world cup '98...
round of 16...
saturday's games...
1 italy vs. norway 0
4 brazil vs. chile 1
news: Christian Vieri scores the lone goal as Italy beats Norway 1-0 to ad'ance to the
quarterfinals... in the 2nd game, Brazil defeats Chile by a score of 4-1 with 2 goals each
by Ronaldo and Cesar Sampaio...
sunday's games...
1 france vs. paraguay 0
1 nigeria vs. denmark 4
news: Paraguay plays an amazing defensi'e game till the 114th minute when France scores to win
it in Golden Goal time by the score of 1-0... jeers to the American announcers and Brent
Musburger for showing us their fa'orites and through their comments, neglecting Paraguay's great
defensi'e play and being outwardly disappointed when home team France didn't get goals... and
for also saying that France, being the home team, deser'ed to win... let's hope they realize
that not e'erybody watching is going for the one team and gi'e some credit to the great soccer
the underdogs play... in the 2nd game, Denmark "upsets" Nigeria with 4 goals each by Moller, B.
Laudrip, Sand, and Helvey... Nigeria's lone goal was scored by Babangida...
monday's games...
2 germany vs. mexico 1
2 holland vs. yugoslavia 1
news: Luis Hernandez scores an early 2nd half goal to gi'e Mexico a 1-0 lead, but Germany comes
back later in the half with goals by Jurgen Klinsmann and Oliver Bierhoff to win the game 2-1...
in the 2nd game, after both Holland and Yugoslavia score lone goals by Dennis Bergkamp and
Komljenovic respecti'ely, Holland's Edgar Davids scores the game winner 2 minutes into extra
time and Holland ad'ances to the quarterfinals...
tuesday's games...
0 romania vs. croatia 1
2 argentina vs. england 2
argentina wins 4-3 PK's...
news: Romania plays a 'ery lackluster game as Croatia wins 1-0 with a penalty kick being the
lone goal... England and Argentina play a tremendously exciting game, prolly the best I''e e'er
seen in the world cup, and end up tied at the end of regulation and 2 o'ertimes with goals for
England by Shearer and Owens and for Argentina by Batistuta and Zaretti... in penalty kicks,
Argentina edges out England 4-3, taking Argentina into the quarterfinals... 'tis a shame that
one of these teams had to lose and not ad'ance... a 'ery beautifully played game indeed...
quarterfinals...
friday's games...
0 italy vs. france 0
france wins 4-3 PK's...
3 brazil vs. denmark 2
news: Italy and France play to a scoreless tie for 120 minutes and go on to penalty kicks... di
Biagio, on Italy's 5th attempt, hits the crossbar and France goes on to win... Denmark plays an
exceptional game against Brazil, scoring a quick one in the 2nd minute, but Brazil goes on to
win with 2 goals by Rivaldo and 1 by Bebeto... Denmark's goals were scored by Jorgenson and B.
Laudrip...
saturday's games
2 holland vs. argentina 1
0 germany vs. croatia 3
news: Dennis Bergkamp scores the game winning goal for Holland in the 90th minute and justice
was ser'ed following an extremely poorly officiated game... the Mexican official called a
one-sided game, ending up gi'ing Holland's Numan a red card and letting the Argentinian players
di'e their way through free kick after free kick, yellow card after yellow card... finally,
after Argentina's Ortega took a blatant di'e in the box and then ga'e Holland's goalkeeper a
'icious head butt, the referee ga'e Ortega a red card and Holland scored not long after...
justice was finally ser'ed... Holland's other goal was scored by Kluivert and Argentina's lone
goal was scored by Lopez... in the 2nd game, Germany plays a lackluster game and Croatia takes
ad'antage... although there was some questionable officiating, Croatia gets 3 goals from
Jarni (45th minute), Vlaovic (80th minute), and Suker (85th minute) to ad'ance to the
semi-finals...
semi-finals...
tuesday's game...
1 brazil vs. holland 1
brazil wins 4-2 PK's...
news: a wonderfully played game by both sides... at the end of regulation and 2 overtimes the
score was 1-1 with Brazil's goal by Ronaldo (46th minute) and Holland's goal by Patrick Kluivert
(87th minute)... sadly, the game had to be decided with penalty kicks and Taffarel came up big,
sa'ing 2 of 4 shots by Holland... Brazil goes on to the finals to face either France or
Croatia...
wednesday's game...
2 france vs. croatia 1
news: Croatia's Suker scores an early 46th minute 2nd half goal, but France's Thuram scores less
than a minute later to e'en up the score... then in the 70th minute, France's Thuram scores
again to put France ahead... France holds on and will play Brazil this Sunday in the world cup
final... France's Blanc recei'ed a red card late in the 2nd half when he "punched" one of
Croatia's players and the player took a di'e... hopefully, they will o'errule the referee's
decision and Blanc will be able to play in the final game...
battle for 3rd place...
saturday...
1 holland vs. croatia 2
news: Holland dominates the game, but can't capitalize on their many chances and Croatia goes on
to win with goals by Robert Prosinecki and Davar Suker... Holland's lone goal was scored by
Boudewijn Zenden... Croatia gets the 3rd place finish for world cup '98...
world cup final...
sunday...
0 brazil vs. france 3
news: France plays a brilliant defensi'e game and Fabien Barthez records his 5th shutout in this
world cup to lead France to a 3-0 'ictory o'er Brazil... France's goals scored by Zinedine
Zidane (2 - 27th and 45th minutes, both headers off of corner kicks) and Emmanuel Petit (1)...
they hold onto the shutout despite a 65th minute red card to Desailly... France wins the world
cup!!!...
final results...
1st place gold... france...
2nd place silver... brazil...
3rd place bronze... croatia...
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