France arrived at the 2002 World Cup as champions, but after being eliminated in the group stage, they produced one of the greatest failures in football history ...

Italy won their third World Cup, and first since 1938, when they emerged victorious in Spain. Iconic striker Paulo Rossi was his nation’s talisman at the tournament and he hit a hat-trick in a famous ...

One of the tenets of any classic World Cup is the presence of a plucky underdog that upsets the odds and makes a deep run into the latter stages of the tournament. In 2002, co-host South Korea played ...