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Down 48 games and 16 teams, left 16 games and 16 teams.

Here is a list of best and worst for the first tour.

Best team: Japan.

Best coaches: Mentsu (Senegal), Troussier (Japan), both are French.

Best game: Brazil-Costa Rica (5-2) a festival of attacking football. Delightful.

Best scorer: (Santa) Klose of Germany: 5 goals, all headers.

Best goal: Edmilson stands on his head, his feet in the air to score against Costa Rica.

Best player: B. Cuahtemoc, Mexico?s #10, he has three lungs, four feet and two brains.

Best uniform: Saudi Arabia.

Best free kicks: Brazil against Turkey, Tunisia against Belgium.

Best butt: Michael Owen (England) and Beye (Senegal): choices of Jersey nurses.

Best stadium: Seoul World Cup Stadium.

Worst team: Nigeria. No one told them they were supposed to pass the ball to each other.

Worst coach: Bielsa (Argentina). He kept Crespo AND Veron on the bench! For what?

Worst game: Germany-Cameroon: 14 cards (2 red). The Germans were despicable.

Worst uniform: Portugal?s shorts.

Worst forward: Jay Jay Okocha.

Worst caveat: some tickets never made it to those who bought them a year + ago.

Worst linesman: the guy who cancelled Vieri?s goal.

Worst tackle: Joa Pinto during Portugal-South Korea. He was sent off and will be hung.

Worst penalty: Zurawski (Poland) against the U.S.

Worst reporting TV station: ABC

In case you have not noticed, survived into the second tour:

From South America: two teams out of five: Brazil and Paraguay

From Africa, only one team out of five: Senegal

From Asia, two teams out of four: South Korea and Japan

From CONCACAF: two teams out of three: U.S.A and Mexico

From Europe: nine teams out of fifteen.

CONCACAF did best: 66.6%

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(Odler Robert Jeanlouie, Saturday, June 15, 2002)