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ALFREDO STROESSNER Paraguay After a 1989 coup ended his 35-year dictatorship, he hightailed it to Brazil, where he lives a luxurious life, with his wife, in a mansion outside the capital of Brasilia...
...final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish?whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination?Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly be described as major football powers...
...Yellow cards each against Germany and Turkey, the worst-behaved teams through the semifinals of the tournament 1 Red cards against coaches. During his team's match against Paraguay, Slovenian manager Srecko Katanec became the first person to be sent off from the bench twice in a career...
...final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish - whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination - Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly be described as major football powers...
...Playing in Group B, Spain could sleepwalk its way to the next round. With quality players like Raul Gonzalez Blanco, Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia and Gaizka Mendieta, the Spaniards should cream Paraguay, as well as Slovenia, the smallest country to qualify; and South Africa is hopelessly out of its depth with striker Sean Bartlett lost despite Benni McCarthy's recent run of form. Spain as ever oozes class. The only question seems to be: Will the Spaniards choke in the quarters this year or wait until the semis...