Please tell me the details of previous World Cups (soccer) in Croatia, Australia and Japan.

1998 World Cup in France, Croatia unexpectedly won the third place, attracting worldwide attention.

But since then, their world rankings have plummeted. In 15 games after the 998 World Cup, Claudie.

Asians only won three games, and such poor results cost them the chance to participate in the 2000 European Football Championship.

The Croatian national team has not been independent for a long time, but it has been shortlisted for the World Cup finals twice in a row, and he

Scientists now seem to have found the omnipotent feeling of 1998. Although this new and old team is full of confidence,

But they don't have any expectations for the World Cup.

Although Croatia has many new faces now, many stars who participated in the last World Cup are still there.

Including D'Arvor Sucher and Robert Prosenetsky (Portsmouth, Yugoslavia), winners of the last Golden Boot Award,

Mario stanic (Chelsea), Robert Gianni (Palmas), hereby

Venemir soldo (Stuttgart), Igor ShTymark (Yugoslav Iduk Spock

Park Jung-soo), igor tudor (Juventus, Italy), dario simic (Inter Milan, Italy)

Blue Team), Boshko balaban (Aston Villa), Roberts kovac, niko kovac.

Brothers (Bayern Munich), Allen Boksic, etc. They have all played in the top leagues in Europe for many years.

The Croatian team is indeed facing many problems at present, the most prominent of which is how to balance Sucher, Gianni,

The relationship between veterans like Prosen Neski and talented teenagers like soldo. The new coach mirko Jorge.

Things have changed a lot since Pi Nuo Qi took over the team from legendary coach miroslav blazevic.

The morale of the players was high, and they advanced to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea with 5 wins and 3 draws unbeaten in the qualifiers.

Croatian historical figures include zvonimir boban, slaven bilic and Drazan Jelkovic.

Pinocchio and Josep Skobla, etc.

Performance statistics: 1998, third place in the World Cup in France.

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Australia:

Xinhuanet Canberra, July 22 nd Dutch coach Hiddink was officially appointed as the head coach of the Australian football team on the 22nd, with the task of leading the team into the 2006 World Cup finals.

The Australian Football Association announced the news on the same day. Frank Roy, president of the Football Association, was very impressed by Hiddink's arrival and thought his coaching record was excellent. If Australia wants to enter the World Cup finals next year, there is no more suitable head coach than Hiddink.

Hiddink's most brilliant career was to lead South Korea into the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup. He also led the Dutch team to the semi-finals of the 1998 World Cup.

After the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Hiddink chose to retire to the Netherlands, leading Eindhoven not only to win the Dutch First Division and the Dutch Cup, but also to reach the semi-finals of the European Champions League.

Farina, the former head coach of the Australian team, resigned last month because his team lost three games in the Confederations Cup. Australia's next match is the World Cup qualifier with Solomon Islands in September. The winner will play the knockout match with South America's fifth team in June165438+1October to compete for the World Cup in Germany. If Australia succeeds in the World Cup, Hiddink will continue to lead the team to Germany.

According to the agreement, Hiddink will take office immediately, but he will continue to coach PSV at the same time.

Japan:

The new Asian hegemon-Japan Football Team (Figure)

Family portrait of Japanese national team

1998, the Japanese football team entered the World Cup finals for the first time. In 2002, Japan, as one of the hosts, automatically qualified for the World Cup finals.

1In September, 873, English sailors introduced football to Japan. More than 40 years later, Japan held its first international competition. It took them more than a century to enter the World Cup finals. 19 17 Japan successfully hosted the first international football match-the Far East Games. In recognition of them, the British Football Association presented a beautiful silver medal to the Japanese Football Association on 19 19. During World War II, this medal was confiscated by the government to supplement the financial resources of the army. now

No longer exists. 1922. The first Japan Football Championship started, and four university teams took part in the competition. 1927, Japan won the international championship for the first time. However, in 1936, the Japanese team lost to Sweden 2-3 when they participated in the Berlin Olympic Games for the first time. Because of the war, Japan did not participate in the Olympic Games for 20 years. 1956 Return to Melbourne Olympic Games. 65438-0960, Dettmar Graemer of Germany was invited to Japan as a technical consultant. 1964, the Japanese national team entered the top 8 of the Tokyo Olympic Games. 1968, the Japanese team won the third place in the Mexican Olympic Games, which was the best result of the Japanese football team in major world competitions. Gremer quickly improved the level of Japanese football in the 1960s. In the early 1990s, under the guidance of Dutch coach Marius ooft, the Japanese football team won the 1992 Hiroshima Asian Games for the first time. The following year, Japan started professional league and achieved unexpected success.

The road to the World Cup in Japanese football is full of loss and regret. USA World Cup qualifiers 1994, Japan can get tickets for the final stage as long as it draws. However, Iraq's equaliser in injury time left Japan out of the World Cup finals again.

1998, the Japanese team finally entered the World Cup finals for the first time, but they went home without winning a game. At this time, the Japanese Football Association unexpectedly appointed Frenchman omar Troussiere as the national team coach. Troussiere is the head coach of Nigeria and Burkina Faso.

In the late 1990s, after the baptism of professional leagues, Japanese football made great progress. A group of new generation players based on technical football stood out and won the Asian Cup in 2000. Japan has surpassed South Korea to become the new overlord of Asian football.

In the Confederations Cup in June 2006, 5438+0, 3-0 beat Canada, 2-0 beat Cameroon and 2-0 beat Brazil 0-0, leading the group. 1: 0 defeated Australia in the semi-final, but 1 narrowly defeated the world champion France in the final, showing extraordinary strength. Later, in July, they won the Kirin Cup in China, including Paraguay and Yugoslavia. August15 beat Australia 3: 0; 11:11draw with Italy on October 7th. Their outstanding performance in this series of competitions indicates that they have become the only team in Asia that can compete with world-class teams.

Most members of the Japanese team participated in the World Youth Championship from 65438 to 0999, and some experienced players, such as nakata hidetoshi, who played for Parma. Nakata is undoubtedly the most successful example of Asian players playing in the European League. There are also many Japanese athletes playing in the five major leagues in Europe, such as Junichi Inamoto, who plays in the middle school. He is a very talented athlete and now plays for Arsenal in the Premier League.

Japanese football team combines the characteristics of Brazilian football team and emphasizes the overall play. Skillful technique, skillful footwork, mostly passing with one foot, rich offensive lines and many offensive points in the frontcourt.

The famous players of Japanese football team are: Kazuyoshi Miura, nakata hidetoshi, etc.

Traditional uniforms: blue shirt, white shorts and blue socks.

Performance statistics:

World Cup entry record: 1998 entered the World Cup finals for the first time.

Olympic football score: 1968 won the third place in the Mexican Olympic Games.

Asian Cup football score: 1992, won the championship in 2000.

Asian-African competition results: 1993 won the championship.