where his successor, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, was barely noticed. Rivaldo's presence in the team might have allowed Ronaldinho Gaúcho a freedom that he did not have, in 2006...

See clip of Rivaldo & Ronaldinho against England, in 2002

See clip of Rivaldo's best moments

another Rivaldo clip is avaivable on the Soccer Clips links page

But this was not the sole problem w⁄ Brazil-2006...see here

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#	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	#

1	Germany	England	Argentina	Mexico	1
2	Costa Rica	Paraguay	Côte d'Ivoire	Iran	2
3	Poland	Trinidad and Tobago	Serbia and Montenegro	Angola	3
4	Ecuador	Sweden	Netherlands	Portugal	4

#	Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H	#

1	Italy	Brazil	France	Spain	1
2	Ghana	Croatia	Switzerland	Ukraine	2
3	United States	Australia	Korea Republic	Tunisia	3
4	Czech Republic	Japan	Togo	Saudi Arabia	4

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