I watched the Italy v Korea game in Asia. I was pretty drunk by the end of it so my memory’s a bit hazy but about half the bar was Italians and I’ve never seen such angry people in my life. Learnt a lot of Italian swear words that day.
As Asian we all felt its BS when watching Portugal get knocked out. The Italy game was so bad even Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles can see clearly it's BS Hope it never happens again. Are u reading this Qatar?
Qatar will be the next world champion. They will beat every team by at least 5-0. And if anyone is going to say anything against it, they will land in a forced labor camp in Qatar to dismantle the stadiums after the world cup.
Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc. From Japan.
I had no idea this world cup was this crazy, I was 12 at the time and was in school for most of it so I only heard the scores. What I think is way more incredible is the fact that Buffon is still playing football😅 20 years later
I was there in 2002. The only good thing that came out of it was that it brought the country together supporting the Red Devils. Every game Korea played had decisions that went their way, allowing them to get through the top four. I remember, years later, Korea tried to play the phi al game against Australia using elbows and dangerous tackles. The Australian team took it as a green light to play the same way and five Koreans were stretched off the pitch.
I remember this world cup. I don't think I have seen a more terrible world cup in my life. Against Portugal, Italy and Spain, I couldn't believe what I was seeing...
well it was designed this way from the beginning of the draw. Not forget the 2-0 vs Poland first victim (?). Of all EU team Portugal, Italy and Spain are the easiest ones to be cheated compare to EN, GE , Bra , FRance etc..They need to do it all the way but in ways to avoid to cheat bigger countries, otherwise scandals can get out of their control. You can see this whole cheating stop once blatter was confronted by public anger after the Spain game. But by that time, korean mafia got what they want already, being in the semi-finals
Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc. From Japan.
Not to mention that Moreno shouldnt have even officiated the italy - korea match in the first place. As we all know Moreno is from Ecuador and italy beat Ecuador 2-0 in the group stage at this wc so for him to be a referee here would be a conflict of interest.
Also, as far as I know, the FIFA just said something along the line of "he did his job and there were no irregularities" more or less, just before "randomly" kicking him out the list of referee at the first occasion (a someway suspicious match in his home country among low level teams, less than a year after the World Cup). Last time I checked this guy was arrested (like in 2010) for trafficking cocaine between Ecuador and USA. He also half-admitted to have received money but never said if it was from korean federation or from someone involved with bets or from someone else. 2002 was a shitty edition of the World Cup. Italy had one of the most competitive teams back then. I would have greatly enjoyed the match Italy-Spain.
That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? How far does that logic go back? Should South Korea never get any German referees anymore because they beat them in 2018? Most refs are actually professionals and their careers depend on doing their job right. In most sports, it's completely normal for a ref to be from one of the competing countries, and it rarely leads to controversy.
France beat Uruguay with an Argentine referee in 2018, and Croatia beat Denmark with that same referee, despite them having beaten Argentina previously. France then got a Uruguayan ref in the semis and still won.
@@BrianStorm742 As said in my previous comment (which was already a reply so you may have missed it) he was corrupted. He took money for that. That's the only reason why he shouldn't have been put in lead of *any* match as a referee. He judged unfairly 3 or 4 matches during that World Cup. It's not a matter of who played against who before, which is not expected to be a problem among pro referees (even if in rare cases some of them seem to forget about it). It's a specific problem occourred whith that specific referee in that specific edition of the Championship.
@@BrianStorm742 I am not saying that it shouldn't be an issue, especially with professional legitimate refs but in order to completely eliminate and prevent all doubts from having a clean officiating match it's better to put a ref with no conflict of interest. If your theory is 100 percent fool proof like you claim then you would even see refs officiate matches between teams that are the nationality of one of the teams in action but as we all know we never see that, even if the refs are 100 percent clean and legitimate. For example, like putting an argentine ref in a match between Argentina and Germany. It's not about whether a ref is corrupt or not. It's about getting rid of all doubts and making sure there isn't any favoritism in play as that could also leave room for an appeal to be made.
They already bought the next world cup. They will most likely get to the ko phase because FIFA likes money and Quatar has a lot of oil barons who can give them their money
Italy won next World Cup in 2006, Spain won next next one in 2010, German won next next next in 2014, Portugal won the Europe cup in 2016. Every team against Korea won something
I remember yelling at my TV when Spain's goal was called "out of bounds." I was absolutely livid and I'm not even from España haha. I knew then that this game was rigged.
@@naville82 That's why I said I agree with Spain getting robbed. Portugal definitely no, and Italy there were dirty play from both sides so overall I see it as fair.
@@gnsgml11 fair play. Its a shame cause that Spain squad could of easily made the final because Germanys team were beatable that tournament. Spain had an insane team that yr.
In al fairness, the spanish penalty miss would be justified years later as Sevilla GK was 4 feet out of his line to stop every penalty benfica took in the europa league final.
I am Italian. The defeat in the 2022 World Cup was truly bitter. The decisions of the referee Moreno were really unfair. I hope these things never happen again in football. Today in the team I am a fan of, Napoli, there is a very good Korean player, Kim Min jae. He is an honest and humble player who is doing very well in Napoli as a defender, despite having been with this team for less than two months. He has already scored 3 goals and as a defender he is really a wall. The fault in 2002 was, not of the players, but of the organizers, Fifa and Moreno
How did Korea buy the referee when they received 4 yellow cards in this match? For the Italians to deny reality after defeat. It is true that there were many misjudgments, but it is wrong to claim that Korea's victory is simply corruption. Moreover, Italy also benefited from the misjudgment.
@@e4311 did you even watch the match? it was pretty obvious. and it means nothing that they got 4 yellow cards. That’s a very meaningless offense, especially since if you are a corrupt referee you can give 1 yellow card and the player stays. They never got booked twice even though they should have in multiple instances. Especially when you set the precedent of sending off a player for “diving” in the box when you’re in the center of the field.
man I remember watching italy - korea as a kid and being dismayed at how obviously crooked moreno was, my little and naive self was livid and shocked that such a travesty could slide at an international competition, and it was after they avenged us and spain (another team I liked) that I took a shine to germany's national team and started rooting for them when they weren't playing us
@@thepigproductivity I know Maldini getting kicked in the head wasn’t a red card? Tommasi’s goal that was called off sides aaa clearly wrong which would have ended Korea and put Italy up 2-0. Korea didn’t score until 88th minute to force extra time. So much bs went on in this game and the game against Portugal and Spain it’s sickening.
80% of ppl who watch World cup are from africa and europe (Same time zone) and of course S america, so they get matches in middle of day. No one in asia care and ppl dont care their teams
Amazing story that needed to be told. The beautiful sport the whole world loves is tainted by corrupt and disgraceful managers, and it has been like that for decades.
...except there's no evidence to back any of this "cheating" claim up. So some people are just sore about some games from 20 years ago, and putting a bias video against South Korea's football team, which imo was in its best form even before the World Cup.
Spain got away with a literal handball in the penalty box at the Euros; England got a non-existent penalty to reach the final. Argentina got 5 penalties in the 2022 WC. Germany didn’t receive 2 red cards in the 2014 final. Real Madrid have been winning their UCLs with offside goals and refereeing help, same with Barcelona. “B-but Korea are the biggest cheats in football” 🤡
As a Portugal fan, all i remember from the 2002, was the very suspicious change from Humberto Coelho as coach (who led the team on the euro 2000 campaign) to oliveira, which was a well connected individual and all the News from all night partying from the team in the hotel in korea. To be fair the 2002 campaign was so poor i didnt even remember the bad refereeing.
I remember seeing a "Goodbye Figo" sign on the stand in the KOR-POR match after the final whistle, surely the most memorable moment of that world cup for me. He won the Ballon Dor the year before didnt he?
Fun fact: In the 1954 World Cup They had lost two matches against Turkey (7-0) and Hungary (9-0) but they couldn't go to the match against West Germany and go last in the group
are you talking about Korea? I mean they did just get finished fighting a civil war from 1950-1953 so i'm not really surprised that they didn't have a good football team...
Even funnier fact, Turkey qualified in 50' but the team didn't have the budget to travel to the tournament in Brazil. So 54' and 2002 are our only WC adventures.
Korea spent couple of weeks on the road to the world cup stadium from the opposite part of planet. There were no nonstop planes and many trains and buses. They played the next day after they arrived. What do you expect?
@@attilaseyfullah8522 fun fact my country was included in a world cup and olympic for football But poverty and no boots leads us to not even participate on the tournaments and till date we lack fukingly in football
They cheated in 2006 against Australia though. It's funny how people cry about it when Italy gets kicked out unfairly, but when they knock out other teams unfairly it's crickets. The hypocrisy around 2002 is nothing short of astonishing, apparently cheating is only a problem when it hurts the big teams, not all those times it helps them.
@@frankvandorp2059 🤡🤡🤡, they cheated Grosso was fouled in the box. They didn’t do anything remotely close to what the Koreans were doing to them in 2002.
@@ItalianStallion01 It was a blatant dive and Italy cheated its way into the quarter finals. It's pathetic and hypocritical how Italians will whine about Korea cheating against them but don't even have the balls to admit that they themselves cheated against Australia.
@@frankvandorp2059 What cheated? No one paid off any ref against Australia 🤡, Grosso was fouled and tripped in the box it’s called a penalty. Totti took it and smashed it home. What happened to the Italians, Portuguese, and Spanish is a disgrace. That was easily Italys WC to take.
@@ItalianStallion01 There is as much evidence that Korea paid off the ref against Italy, as there is evidence that Italy paid off the ref against Australia. That is, none. And any honest person with eyes knows Grosso dived there. To deny that you need to be either utterly delusional or a biased Italian, most likely both. You complain when other teams cheat but you deny it when your own team does it, a clear sign of someone who never matured beyond the age of 9.
LIke world cup in Qatar. Paying Argentina the cup with oil money and refs that give them 10 fake pens everytime the diva to Di-Maria throwed himself to the ground.
This clown and FIFA robbed Italy of a WC, that team was so stacked and loaded they would have easily beaten Spain and Germany and would have taken care of a Brazil to enact revenge from 1994. That 2002 team was better than the 2006 WC team and they left Baggio at home which was a mistake.
Yes, all Japanese think that way. Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc.
@@snakevenom39 I'm Italian and one thing we're good at is admitting when someone's out of line or one of our own acts disrespectfully. We admire the same traits in others so it's good for you to say so. Pity I can't say that for my Irish side, 🤷🏻♂️ they're not always the most graceful when it comes to these. things.
Idt this is easy to happen again or this is something all asian countries do. Heck, even South Korean national team grow a lot after that and now they have great players like Son.
@@Abdullah-rx2xq i have to remind you macht like the european semis england-denmark, basicly the England goal was a unexistent penalty while TWO balls where at the same time in the area and this is only an example
I don’t think Qatar will give a $hit about their own team. I mean their group is stacked as hell. For them, the tournament is money. I’m more worried about Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Powers Qatar is sandwiched in-between. If Soccer is to grow in the Middle East, those two Caliphates more than likely want their teams to do good. This raises the question for me, does England, The US, and Wales then have to have a blood bath for 2nd? There’s a lot that could happen, but I’m expecting the big population nations to go far along with either Iran or Saudi Arabia. It’s so unlikely Qatar will make themselves the “bad guys” rigging this. One of the other Muslim powers will likely be. My money is on Saudi Arabia shocking the group of Poland, Mexico, and Argentina. But Iran could also make it out. They’ve never done that. There’s no way Qatar actually does this for themselves. Except the money part. Which now that I mention it, makes me more worried for UAE vs Australia. In fact, the worst case scenario, all the Muslim Nations do well
Italy - South Kora was a nasty game and the referee completely off the rails, maybe the worst referee of all world cup games and yes, possibly partisan But your representation is exaggerated, especially the part about bloodthirsty Koreans violently rough up these lovely little Italian schoolboys who were send to the world cup. Like Totti, Gattuso, Vieri and Materazzi. Within the first 25 minutes the Koreans already had Italian ellbows and arms on their faces, all purposefully and early on they started giving it back. Vieri alone had done plenty of action to be send off during the game easily. The referee overlooked obvious violent fouls on both sides, with the Koreans being more obvious, the Italians more devious. The bloody head-ingury of Coco you are showing is the result of getting the arms of one Korean and one team mate in it´s face, while he is pushing the Korean away. Obviously no harm intended. Also the penalty for Korea is well documented. The Panucci obviously grabs Seol and brings him to the ground. This is a give or take penalty. But the penalty situation of Totti too, because the korean actually played the ball and Totti is going into him for full contact. Maybe not a yellow card though... If you want to check the highlights of the game without any folkloric hyped bias and being butt-hurt for being kicked out by south korea for the last 20 years: th-cam.com/video/VYZFrWdKSxI/w-d-xo.html
Yeah Korea won fair and square but italians will believe what they want to believe even after 20 years. They don’t even know they literally broke a Korean player’s nose. Don’t mind the brainwashed idiots
Totti's second yellow was a complete disgrace, since there was contact(after touching the ball), and definitely not a dive. And also in second half a Korean player deliberately elbows Del Piero in the face (while piero was pulling his shirt) in their own box, which should have been a red and a penalty. There was also another incident of penalty not given as far as I remember. And the wrongly called offside which was a goal. South Korea did play really well, but wouldn't have won it if not for the rigging.
@@gianca60 Yes and Korea are also responsible for Italy losing to that football powerhouse, North Macedonia, and not qualifying for the last TWO World Cups. I hope the bad karma from all this innane Korea 2002 whinging excludes them for a third.
This is a classic example of “false equivalency”. The Italians have never been in a such a high fouling game, ever, before or after 2002. In a fixed game, the targeted team will often get bad calls in their favor, only to obscure the cheating. However, all of the critical calls were in South Korea’s favor. The 2002 Italian team would’ve easily beaten the 2006 World Cup champion team. South Korea wouldn’t have even made the World Cup if it wasn’t in their home.
6:00 the match It was Barcelona vs LDU, Barcelona won by a goal difference and Byron Moreno added 6 minutes, as LDU did not score goals he added 6 more until they scored two goals to win.
The game has been infiltrated by corrupt people for a long time now. It would be nice if you can bring up the world cup that Argentina bought when it paid off Peru to get to the final against the Netherlands in 1978.
the final itself was also a disgrace we were the better team but we couldn't win that day. they almost had no security on purpose and thousands of raging Argentina fans almost on the pitch. If we won that game our team would've been lynched. disgraceful Argentina
@@androidmaster3369 nope, not even close. But I will say that anyone who thinks you can't go back and do research is not someone to believe in pretty much anything. It's like time and space never existed.
As an asian football fan, this is the reason why we always look down on korean football, even when they now have a world class footballer like Son Heung Min. We will not forget about 2002.
Fun Fact: Spain (2010) and Germany (2014) are the only European teams to win the World Cup outside the continent of Europe. The last time the World cup was in Asia, Germany was the only European team to have a top 4 finish. Germany is also the only team to have a podium(Top 3 ) finish in every continent of this planet- Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia. Number of world cup finals played outside Europe by a European team.- *Germany*-1986 (Mexico City, Mexico), 2002 (Yokohama, Japan), 2014 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) *Italy*-1970 (Mexico City, Mexico), 1994 (Los Angeles, USA) *Netherlands*-1978 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2010 (Johannesburg, South Africa) *Spain*-2010 (Johannesburg, South Africa) *Czechoslovakia*-1962 (Santiago, Chile) *France*-0 *England*-0 *Portugal*-0 edit-*the guy who missed the penalty for spain in 2002 in korea (Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez), he won the copa del rey with real betis beating valencia in 2022. This time he didnot miss the penalty.* God Bless him👏👏
Nations that met the South Korea during the knock out game would be going to be the champion on the next three World Cup.....Italy 2006, Spain 2010 and Germany 2014
People talkin' like bad decisions at 2002 World Cup is a travesty but name Maradona's handball goal as the 'hand of god'. WTF with the double standard?
@@karowana and japanense blame south koreans for 2002 world cup is the stupid things ever and imagine it was Japan instead of South Korea going to semi-finals in 2002 with cheating would Japanense blame south koreans the same thing
1. 1986 was way before that, technologies were poor 2. It was just one goal, England still would have lost 3. In South American and American football they used to allow that kind of goals
Guus Hiddink reshaped and reorganized the team very well; same thing he did with Russia and Turkey. Like Lebouff said; they suddenly were fast as lightning; no one knew them before the WC and suddenly they were there. That wasn't due to doping, it was due to Hiddink getting full potential out of a good set of players. They made a documentary about how he started out at SK, it was super informative and u could see his whole program and idea shaping up. It wasnt all due to the referees
right right we gonna take your word for it instead of SUPERSTAR players, managers and people that been in football their entire lives.... it was clear as water mate the players were doped and everything around them was bought so they knew they had a chance!
The Portugal game was a shocker as well. Two men sent off for what at worst were yellow card offences. South Korea committed more fouls. Portugal's play repeatedly being broken by calls for imaginary offsides. I remember Figo at one point blasting the ball in disgust, without aim, from his own half, as if implying that was thhe only way that they could score.
I'm sure he strongly suspected but is that the same as explicitly knowing and does it make him culpable? Is he going to go to his Korean boss and FIFA vice president and say "be honest with me, is everything above board?" Or does he just keep his head down and focus on doing his own job of preparing the team. Also, the players were being doped but I do believe the players were probably told they were normal, legitimate substances and AS A TEAM weren't aware of it. What individual players thought or suspected, who knows. But IMO, without explicit evidence, it has to be pinned on the offficals, not the team itself. I'm sure they would tell as few people as necessary of any illegal doings to prevent leaks and give plausible deniability to the team itself.
@@Chinaboatman sadly the truth is simpler: racism. He is European so fifa and Asian soccer federation let him off without questioning. If it was a Mexican coach, then 99% he would also be investigated and that would ruin his career
this is embarrassing because koreans are genuinely proud of the outcome in this world cup. we have no clue how this 2002 world cup is viewed by the rest of the world.
@@halorecon95 no its not. Its about the corruption korea did within the world cup. We're talking about shady calls, which were defended and sided by the Koreans. We're talking about Italian players suffering massive injuries without any justice.
@yes-uo8so And nobody even mentions how Italian player broke Korean players nose within first 10 minutes lmao. Italian match was won fair and square, although I do admit I can't say the same for the Spanish match since the refs did really take the Korean side. Plus 2002 was golden era for Korean football so it's not like Korean players were playing shit, every one of them played pretty well, especially Park Ji sung.
@@halorecon95What exactly, all of their song are copies of the US, and all of their food are copies of Japanese and Chinese, so,maybe plastic faces? 🤔
As a Bulgarian i give absolutely zero fucks about the Italy game. Especially after that 1994 semi final i dont wanna hear anything about referees from italians ever again
Video suggestion: Juninho Pernambucao people say he is a better free kick taker than messi and one of the most underrated stars of the 2000's. He is the one who popularized the "knuckleball" and once scored a long range free kick against Oliver Khan in the champions league while playing for Lyon.
Underrated? How? He's a world class free kick taker but apart from that, meh. Comparing him to messi seem bit odd cause messi wasn't exactly specialized in free kick 🤣
The biggest irony is since then, South Korea has become a competitive World Cup nation, but because of that cheating scandal South Korea has always been booted out at the first knockout stage game, just like if they had been cursed at the first phase (Korea's Quinto Partido?). And as a Czech myself, I witnessed so many angry Portuguese, then Italians, and finally Spaniards, in Prague's bars, although because I was a kid, I knew nothing about it at all and most Czechs didn't even give a damn since we didn't qualify for Korea and Japan 2002.
You should do a video on FIFA’s suspicious use of VAR in Russia 2018, lots of instances helping the “big” nations. Can’t have the money makers leaving early right ;)
For those who said that called out the Korean team is racist because they’re Asian, just remember Japan despite not being a strong team, people all over the world are rooting for them and when they beat Germany and Spain, they gained respect from those countries as well and no ref are to blame.
looks a lot like argentina germany, where Schweisteiger was brutally assaulted and argentina should have gotten 2 red cards at least. (The same for the dutch in 2010), I think taking referees from leagues wich are not competitive makes the game worse for all teams. U should limit the fifa refs to nation which have little corruption, have good leagues and even the select the best and not look to include all nations just because. ( I mean corrupt refs can even happen in a land like germany, though it is rare, now look at a place like columbia where u can get off with pesos for everything).
At least the ref in the Spain-Holland final in 2010 made a make-up call when he let Puyol do a flying tackle on Robben, who was free and in on goal. Or was the DeJong non-red the make-up call? I forget. That was the last really horrific major match refereeing I remember off the top of my head.
I am already stressed by what is happening around the world right now with the biggest world coup ever unleashed upon this crazy planet and you think that is a good idea to remind me of that World CUP ! Great video💪 Love from Rome 🇮🇹 💓🌎🌍🌏💓but not Moreno💩 2002 the best team ever🙌
Fun fact: most Koreans still consider the 2002 World Cup as their national sport pride, you may know when some Korean occurs under any comment section praising their soccer team performance.
This is disappointing how exaggerated this video is and how there is little facts. So one sided, but yes the refereeing was bad, but I wouldn’t say rigged
@@hijisfriend9030 Well i honestly don't know the specifics of the whole situation, but I do remember that Inter Milan did stay in the serie A. So hearing that it's their fault is actually very interesting😅
@@RondellKB that's way Juventus dominance in the last decade was a great revenge. They got wronged so badly. I'm not even Juventus fans to begin with but that team was fun to watch. As a kid at that time, Del Piero was a great player to idolize.
@@hijisfriend9030 Yeah, they rebounded really quickly. Most, if not all of their players did stay on even after they were relegated, so it makes sense because they didn't have to do any rebuilding
@@JL-zv3mm you're right I am, however bias has nothing to do with it. I'm no fan of Spain but have no problem saying they were robbed in the next round. Anyone who knows football and watched those matches as I did can see that.
This is biased They don't talk about the fouls that Korea suffered. South Korean player Choi Jin-chul (center back) suffered a fractured nose and another player also suffered a torn head, so he received first aid and played the game
You keep bringing up that one of the reasons why it was a bad idea for Korea and Japan to host the World Cup was because Europeans had to watch the games in the morning when they had to go to work... Yes football is obviously really popular in Europe but don't you understand that football is watched and appreciated throughout the world? Also, you mention that you don't really like that it was hosted in Asia because it had never been done before. Well, isn't that actually a good thing for spreading the love of football? I had to stop watching around the 3:30 mark because clearly you are biased. It's called the WORLD Cup for pete's sake - open your mind mate. Watch this other video and notice how much more neutral and fair the narrative is - th-cam.com/video/z0cVcuhzekY/w-d-xo.html
I don't think I've ever seen a worse edited video than this one; you know that you have to show the stuff that you are talking about; you know that you can show footage of the matches? And if you are scared that you can get copyright claims there's a lot of tricks you can do on editing to show it, you can use stills, pictures, less than 10 second clips, you know like you did on other parts of the video ? I don't get the point of this video if you aren't linking visuals to your voice-over. Might instead of watching this video I would read the Wikipedia entry on this topic and I get the same experience.
I haven't seen one korean celebrity talk about this scandal. All I have seen is that korean celebrities non-stop praising, such a disgrace. How low you must have been to accept this accomplishments at all.
Moreno just released a interview that said that he did quite well in that Italy match, if there was VAR the game would have gone better, cause he made a mistake only in an offside 🤣
I think it's ironic that Italians and Spanish are so upset about matchfixing. Italy has a very broad history of matchfixing in football in their domestic club league and Champions League. Juventus was found guilty of bribing referees and was set back to the third division. Their team doctor also admitted to giving them doping for the CL final of 1996. It is also common knowledge that dictator Franco asked UEFA for help to make Real Madrid champions of Europe multiple times. So before you're going to point fingers and judge another country, take a good look in the mirror.
@@tanim3867 are you daft? My point is that both Italy and Spain have had serious problems of matchfixing, which makes the Italians and Spaniards - who accuse Koreans of being cheaters - hypocrites, because apparently some of their fellow countrymen are cheaters themselves.
I have to say, as a kid (and Portuguese) I always believe we were robbed. Well yesterday I went back and watched the full match. Not only were we not "robbed" we were outplayed. With Pauleta at one point pleeding with one of the Koreans to take it easy as both teams would go through on a draw. And if anyone was paid to sway the result in the Koreans favours, I would say that was Figo. Was that really "prime" Figo?? So disappointing to watch. That guy wouldn't have had a place in beira-mar's starting 11
In 2002 They cheated against Poland, Portugal, Italy And Spain South Korea was the worst host, Japan not, Japan was good. South Korea made into Quarter Finals And Semifinals by Cheating, That's wrong, look at your enemy North Korea in 1966, They made into the Quarter Finals playing fair and square against Italy and so close to beat Portugal
Rewatching the game I think the game against Italy was fair. They scored a goal and parked the bus against a way inferior team. They eventually made a critical mistake and gave up the tying goal. The whole game was so physical between the two committing many fouls. One Korean guy even ended up bloodied in the head. The foul call against Totti at that time with no VAR could have gone either way but its pretty clear the home team will get that advantage. I mean reviewing other matches before this one... this ain't really nothing compared to other crazy calls that happened in the world cup. Remember Maradona's divine hand??? lol. No one says that was corruption right with the no call? In the end...the world couldn't accept that the underdog won. They won fair and square. It was Italy's fault for not finishing them off.
@@ginogatash4030 yes, but there are problems with refereeing in every world cup even with VAR today. I can name so many calls worse than this game but this one gets singled out because it was the first time an Asian team advanced in a long time.
@@davidkusanagi589 I don't think it's completely fair to say 2002 gets more shit just because Korea is Asian team, sure no one was expecting them to get far but the referee calls still stood out for their egregiousness, I agree to an extent that Korea being such an underdog team makes the bad referee calls more apparent than in matches with teams of similar levels to each other, but I still can't think of many wc matches that were THIS bad, putting the teams and all that aside, those calls were not reasonable and the referee of the Italy match is pretty infamous for his crimes, and the fact that Spain and Italy would go on to win the next world cups while Korea never reached a result anywhere near what they achieved in 2002 again only makes that match look worse for them, there's definitely bias at work but the infamy was not completely undeserved.
I watched the Italy v Korea game in Asia. I was pretty drunk by the end of it so my memory’s a bit hazy but about half the bar was Italians and I’ve never seen such angry people in my life. Learnt a lot of Italian swear words that day.
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@@penguin3907 you my friend deserve a prize for making 5 people laugh at the same time
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i hope Italy will meet korea in a world cup match one day, the atmosphere will be tense
As Asian we all felt its BS when watching Portugal get knocked out. The Italy game was so bad even Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles can see clearly it's BS Hope it never happens again. Are u reading this Qatar?
It will happen did you see Qatar vs algeria they played for +20 Minuten after the 90th Minute
Qatar will be the next world champion. They will beat every team by at least 5-0. And if anyone is going to say anything against it, they will land in a forced labor camp in Qatar to dismantle the stadiums after the world cup.
Qatar has zero chance.
@@JJ-nu8qi that'a what we thought about 2002 South Korea.
@@thejamesonthestreet Its just way harder to hide shenanigans now. They might be able to help them out of the group stage but that's about it.
I remember the Italy game. I'm brazilian, not really rooting for Italy, but I was shocked and disgusted at what happened.
You have an italian name though
@@ThrE3-GeS Yeah, italian names are very common in Brazil. But in football, Italy was always our adversary.
@@ThrE3-GeS 25 million Italians migrated to Brazil during the 1920s.
Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc.
From Japan.
@@sakurakumari7305 lol whaddya mean barbaric what part of korea's play was barbaric
I had no idea this world cup was this crazy, I was 12 at the time and was in school for most of it so I only heard the scores. What I think is way more incredible is the fact that Buffon is still playing football😅 20 years later
Legend says he might never stop
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT 🤣🤣
the guy who missed the penalty for spain in 2002, he won the copa del rey with real betis beating valencia. This time he didnot miss the penalty.
@@dipankarmodak2213 name?
@@nuttyknowledge17 Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez
I was there in 2002. The only good thing that came out of it was that it brought the country together supporting the Red Devils. Every game Korea played had decisions that went their way, allowing them to get through the top four. I remember, years later, Korea tried to play the phi al game against Australia using elbows and dangerous tackles. The Australian team took it as a green light to play the same way and five Koreans were stretched off the pitch.
Do u have a link so i can watch that match?!
Do you know which year was that match for Australia?
Link
i want to see that
When you try Australian tricks on Australians, you get Australiened
I remember this world cup. I don't think I have seen a more terrible world cup in my life. Against Portugal, Italy and Spain, I couldn't believe what I was seeing...
well it was designed this way from the beginning of the draw. Not forget the 2-0 vs Poland first victim (?). Of all EU team Portugal, Italy and Spain are the easiest ones to be cheated compare to EN, GE , Bra , FRance etc..They need to do it all the way but in ways to avoid to cheat bigger countries, otherwise scandals can get out of their control. You can see this whole cheating stop once blatter was confronted by public anger after the Spain game. But by that time, korean mafia got what they want already, being in the semi-finals
@@francis87589 If i was a south korea player (of 2002) I would feel so shit for my entire life.
Lies again? Cheating Company Vatican City
Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc.
From Japan.
@@sakurakumari7305 says a guy from Japan which acted the most barbaric (against Koreans and Chinese) in WW2
Not to mention that Moreno shouldnt have even officiated the italy - korea match in the first place. As we all know Moreno is from Ecuador and italy beat Ecuador 2-0 in the group stage at this wc so for him to be a referee here would be a conflict of interest.
Also, as far as I know, the FIFA just said something along the line of "he did his job and there were no irregularities" more or less, just before "randomly" kicking him out the list of referee at the first occasion (a someway suspicious match in his home country among low level teams, less than a year after the World Cup).
Last time I checked this guy was arrested (like in 2010) for trafficking cocaine between Ecuador and USA.
He also half-admitted to have received money but never said if it was from korean federation or from someone involved with bets or from someone else.
2002 was a shitty edition of the World Cup.
Italy had one of the most competitive teams back then.
I would have greatly enjoyed the match Italy-Spain.
That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? How far does that logic go back? Should South Korea never get any German referees anymore because they beat them in 2018? Most refs are actually professionals and their careers depend on doing their job right. In most sports, it's completely normal for a ref to be from one of the competing countries, and it rarely leads to controversy.
France beat Uruguay with an Argentine referee in 2018, and Croatia beat Denmark with that same referee, despite them having beaten Argentina previously. France then got a Uruguayan ref in the semis and still won.
@@BrianStorm742
As said in my previous comment (which was already a reply so you may have missed it) he was corrupted. He took money for that. That's the only reason why he shouldn't have been put in lead of *any* match as a referee. He judged unfairly 3 or 4 matches during that World Cup.
It's not a matter of who played against who before, which is not expected to be a problem among pro referees (even if in rare cases some of them seem to forget about it). It's a specific problem occourred whith that specific referee in that specific edition of the Championship.
@@BrianStorm742 I am not saying that it shouldn't be an issue, especially with professional legitimate refs but in order to completely eliminate and prevent all doubts from having a clean officiating match it's better to put a ref with no conflict of interest. If your theory is 100 percent fool proof like you claim then you would even see refs officiate matches between teams that are the nationality of one of the teams in action but as we all know we never see that, even if the refs are 100 percent clean and legitimate. For example, like putting an argentine ref in a match between Argentina and Germany. It's not about whether a ref is corrupt or not. It's about getting rid of all doubts and making sure there isn't any favoritism in play as that could also leave room for an appeal to be made.
As an Omani who has seen Qatar play against us a million times. There wasn’t a single game where they didn’t try to rig the win.
nah this isn’t true😭😭😭
@@shahadalmuftah1148 Nahhh this is so true every single game you lot win a pen when we were supposed to have a million of those
They already bought the next world cup.
They will most likely get to the ko phase because FIFA likes money and Quatar has a lot of oil barons who can give them their money
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow! Really? So, I should bet that Qatar make the quarter finals in 2022?
Italy won next World Cup in 2006, Spain won next next one in 2010, German won next next next in 2014, Portugal won the Europe cup in 2016. Every team against Korea won something
Karma.
Except Italy lost and couldn't go to the 16th round in the following WC.
china never qualifies
@@davidheok1978 itsly won euros
@@ciyrainshgaming507 exactly to the point again, how can they win Euro and not make it to the World cup?
Imagine Blatter's FIFA "investigating" Moreno for doing what he was told, lol..
Blatter was like: "I'm sorry little one"
this was all because of sepp blatter, he allowed this to happen, south korea is partly to blame but fifa allowed it
Nah its almost all south korea..
@@gedeyogam9096 anti asian aren't you
@@gedeyogam9096 Korea corrupted officials in the Olympics they hosted too. I remember boxing especially was rigged.
@@716_ハディくん betul dia ckp
No evidence. All just speculation. And sore losers. From 20 years ago.
I was astonished by the flawless Portuguese names pronunciation right there, but then I found you're Portuguese and it made sense lol
I remember yelling at my TV when Spain's goal was called "out of bounds." I was absolutely livid and I'm not even from España haha. I knew then that this game was rigged.
As a Korean I agree with the Spanish goal should have been given. Italy and Portugal, not so much
@@gnsgml11 it's cool that you admit it. It's sad though how the Korean player was ousted from the Italian league. He didn't deserve that.
There were 2 legit goals disallowed against Spain. Spain should of won 0-2
@@naville82 That's why I said I agree with Spain getting robbed. Portugal definitely no, and Italy there were dirty play from both sides so overall I see it as fair.
@@gnsgml11 fair play. Its a shame cause that Spain squad could of easily made the final because Germanys team were beatable that tournament. Spain had an insane team that yr.
In al fairness, the spanish penalty miss would be justified years later as Sevilla GK was 4 feet out of his line to stop every penalty benfica took in the europa league final.
fuck sevilla, musho betis XD
@Qvmt 6 dont care, a rigged match is a rigged match, if u compare, spain match wasnt a final, sevilla vs benfica was.
@Qvmt 6 portugal weak? From 2000-2018 the Portuguese league was at the top destroying teams in the champions league and many more things
@@Isthislebron28383 I didn't know 2004 was every year from 2000-2018
@@Isthislebron28383 ,😂😂
I am Italian. The defeat in the 2022 World Cup was truly bitter. The decisions of the referee Moreno were really unfair. I hope these things never happen again in football. Today in the team I am a fan of, Napoli, there is a very good Korean player, Kim Min jae. He is an honest and humble player who is doing very well in Napoli as a defender, despite having been with this team for less than two months. He has already scored 3 goals and as a defender he is really a wall. The fault in 2002 was, not of the players, but of the organizers, Fifa and Moreno
How did Korea buy the referee when they received 4 yellow cards in this match? For the Italians to deny reality after defeat. It is true that there were many misjudgments, but it is wrong to claim that Korea's victory is simply corruption. Moreover, Italy also benefited from the misjudgment.
@@e4311 ur Korean, there's nothing to add bro
@@e4311 did you even watch the match? it was pretty obvious. and it means nothing that they got 4 yellow cards. That’s a very meaningless offense, especially since if you are a corrupt referee you can give 1 yellow card and the player stays. They never got booked twice even though they should have in multiple instances. Especially when you set the precedent of sending off a player for “diving” in the box when you’re in the center of the field.
@@e4311 cmon man,surely ur not being serious....
@@Federix02 you probably only saw what fake videos see. Watch the full match :)
man I remember watching italy - korea as a kid and being dismayed at how obviously crooked moreno was, my little and naive self was livid and shocked that such a travesty could slide at an international competition, and it was after they avenged us and spain (another team I liked) that I took a shine to germany's national team and started rooting for them when they weren't playing us
Or you can't accept sometimes the best team doesn't always won.
@@mubpfc The team that pays more win.
@@thunder6676 Proof?
The only decision the referee actually got wrong was the elbow. Even then, it wasn’t a red card. It didn’t change the outcome of the match
@@thepigproductivity I know Maldini getting kicked in the head wasn’t a red card? Tommasi’s goal that was called off sides aaa clearly wrong which would have ended Korea and put Italy up 2-0. Korea didn’t score until 88th minute to force extra time. So much bs went on in this game and the game against Portugal and Spain it’s sickening.
I mean the job was to reach semis. If anything was achieved even the 3rd place, the WC would be counted as useless. Imagine the outrage over that
Lets also remember that the 3rd place final was in Seoul, the final in Tokio. Losing in the semis was actually almost preferable than winning
"The time zone meant Europeans would have to watch the games in the morning"
Bro you know that Football is not just for Europeans ?
It isnt, but Europe has the most teams compete in the world cup, so a big change in time zone will affect them the most.
@@duongnhdn Yes and they host most world cups
Morning isn't even that bad, imagine the rest of the world has to stay up from midnight to 6am just to watch a football match.
@@phantom16518 and our nation isn't even playing .....
80% of ppl who watch World cup are from africa and europe (Same time zone) and of course S america, so they get matches in middle of day. No one in asia care and ppl dont care their teams
Amazing story that needed to be told. The beautiful sport the whole world loves is tainted by corrupt and disgraceful managers, and it has been like that for decades.
At least there's var now so these blatant match-fixing won't go unnoticed
Yes nowdays filming is a thing, because some managers always delsuionally just belived the player got really bad hurt, while actually is filming.
Prove it!
...except there's no evidence to back any of this "cheating" claim up.
So some people are just sore about some games from 20 years ago, and putting a bias video against South Korea's football team, which imo was in its best form even before the World Cup.
@@dannnsss8034 look at this you Korean fanboy 7:07
I watched it. Couldn’t believe my eyes. The Korean team was really shameless.
Argentina did the same
Spain got away with a literal handball in the penalty box at the Euros; England got a non-existent penalty to reach the final. Argentina got 5 penalties in the 2022 WC. Germany didn’t receive 2 red cards in the 2014 final. Real Madrid have been winning their UCLs with offside goals and refereeing help, same with Barcelona. “B-but Korea are the biggest cheats in football” 🤡
you can see Totti's face right there at the sheer absurdity hes witnessing
As a Portugal fan, all i remember from the 2002, was the very suspicious change from Humberto Coelho as coach (who led the team on the euro 2000 campaign) to oliveira, which was a well connected individual and all the News from all night partying from the team in the hotel in korea. To be fair the 2002 campaign was so poor i didnt even remember the bad refereeing.
portugal is shit on international level. remember c ronaldo? did brazil and france rob the world cup. cry
I remember seeing a "Goodbye Figo" sign on the stand in the KOR-POR match after the final whistle, surely the most memorable moment of that world cup for me. He won the Ballon Dor the year before didnt he?
@@duongnhdn Luis Figo always seemed to care more about club football than the national team. Ask Barcelona fans how they feel about him?
Fun fact: In the 1954 World Cup They had lost two matches against Turkey (7-0) and Hungary (9-0) but they couldn't go to the match against West Germany and go last in the group
Actually in 1954, all the teams only played two group matches
are you talking about Korea? I mean they did just get finished fighting a civil war from 1950-1953 so i'm not really surprised that they didn't have a good football team...
Even funnier fact, Turkey qualified in 50' but the team didn't have the budget to travel to the tournament in Brazil. So 54' and 2002 are our only WC adventures.
Korea spent couple of weeks on the road to the world cup stadium from the opposite part of planet. There were no nonstop planes and many trains and buses. They played the next day after they arrived. What do you expect?
@@attilaseyfullah8522 fun fact my country was included in a world cup and olympic for football
But poverty and no boots leads us to not even participate on the tournaments and till date we lack fukingly in football
As a spaniard I feel sad we didn't get that Italy 🇮🇹 vs Spain 🇪🇸 in the semifinals as it should have been 😭
If the match was fixed the scores would have been South Korea 1-6 Spain
Portugal Italy would be interesting too
Portugal Spain also
If Italy won in the round of 16… wouldn’t it be the quarterfinals? Or am I missing something?
@@minhoform You're completely right, it would have been in the quarter finals, my bad.
I remember watching those games and having no doubt that the fix was in.
Lets be honest, this is how we feel at EVERY World Cup.
thanks for clarifying everything mate, class vid 💯
I remember as a kid thinking we (Ireland) could've got to a World Cup semi final, if we beat Spain on penalties, turns out we'd have had no chance.
None at all
Just goes to shows how naïve we can be as kids 😂
Great video. Does justice to the injustice of that world cup
Italy got screwed glad they won the following World Cup in Germany
They cheated in 2006 against Australia though. It's funny how people cry about it when Italy gets kicked out unfairly, but when they knock out other teams unfairly it's crickets. The hypocrisy around 2002 is nothing short of astonishing, apparently cheating is only a problem when it hurts the big teams, not all those times it helps them.
@@frankvandorp2059 🤡🤡🤡, they cheated Grosso was fouled in the box. They didn’t do anything remotely close to what the Koreans were doing to them in 2002.
@@ItalianStallion01 It was a blatant dive and Italy cheated its way into the quarter finals. It's pathetic and hypocritical how Italians will whine about Korea cheating against them but don't even have the balls to admit that they themselves cheated against Australia.
@@frankvandorp2059 What cheated? No one paid off any ref against Australia 🤡, Grosso was fouled and tripped in the box it’s called a penalty. Totti took it and smashed it home. What happened to the Italians, Portuguese, and Spanish is a disgrace. That was easily Italys WC to take.
@@ItalianStallion01 There is as much evidence that Korea paid off the ref against Italy, as there is evidence that Italy paid off the ref against Australia. That is, none.
And any honest person with eyes knows Grosso dived there. To deny that you need to be either utterly delusional or a biased Italian, most likely both. You complain when other teams cheat but you deny it when your own team does it, a clear sign of someone who never matured beyond the age of 9.
South Korea & corruption name a more iconic duo.
Somalia be like
North Korea and imprisonment
But FIFA has demonstrated so many ways to rig a world cup.
We wait 4 damn years to watch the greatest football event and those bastards ruin it . Hope they stick their money right up their asses
The final between France and Croatia in 2018 was blatantly rigged as well.
LIke world cup in Qatar. Paying Argentina the cup with oil money and refs that give them 10 fake pens everytime the diva to Di-Maria throwed himself to the ground.
May be. But do you really think Croatia was able to win?@@iainrobb2076
@@iainrobb2076what went wrong there, I don’t rly remember
This clown and FIFA robbed Italy of a WC, that team was so stacked and loaded they would have easily beaten Spain and Germany and would have taken care of a Brazil to enact revenge from 1994. That 2002 team was better than the 2006 WC team and they left Baggio at home which was a mistake.
pizza tears 😋
@@716_ハディくん pls sthu u are not funny
@@716_ハディくん Still Italy 4 world cups> South Korea 0 world cups. Italy is bigger than what South "Rob and rig the world cup" Korea is.
We all love Baggio but by 2002 he was as good as done.
@@ymca4547 Baggio could have served as a late sub who could give you 20-30 mins of good footballing.
14:50 that picture will forever be iconic
As a Japanese, I think Japan should’ve hosted World Cup without South Korea
I know, Japan did not need SK at all. Well like the video told us, a S Korean second in charge at FIFA and Sep Blat being his usual corrupt self.
Yes, all Japanese think that way. Cohosting wc with a barbaric country like Korea was a nightmare. We shouldn't have done that. I feel so sorry for teams from Italy, Spain, etc.
Even as a Korean, I agree.
@@snakevenom39 I'm Italian and one thing we're good at is admitting when someone's out of line or one of our own acts disrespectfully. We admire the same traits in others so it's good for you to say so.
Pity I can't say that for my Irish side, 🤷🏻♂️ they're not always the most graceful when it comes to these. things.
Corea Beat 🪘🪘 Espanol...
So Brazil Got Copa World 🌎🌏 2002
I completely forgot about this, and it scares me what could happen in Qatar..
Idt this is easy to happen again or this is something all asian countries do.
Heck, even South Korean national team grow a lot after that and now they have great players like Son.
@@Abdullah-rx2xq i have to remind you macht like the european semis england-denmark, basicly the England goal was a unexistent penalty while TWO balls where at the same time in the area and this is only an example
I don’t think Qatar will give a $hit about their own team. I mean their group is stacked as hell. For them, the tournament is money.
I’m more worried about Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Powers Qatar is sandwiched in-between. If Soccer is to grow in the Middle East, those two Caliphates more than likely want their teams to do good.
This raises the question for me, does England, The US, and Wales then have to have a blood bath for 2nd?
There’s a lot that could happen, but I’m expecting the big population nations to go far along with either Iran or Saudi Arabia.
It’s so unlikely Qatar will make themselves the “bad guys” rigging this. One of the other Muslim powers will likely be.
My money is on Saudi Arabia shocking the group of Poland, Mexico, and Argentina. But Iran could also make it out. They’ve never done that.
There’s no way Qatar actually does this for themselves. Except the money part.
Which now that I mention it, makes me more worried for UAE vs Australia.
In fact, the worst case scenario, all the Muslim Nations do well
@@jajasking9652 Exactly! Sterlings Dive was so obvious that he feel completely on his own!
Never underestimate what they will do with VAR
@@Abdullah-rx2xq Don’t underestimate VAR
Italy - South Kora was a nasty game and the referee completely off the rails, maybe the worst referee of all world cup games and yes, possibly partisan
But your representation is exaggerated, especially the part about bloodthirsty Koreans violently rough up these lovely little Italian schoolboys who were send to the world cup. Like Totti, Gattuso, Vieri and Materazzi.
Within the first 25 minutes the Koreans already had Italian ellbows and arms on their faces, all purposefully and early on they started giving it back. Vieri alone had done plenty of action to be send off during the game easily.
The referee overlooked obvious violent fouls on both sides, with the Koreans being more obvious, the Italians more devious.
The bloody head-ingury of Coco you are showing is the result of getting the arms of one Korean and one team mate in it´s face, while he is pushing the Korean away. Obviously no harm intended.
Also the penalty for Korea is well documented. The Panucci obviously grabs Seol and brings him to the ground. This is a give or take penalty. But the penalty situation of Totti too, because the korean actually played the ball and Totti is going into him for full contact. Maybe not a yellow card though...
If you want to check the highlights of the game without any folkloric hyped bias and being butt-hurt for being kicked out by south korea for the last 20 years:
th-cam.com/video/VYZFrWdKSxI/w-d-xo.html
Korea cheated their was to semifinals that's all
Yeah Korea won fair and square but italians will believe what they want to believe even after 20 years. They don’t even know they literally broke a Korean player’s nose. Don’t mind the brainwashed idiots
Totti's second yellow was a complete disgrace, since there was contact(after touching the ball), and definitely not a dive. And also in second half a Korean player deliberately elbows Del Piero in the face (while piero was pulling his shirt) in their own box, which should have been a red and a penalty. There was also another incident of penalty not given as far as I remember. And the wrongly called offside which was a goal. South Korea did play really well, but wouldn't have won it if not for the rigging.
@@gianca60 Yes and Korea are also responsible for Italy losing to that football powerhouse, North Macedonia, and not qualifying for the last TWO World Cups. I hope the bad karma from all this innane Korea 2002 whinging excludes them for a third.
This is a classic example of “false equivalency”. The Italians have never been in a such a high fouling game, ever, before or after 2002. In a fixed game, the targeted team will often get bad calls in their favor, only to obscure the cheating. However, all of the critical calls were in South Korea’s favor. The 2002 Italian team would’ve easily beaten the 2006 World Cup champion team. South Korea wouldn’t have even made the World Cup if it wasn’t in their home.
6:00 the match It was Barcelona vs LDU, Barcelona won by a goal difference and Byron Moreno added 6 minutes, as LDU did not score goals he added 6 more until they scored two goals to win.
The game has been infiltrated by corrupt people for a long time now. It would be nice if you can bring up the world cup that Argentina bought when it paid off Peru to get to the final against the Netherlands in 1978.
the final itself was also a disgrace we were the better team but we couldn't win that day. they almost had no security on purpose and thousands of raging Argentina fans almost on the pitch. If we won that game our team would've been lynched. disgraceful Argentina
@@androidmaster3369 nope, not even close. But I will say that anyone who thinks you can't go back and do research is not someone to believe in pretty much anything.
It's like time and space never existed.
@@androidmaster3369 💀 what? My parents remember this game and they’re in their fifties, not that old.
Talk about how Italy robbed their first 2 wc's, Uruguay their only 2wcs and how England robbed the 66' one
@@Saggs786man. at this point every WC winner robbed every tournament, huh
Corruption has been part of the Korean peninsula since ancient times
same with every part of south america.
@@leaveleague3491 facts
One of the worst world cups in terms of corruption.
As an asian football fan, this is the reason why we always look down on korean football, even when they now have a world class footballer like Son Heung Min. We will not forget about 2002.
lol what did Korea do to you
@@Blazethrough123korea disgraced football
Hahaha warra jealous asian guy here, cry😂😂
All I get from this video is never ever make a sport tournament in South Korea ever again.
In badminton matches Korea used fans & resulting wind to help their players
Fun Fact: Spain (2010) and Germany (2014) are the only European teams to win the World Cup outside the continent of Europe. The last time the World cup was in Asia, Germany was the only European team to have a top 4 finish.
Germany is also the only team to have a podium(Top 3 ) finish in every continent of this planet- Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia.
Number of world cup finals played outside Europe by a European team.-
*Germany*-1986 (Mexico City, Mexico), 2002 (Yokohama, Japan), 2014 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
*Italy*-1970 (Mexico City, Mexico), 1994 (Los Angeles, USA)
*Netherlands*-1978 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2010 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
*Spain*-2010 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
*Czechoslovakia*-1962 (Santiago, Chile)
*France*-0
*England*-0
*Portugal*-0
edit-*the guy who missed the penalty for spain in 2002 in korea (Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez), he won the copa del rey with real betis beating valencia in 2022. This time he didnot miss the penalty.* God Bless him👏👏
What about turkey
I believe Germany didn't play in the finals of 1970 nor 1994.
It was Italy in both occassion.
@@thereistheonlyone I wrote Italy 1970 and 1994.
@@dipankarmodak2213
Oh? My mistake, dipankar. I'm sorry.
Nations that met the South Korea during the knock out game would be going to be the champion on the next three World Cup.....Italy 2006, Spain 2010 and Germany 2014
People talkin' like bad decisions at 2002 World Cup is a travesty but name Maradona's handball goal as the 'hand of god'. WTF with the double standard?
It's called racism.
@@karowana and japanense blame south koreans for 2002 world cup is the stupid things ever and imagine it was Japan instead of South Korea going to semi-finals in 2002 with cheating
would Japanense blame south koreans the same thing
+1
1. 1986 was way before that, technologies were poor
2. It was just one goal, England still would have lost
3. In South American and American football they used to allow that kind of goals
i was pretty sure youre portuguese by the accent but when you said the portuguese players names the minimal doubt i had was gone hehe , im subbed
he is Portugese though. (he said in a different video)
"The time zones meant European have to watch the games in the morning."
Asians be like: Yeah, we always face that
"If you cant beat them,box them"
Guus Hiddink reshaped and reorganized the team very well; same thing he did with Russia and Turkey. Like Lebouff said; they suddenly were fast as lightning; no one knew them before the WC and suddenly they were there. That wasn't due to doping, it was due to Hiddink getting full potential out of a good set of players. They made a documentary about how he started out at SK, it was super informative and u could see his whole program and idea shaping up. It wasnt all due to the referees
“Suddenly fast as lightning”?? the SK have long been known for how physical they are for ages among the asian countries.
right right we gonna take your word for it instead of SUPERSTAR players, managers and people that been in football their entire lives.... it was clear as water mate the players were doped and everything around them was bought so they knew they had a chance!
@@josfur1977 good then! 😆 👍
Spain and italy were simply too much cheating that even if you didn't watched that world cup you still know about those 2 matches
cheatED
The Portugal game was a shocker as well. Two men sent off for what at worst were yellow card offences. South Korea committed more fouls. Portugal's play repeatedly being broken by calls for imaginary offsides. I remember Figo at one point blasting the ball in disgust, without aim, from his own half, as if implying that was thhe only way that they could score.
@@iainrobb2076 I disagree with the Pinto foul. That could have ended a career.
Yeh, Italy was the Best team 8n that tournament with the squad it had and they were blatantly robbed and FIFA done f...k all.
Why wasn’t the Dutch coach Guss also investigated? There is NO WAY an experienced ex-footballer like Guss didn’t know what was going on with his team!
I'm sure he strongly suspected but is that the same as explicitly knowing and does it make him culpable? Is he going to go to his Korean boss and FIFA vice president and say "be honest with me, is everything above board?" Or does he just keep his head down and focus on doing his own job of preparing the team. Also, the players were being doped but I do believe the players were probably told they were normal, legitimate substances and AS A TEAM weren't aware of it. What individual players thought or suspected, who knows. But IMO, without explicit evidence, it has to be pinned on the offficals, not the team itself. I'm sure they would tell as few people as necessary of any illegal doings to prevent leaks and give plausible deniability to the team itself.
@@Chinaboatman sadly the truth is simpler: racism. He is European so fifa and Asian soccer federation let him off without questioning. If it was a Mexican coach, then 99% he would also be investigated and that would ruin his career
How to rig a World Cup - make sure you have gangster banking and deep pockets 😅
this is embarrassing because koreans are genuinely proud of the outcome in this world cup. we have no clue how this 2002 world cup is viewed by the rest of the world.
Koreans have everything to be proud of, this video is just someone being butthurt about having lost to Korea.
@@halorecon95 no its not. Its about the corruption korea did within the world cup. We're talking about shady calls, which were defended and sided by the Koreans. We're talking about Italian players suffering massive injuries without any justice.
@yes-uo8so And nobody even mentions how Italian player broke Korean players nose within first 10 minutes lmao.
Italian match was won fair and square, although I do admit I can't say the same for the Spanish match since the refs did really take the Korean side.
Plus 2002 was golden era for Korean football so it's not like Korean players were playing shit, every one of them played pretty well, especially Park Ji sung.
@@halorecon95What exactly, all of their song are copies of the US, and all of their food are copies of Japanese and Chinese, so,maybe plastic faces? 🤔
As a Bulgarian i give absolutely zero fucks about the Italy game. Especially after that 1994 semi final i dont wanna hear anything about referees from italians ever again
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Juninho Pernambucao people say he is a better free kick taker than messi and one of the most underrated stars of the 2000's. He is the one who popularized the "knuckleball" and once scored a long range free kick against Oliver Khan in the champions league while playing for Lyon.
Underrated? How?
He's a world class free kick taker but apart from that, meh. Comparing him to messi seem bit odd cause messi wasn't exactly specialized in free kick 🤣
He is a dribbler haha and a goal contributer like man deserves some credit haha
Lovely video nice edits and even nicer script keep up the good work and u will get what u deserve
This is a good thing about VAR, it can prevent blatant cheating like this
Says the argentina fan LOL! If this isn't irony I don't know what is
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@@eliasreed-miguel They are still crying Ignoree
The biggest irony is since then, South Korea has become a competitive World Cup nation, but because of that cheating scandal South Korea has always been booted out at the first knockout stage game, just like if they had been cursed at the first phase (Korea's Quinto Partido?). And as a Czech myself, I witnessed so many angry Portuguese, then Italians, and finally Spaniards, in Prague's bars, although because I was a kid, I knew nothing about it at all and most Czechs didn't even give a damn since we didn't qualify for Korea and Japan 2002.
2022 world cup:???
@@thedimlight3312 I was saying from a Czech perspective. Literally it was harsh.
I love how these elite teams are usually hated and the envy of the world but somehow gets to pull the victim card when something doesn't go their way
Yeah that's usually how it goes when you're playing in a rigged match
But many people see biased footage and believe that it is the only truth. That is the biggest problem with this controversy.
You should do a video on FIFA’s suspicious use of VAR in Russia 2018, lots of instances helping the “big” nations. Can’t have the money makers leaving early right ;)
Fr, that Spain vs Portugal match was a pure disgrace. Final was also controversial
13:24 "Moreno, your mom work at night" LOL
For those who said that called out the Korean team is racist because they’re Asian, just remember Japan despite not being a strong team, people all over the world are rooting for them and when they beat Germany and Spain, they gained respect from those countries as well and no ref are to blame.
looks a lot like argentina germany, where Schweisteiger was brutally assaulted and argentina should have gotten 2 red cards at least. (The same for the dutch in 2010), I think taking referees from leagues wich are not competitive makes the game worse for all teams. U should limit the fifa refs to nation which have little corruption, have good leagues and even the select the best and not look to include all nations just because. ( I mean corrupt refs can even happen in a land like germany, though it is rare, now look at a place like columbia where u can get off with pesos for everything).
it's not a problem of referees being bad, it's a problem of referees being paid
Someone is really salty, oooooh.
@@vaayman7770 I mean he is right, dude was bleeding from aguero's header.
At least the ref in the Spain-Holland final in 2010 made a make-up call when he let Puyol do a flying tackle on Robben, who was free and in on goal. Or was the DeJong non-red the make-up call? I forget. That was the last really horrific major match refereeing I remember off the top of my head.
Neuer almost kneed Higuain's BRAIN out but we didn't get a PK for that clear PK. Germany ALSO stole a PK in 1990 so shhhhhhhh
Imagine the state of twitter if those Spain and Italy games happened today 😭
What's Twitter gonna do? A lot of people on there are keyboard warriors, saying stuff that they would never say in real life.
@@JL-zv3mm They’re going to do nothing. It would just be funny
@@JL-zv3mm cancel culture is real
I am totally against it but it legit ruins life
Very well made video, congrats bro.
And then there’s North Korea who beat Italy without cheating lmao
It's north macedonia you genious
@@giacomogrosso1388 I think he was talking just in general, thy did play in 1966
@@giacomogrosso1388 he is talking about North Korea vs Italy at the 1966 World Cup where the North Koreans won 1-0, you genius
@@rsabinioan thanx i know i'm a genius. like Suarez you know?
@@giacomogrosso1388 not as much as a genius as Michael lyga
I am already stressed by what is happening around the world right now with the biggest world coup ever unleashed upon this crazy planet and you think that is a good idea to remind me of that World CUP !
Great video💪
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💓🌎🌍🌏💓but not Moreno💩
2002 the best team ever🙌
As an Italian, this still hurts. Biggest scandal in World Cup history.
Support Italy for boycotting two consecutive tournaments against corrupt FIFA! In Korea, we are cheering for Italy to leave FIFA.
@@e4311 the whole world already knows what kinda clowns you guys are. No need to further embarrass yourself with such comments.
Yes, but pls explain your pain about Juventus AFTER this Worldcup & 1934 title.
Moreno has a bounty on his head in Italy!
I believe it. It wouldn’t surprise me nor anyone
i remember watching it and laughing my guts out ...it was not only the korean matches. the whole world cup was a comedy.
I'm Italian and I was more disgusted by the South Korea v Spain game, but the Italy v SK was up there as one of the worst WC games ever!
Match fixing is big out here I live in Korea they don’t take certain games and bets at the bookies. K league has a lot of match fixing.
Fun fact: most Koreans still consider the 2002 World Cup as their national sport pride, you may know when some Korean occurs under any comment section praising their soccer team performance.
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Amazing video, you should do one on how Argentina rigged the 2022 World Cup
This is disappointing how exaggerated this video is and how there is little facts. So one sided, but yes the refereeing was bad, but I wouldn’t say rigged
I mean… if THAT German team only won 1-0 then clearly Korea was a pretty good team. Everything else aside.
To be fair Italian soccer has being plague by corruption so what that’s referee said wasn’t a lie
I remember when juventus and ac Milan got relegated and docked points because of match fixing, what a shame.
@@RondellKB the problem is Juventus wasn't even the problem in calciopoli. It was fucking Inter and somehow they got away with it. Fucking hell
@@hijisfriend9030 Well i honestly don't know the specifics of the whole situation, but I do remember that Inter Milan did stay in the serie A. So hearing that it's their fault is actually very interesting😅
@@RondellKB that's way Juventus dominance in the last decade was a great revenge. They got wronged so badly. I'm not even Juventus fans to begin with but that team was fun to watch. As a kid at that time, Del Piero was a great player to idolize.
@@hijisfriend9030 Yeah, they rebounded really quickly. Most, if not all of their players did stay on even after they were relegated, so it makes sense because they didn't have to do any rebuilding
Italy and Spain got robed in 02 and they both won the world cup after that
Facts; delay is not denial.
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tbf, the Italy match was a bit more complicated, but that Spain match was absolutely scandelous
not really both games were a disgrace. Italy was clearly robbed, it's not that complicated.
@@Ebsalon it's because you're biased.
@@Ebsalon Italy was not robbed at all. It was a complicated game. Portual and Spain? Now they got robbed for real.
@@JL-zv3mm you're right I am, however bias has nothing to do with it. I'm no fan of Spain but have no problem saying they were robbed in the next round. Anyone who knows football and watched those matches as I did can see that.
@@mintyfresh4855 I'm not denying that at all. I'm talking about the Italy game, it was a travesty plain and simple
This is biased They don't talk about the fouls that Korea suffered. South Korean player Choi Jin-chul (center back) suffered a fractured nose and another player also suffered a torn head, so he received first aid and played the game
You keep bringing up that one of the reasons why it was a bad idea for Korea and Japan to host the World Cup was because Europeans had to watch the games in the morning when they had to go to work... Yes football is obviously really popular in Europe but don't you understand that football is watched and appreciated throughout the world? Also, you mention that you don't really like that it was hosted in Asia because it had never been done before. Well, isn't that actually a good thing for spreading the love of football? I had to stop watching around the 3:30 mark because clearly you are biased. It's called the WORLD Cup for pete's sake - open your mind mate. Watch this other video and notice how much more neutral and fair the narrative is - th-cam.com/video/z0cVcuhzekY/w-d-xo.html
I don't think I've ever seen a worse edited video than this one; you know that you have to show the stuff that you are talking about; you know that you can show footage of the matches? And if you are scared that you can get copyright claims there's a lot of tricks you can do on editing to show it, you can use stills, pictures, less than 10 second clips, you know like you did on other parts of the video ? I don't get the point of this video if you aren't linking visuals to your voice-over. Might instead of watching this video I would read the Wikipedia entry on this topic and I get the same experience.
*South Korea plays football*
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I haven't seen one korean celebrity talk about this scandal. All I have seen is that korean celebrities non-stop praising, such a disgrace. How low you must have been to accept this accomplishments at all.
This World Cup was an epic joke
Moreno just released a interview that said that he did quite well in that Italy match, if there was VAR the game would have gone better, cause he made a mistake only in an offside 🤣
did he do that while he was in NYC prison cell ? lol
The ref really said "we investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing"
I think it's ironic that Italians and Spanish are so upset about matchfixing. Italy has a very broad history of matchfixing in football in their domestic club league and Champions League. Juventus was found guilty of bribing referees and was set back to the third division. Their team doctor also admitted to giving them doping for the CL final of 1996.
It is also common knowledge that dictator Franco asked UEFA for help to make Real Madrid champions of Europe multiple times.
So before you're going to point fingers and judge another country, take a good look in the mirror.
What does football league has to do with international football?
@@tanim3867 are you daft? My point is that both Italy and Spain have had serious problems of matchfixing, which makes the Italians and Spaniards - who accuse Koreans of being cheaters - hypocrites, because apparently some of their fellow countrymen are cheaters themselves.
“The whistle blows for offside but it wasn’t, it really wasn’t.”
Pretty much every offside call
I have to say, as a kid (and Portuguese) I always believe we were robbed. Well yesterday I went back and watched the full match. Not only were we not "robbed" we were outplayed. With Pauleta at one point pleeding with one of the Koreans to take it easy as both teams would go through on a draw. And if anyone was paid to sway the result in the Koreans favours, I would say that was Figo. Was that really "prime" Figo?? So disappointing to watch. That guy wouldn't have had a place in beira-mar's starting 11
It's funny how Italy doesn't make it to World Cup so many times for being such a great team.
They did win the euro 2020
So many times…like two? 😂
In 2002 They cheated against Poland, Portugal, Italy And Spain
South Korea was the worst host, Japan not, Japan was good.
South Korea made into Quarter Finals And Semifinals by Cheating, That's wrong, look at your enemy North Korea in 1966, They made into the Quarter Finals playing fair and square against Italy and so close to beat Portugal
I have no clue what's going on when he was narrating the game section. 😂
Bruh people saying : oh Qatar is going to the semi finals 🤓
Morocco : shut ur ass up
i dont think a single person thought Qatar was going past the group stages😂
Now I know where Qatar is going is going to play in the semis
Even now with VAR they still find loopholes to gift penalties to -Argentina- some teams
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You are just salty, using this bs as an excuse to cope and you know it wasn't rigged. Cry more
Rewatching the game I think the game against Italy was fair. They scored a goal and parked the bus against a way inferior team. They eventually made a critical mistake and gave up the tying goal. The whole game was so physical between the two committing many fouls. One Korean guy even ended up bloodied in the head. The foul call against Totti at that time with no VAR could have gone either way but its pretty clear the home team will get that advantage. I mean reviewing other matches before this one... this ain't really nothing compared to other crazy calls that happened in the world cup. Remember Maradona's divine hand??? lol. No one says that was corruption right with the no call? In the end...the world couldn't accept that the underdog won. They won fair and square. It was Italy's fault for not finishing them off.
Are you high? I am an asian, world cup 2002 was so dirty and reek of corruption. The match waa disgusting indeed
@@aiyulee6366 You didn't even watch the game and you don't know crap about football. Shut your trap go move along.
I will agree Italy's performance wasn't the best but the refereeing choices were still pretty insane.
@@ginogatash4030 yes, but there are problems with refereeing in every world cup even with VAR today. I can name so many calls worse than this game but this one gets singled out because it was the first time an Asian team advanced in a long time.
@@davidkusanagi589 I don't think it's completely fair to say 2002 gets more shit just because Korea is Asian team, sure no one was expecting them to get far but the referee calls still stood out for their egregiousness, I agree to an extent that Korea being such an underdog team makes the bad referee calls more apparent than in matches with teams of similar levels to each other, but I still can't think of many wc matches that were THIS bad, putting the teams and all that aside, those calls were not reasonable and the referee of the Italy match is pretty infamous for his crimes, and the fact that Spain and Italy would go on to win the next world cups while Korea never reached a result anywhere near what they achieved in 2002 again only makes that match look worse for them, there's definitely bias at work but the infamy was not completely undeserved.
And South Koreans till this day take pride in their 4th place finish which I would be ashamed of