South Korea

AET

2 : 1

vs

HT 0 : 1

FT 1 : 1

Italy

Kick Off at 11:30 (GMT) on 18th June, 2002
The referee for this match is Byron Moreno
This match had attendance of 38588 fans
This is a match in World Cup - World Cup 1/8 finals, 1/8, Season 2002

South Korea
Goals
Seol (88')
Ahn (117')
Cards
Kim (17')
Song (80')
Lee (99')
Choi (115')

Italy
Goals
Vieri (18')
Cards
Coco (4')
Totti (22')
Tommasi (55')
Zanetti (60')
Totti (103')

Full lineups: South Korea vs Italy

South Korea

Starting XI

1. Woon-Jae Lee
3. Myung-Bo Hong
5. Nam-Il Kim
4. Tae-Young Kim
7. Chong-Gug Song
21. Ji-Sung Park
8. Sang-Chul Yoo
12. Young-Pyo Lee
11. Jung-Hwan Ahn
9. Ki-Hyeon Seol
20. Jin-Cheul Choi

Substitutes

Young-Min Hyun
Sung-Yong Choi
Tae-Uk Choi
Byung-Ji Kim
Eul-Yong Lee
Chun-Soo Lee
Min-Sung Lee
22. Du-Ri Cha
Jong-Hwan Yoon
15. Sun-Hong Hwang
Eun-Sung Choi
Yong-Soo Choi

Coach

Guus Hiddink

Italy

Starting XI

1. Gianluigi Buffon
4. Francesco Coco
2. Christian Panucci
3. Paolo Maldini
15. Mark Iuliano
19. Gianluca Zambrotta
6. Cristiano Zanetti
17. Damiano Tommasi
10. Francesco Totti
7. Alessandro Del Piero
21. Christian Vieri

Substitutes

8. Gennaro Gattuso
9. Filippo Inzaghi
Cristiano Doni
Christian Abbiati
Alessandro Nesta
Luigi Di Biagio
16. Angelo Di Livio
Marco Delvecchio
Vincenzo Montella
Francesco Toldo
23. Marco Materazzi

Coach

Giovanni Trapattoni

242 Votes

South Korea vs Italy
Team Performance

43 Comments

Top Comments

CroatiaFan123 11 years ago

Arsenal, Croatia 66 2775

Such a fixed game!

MrGoooool 11 years ago

Liverpool, Mexico 27 580

couldn't pick the ref as man of the match

abcABCbarca 11 years ago

Barcelona, Armenia 0 219

Korea is pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor team

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Sabiol 9 years ago

Argentina 0 646

This game and the other one vs spain in quarterfinal were the biggest joke i ever saw...

yongjp94 9 years ago Edited

Tottenham Hotspur 0 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL29w5z3jM0

This should be in place of the video posted here. It is much more fair to both Italy and Korea.
You can see Italy going in extremely deep with tackles, pushing and roughing up players, hitting a Korean player's face (Coco broke his nose and he had to wear a mask for the rest of the tournament), and missing chances.

Totti is seen using elbows, Coco uses breaks a player's nose and keeps on trying extremely deep tackles that don't touch the ball. If you watch the video, you can see that Italian players are given fair foul advantages throughout the game. Even the part where the Korean player is elbowing Del Pierro, if you watch the real highlights, you see that Del Pierro was the one who was pulling on his shirt and the player has a bloody nose..

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2017-09-14 08:16:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL29w5z3jM0

this should be in place of the video posted here. It is much more fair to both Italy and Korea.
You can see Italy going in extremely deep with tackles, pushing and roughing up players, hitting a Korean player's face (Coco broke his nose and he had to wear a mask for the rest of the tournament), and missing chances. Italy definitely was the team that was creating aggressive tension throughout the game. Korean players, after their player's nose broke, became tired of Italy's aggressiveness and started to fight back. The video posted on Fotmob deliberately edited only the parts where Korean players fought back. This video should be taken down. It's malicious propaganda against Korean soccer.

2017-09-14 08:16:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL29w5z3jM0

This should be in place of the video posted here. It is much more fair to both Italy and Korea.
You can see Italy going in extremely deep with tackles, pushing and roughing up players, hitting a Korean player's face (Coco broke his nose and he had to wear a mask for the rest of the tournament), and missing chances.

Totti is seen using elbows, Coco uses breaks a player's nose and keeps on trying extremely deep tackles that don't touch the ball. If you watch the video, you can see that Italian players are given fair foul advantages throughout the game.

yongjp94 9 years ago

Tottenham Hotspur 0 18

Italy definitely was the team that was creating aggressive tension throughout the game. Korean players, after the Italian's extreme aggression, became tired and started to fight back.

The video posted on Fotmob deliberately edited only the parts where Korean players fought back. This video should be taken down. It's malicious propaganda against Korean soccer. Please don't fall for this.

yongjp94 9 years ago

Tottenham Hotspur 0 18

Even Totti's Red was caused by a second yellow after a clear dive that even the commentators call out before the ref makes a call. Italy was playing much dirtier than the Koreans, and whoever made this video that was posted on here should be ashamed of himself. Italy was constantly playing extremely rough, and Coco deserved what he got to be honest... He was in the center of aggression throughout the whole game until he was injured.

During overtime, Korea dominated the match because the players had more energy left compared to the Italians. Italy brought this game upon themselves. I hope that they can stop being sore about this loss since they won the World Cup in the following years.

Drbutterface 9 years ago

Roma, Italy 2 522

Your statements are an offense to any football fan and to the game itself. Shame on you.

yongjp94 9 years ago

Tottenham Hotspur 0 18

this video is deliberately edited by an Italian to make South Korea look bad. You can easily tell even from the intro. As a person who watched the entire match from start to finish, the refs did make bad calls, but Italy played just as dirty as SK, injuring several South Korean players. It was a fair game, and wrong calls happen. That's football. This South Korean team was actually very good with Guus Hiddink as the manager. Ji Sung Park went on to become one of legends at both PSV and Manchester United. Young Pyo Lee going on to become a regular full back for Tottenham Hotspur and Borussia Dortmund.

umpalumpa 10 years ago

Inter 0 4

Arbitro Moreno, che gli passa sopra un treno.... Arbitro Moreno, con il portafoglio pieno

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zebragun 10 years ago Edited

Arsenal, South Korea 0 327

I've watched that game live as a kid. No matter how many times I watch the full game again, I see no big problem with both sides playing rough. Referee decisions could've been on our favor but hey, we were the host country back then. If ref decisions like this happened during bigger games like Italy vs Germany or Italy vs Spain, it wouldn't have been controversial at all. Admit it. Some Italians are just butthurt about the fact they lost to weaker team like us trying to find excuses. The only time I admit there was a bribery was during the Spain vs Korea. With all my heart I want to apologize to Spaniards for what has happened during that game. But this one? I am least bit sorry about it :P

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2017-03-01 03:41:06

I've watched that game live as a kid. No matter how many times I watch the full again, I see no big problem with both sides playing rough. Referee decisions could've been on our favor but hey, we were the host country back then. If ref decisions like this happened during bigger games like Italy vs Germany or Italy vs Spain, it wouldn't have been controversial at all. Admit it. Some Italians are just butthurt about the fact they lost to weaker tea like us trying to find excuses. The only time I admit there was a bribery was during the Spain vs Korea. With all my heart I want to apologize to Spaniards for what has happened during that game. But this one? I am least bit sorry about it :P

2017-03-01 03:41:06

I've watched that game live as a kid. No matter how many times I watch the full game again, I see no big problem with both sides playing rough. Referee decisions could've been on our favor but hey, we were the host country back then. If ref decisions like this happened during bigger games like Italy vs Germany or Italy vs Spain, it wouldn't have been controversial at all. Admit it. Some Italians are just butthurt about the fact they lost to weaker tea like us trying to find excuses. The only time I admit there was a bribery was during the Spain vs Korea. With all my heart I want to apologize to Spaniards for what has happened during that game. But this one? I am least bit sorry about it :P

DudeWithTheHats 10 years ago

Paris Saint-Germain, Denmark 0 104

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not

zebragun 10 years ago Edited

Arsenal, South Korea 0 327

No seriously. This is a propoganda video. Plz people, if you're still unsure, try watch the whole f**king game. Italy vs Korea just a rough game pulled out from both. Italy committed almost the same amount of fouls as we did.. Just go check it out and stop behaving like brainwashed airheads. Bribery in Korea vs Italy? Sorry folks but no.

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2017-03-01 12:51:06

No seriously. This is a propoganda video. Plz people, if you're still unsure, try watch the whole f**king game. Italy vs Korea just a rough game pulled out from both. Italy committed almost the same amount of fouls as we did.. Just go check it out and stop behaving like brainwashed airheads. Bribery in Korea vs Italy? No folks. Seriously watch the whole game and then come back to me.

fifiloka97 10 years ago

Barcelona, Malaysia 0 17

Dude, you just went full retard.

zebragun 10 years ago

Arsenal, South Korea 0 327

@fifiloka97 nice self introduction. This is just a foul compilation of Korea. I suggest you watch the whole game and then we can talk after.

ares11 10 years ago Edited

0 200

dude it was so obvious that referee was on koreans side all time in both spain and italy game

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2017-03-01 15:29:47

dude it was so obvious that referee wsa on koreans side all time in both spain and italy games

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vanfootballer 10 years ago

Manchester United, England 0 1

Everyone in the world know how dirty Italian football play is..... I think Korea did well to counteract the dirty plays. However, the ref did make some miscalls but that is part of the soccer, and you know those calls are inevitable if you are a soccer player.

quikzyyy 10 years ago

Arsenal 430 9035

are u blind?

sijampank 10 years ago

AC Milan, Indonesia 0 2

Unfortunately England did'nt meet the Korean in that event. Imagine what Hooligans do in that Korean land

binjai 10 years ago

0 1223

what a disgrace to the WORLD CUP BLACK history..The sucker FIFA(management, refrees etc) and KOREA goverment or Football association scandal.. Felt sorry for italy n spain. Also Japan also handling the same event at the same time, but there is NO such scandal. From there you can see how dirty is korean (who is JAPAN wannabe in each aspect) but we all can see how clean and professional and the clean pure heart the japanese are. RESPECT TO JAPAN

dlflfud 10 years ago Edited

Manchester United, South Korea 0 13

Japan what u guys have done to other asia countries, u guys should be shame, no APOLOGIES unlike German, , no wonder the why u guys terrible at soccer.

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2017-02-28 11:08:19

Ni PORn Japan what u guys have done to other asia countries, u guys should be shame, no APOLOGIES unlike German, , no wonder the why u guys terrible at soccer.

zebragun 10 years ago Edited

Arsenal, South Korea 0 327

Koreans look up to Japanese? LOL in your dreams mate. Stop living in the 1980s

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2017-03-01 03:43:10

Koreans look up to Japanese? LOL in your dreams mate. Its not 1980s anymore.

2017-03-01 03:43:10

Koreans look up to Japanese? LOL in your dreams mate. Stop living in the 1980s anymore.

Neeskens 10 years ago

Netherlands 1 6

blah blah blah

Tsulex 10 years ago

Chelsea, Georgia 0 63

Guus Hiddink, you are GENIUS!

Adelmg6 10 years ago

Juventus, Italy 0 9

these 3 games ruined football for me!

8Lampard8 10 years ago

Chelsea, Singapore 0 36

I feel like watching shaolin soccer movie at their first match

expertfootball11 10 years ago

Real Madrid, France 64 2839

Despicable game.

Seb 11 years ago

Hahahaha, Golden Goal? Is this FIFA?

LORDSTURRIDGE 10 years ago

Liverpool 0 300

2002 bitch

MrGoooool 11 years ago

Liverpool, Mexico 27 580

couldn't pick the ref as man of the match

Tomasso 11 years ago

this ugly tackling korean + shitty ref = lucky wins

Invincible14 11 years ago

Real Madrid, Spain 0 62

f_cking disgrace.

citizen 11 years ago

footyroom please put up italy vs germany euro 2012 in legendary matches!!

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muzzay1130 11 years ago Edited

Manchester United, South Korea 1 1004

Good old game for South Korea with the young Park Ji sung and Ahn the legends!

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2015-07-30 21:18:43

Good old game for South Korea with Park Ji sung and Ahn the legends!

LORDSTURRIDGE 10 years ago

Liverpool 0 300

park ji sung is the legend but ahn jung hwan is shite. also guus hiddink. although hes a succesful manager, hard to say it. shite

asuwlau 11 years ago

i hate korea That day

zammil 11 years ago

good old game :)

SuperMilan 11 years ago

AC Milan, Albania 0 958

BEST GAME! My cousin was literally crying when they sent out Totti. Totti Totti oooooo Totti Totti :P

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