The
1998 FIFA World Cup
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the ...
was the 16th
FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
tournament contested by the senior men's teams of the national associations affiliated to
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
(the International Federation of Association Football). The tournament was played in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998 and featured 32 teams divided into eight groups of four. Each team was required to submit a squad of 22 players – numbered sequentially from 1 to 22 – from whom they would select their teams for each match at the tournament, with the final squads to be submitted by 1 June 1998. In total, 704 players were selected for the tournament.
It featured players born in four different decades, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. The only other times this has happened at a World Cup was in the
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
,
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
and
1990
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editions.
''Players' ages as of 10 June 1998, the tournament's opening day.''
Group A
Brazil
Head coach:
Mário Zagallo
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (; born 9 August 1931) is a Brazilian former professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward.
Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He was t ...
Morocco
Head coach:
Henri Michel
Henri Louis Michel (28 October 1947 – 24 April 2018) was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the wor ...
Norway
Head coach:
Egil Olsen
Scotland
Head coach:
Craig Brown
Group B
Austria
Head coach:
Herbert Prohaska
Cameroon
Head coach:
Claude Le Roy
Claude Le Roy (born 6 February 1948) is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Senegal and Ghana national teams. He was most recently the manager of the Togo national team.
Ma ...
Chile
Head coach:
Nelson Acosta
Nelson Bonifacio Acosta López, nicknamed ''Pelado Acosta'' (''Bald'' Acosta), (born 12 June 1944 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan-born Chilean football manager and footballer. He became a naturalized Chilean citizen in 1984 ...
Italy
Head coach:
Cesare Maldini
Cesare Maldini (; 5 February 1932 – 3 April 2016) was an Italian professional football manager and player who played as a defender.
Father to Paolo Maldini and grandfather to Daniel Maldini, Cesare began his career with Italian side Triestin ...
Group C
Denmark
Head coach:
Bo Johansson
France
Head coach:
Aimé Jacquet
Aimé Étienne Jacquet (born 27 November 1941) is a French former professional football manager and player. He was manager of the France national football team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Biography
Jacquet was born in Sail-sous-Couzan, L ...
Saudi Arabia
Head coach:
Carlos Alberto Parreira (fired after two matches, replaced by
Mohammed Al-Kharashy
Mohammed Al-Kharashi is a Saudi Arabian football manager.
Career
In the 1994 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, he tool charge the Saudi Arabian national soccer team for their final match, after their original manager kendono was fired. He led Saud ...
for the final match)
South Africa
Head coach:
Philippe Troussier
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Andre Arendse
Andre Leander Arendse (born 27 June 1967) is a South African former soccer player who played as a goalkeeper.
He now works as an assistant and goalkeeper coach for Supersport United and has also been a co-presenter with SuperSport.
Playing c ...
(#22) was injured before the start of the tournament. His replacement,
Paul Evans, was also injured shortly after arriving as a replacement.
Simon Gopane
Motshweneng Simon Gopane (born 26 December 1970 in Bloemfontein) is a South African Association football, football coach and a former international Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Throughout his career he played for Bloemfontein ...
was then called up, and sat on the bench for the last two matches.
Group D
Bulgaria
Head coach:
Hristo Bonev
Nigeria
Head coach:
Bora Milutinović
Paraguay
Head coach:
Paulo César Carpegiani
Paulo César Carpegiani (born 7 February 1949, in Erechim) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Carpegiani began his professional career at Sport Club Internacional of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Su ...
Spain
Head coach:
Javier Clemente
Group E
Belgium
Head coach:
Georges Leekens
Georges Leekens (born 18 May 1949) is a Belgian football manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of four national teams: the Belgian, Tunisian, Algerian and Hungarian national football teams. He also managed ...
Mexico
Head coach:
Manuel Lapuente
Netherlands
Head coach:
Guus Hiddink
Guus Hiddink (; born 8 November 1946) is a Dutch former football manager and professional player. He enjoyed a long career playing as a midfielder in his native Netherlands. Retired as player in 1982, Hiddink went into management, leading both c ...
South Korea
Head coach:
Cha Bum-kun (fired after two matches, replaced by
Kim Pyung-seok
Kim Pyung-seok (; born 22 September 1958) is retired football player and manager.
He played in K League side Hyundai Horang-i and Yukong Elephants in South Korea.
Early life
He started football when he was high school student. He graduat ...
for the final match)
Group F
Germany
Head coach:
Berti Vogts
Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts (; born 30 December 1946) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga his whole professional club career and won the FIFA World Cup wi ...
Note: Kirsten and Marschall also earned additional caps for East Germany (49 and 4, respectively).
Iran
Head coach:
Jalal Talebi
Jalal Talebi ( fa, جلال طالبی, born 23 March 1942) is a retired Iranian football player and manager.
Playing career
Talebi had a very short playing career in which he played for Daraei, Taj (Esteghlal) and the Iran national football ...
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United States
Head coach: Steve Sampson
Mark Stephen Sampson (born January 19, 1957) is an American soccer coach. He is also the former head coach of both the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.
Collegiate career
Sampson attended UCLA ...
FR Yugoslavia
Head coach: Slobodan Santrač
Slobodan Santrač (, ; 1 July 1946 – 13 February 2016) was a Serbian football manager and player. He is the all-time top scorer of the Yugoslav First League with a total of 218 goals, as well as the top scorer in the history of OFK Beograd. As m ...
Group G
Colombia
Head coach: Hernán Darío Gómez
Hernán Darío Gómez Jaramillo (; born 3 February 1956), also known as El Bolillo (; ''The Baton''), is a Colombian former football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder.
Career
He was an active player from 1966 to 198 ...
England
Head coach: Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport.
He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and Swi ...
Romania
Head coach: Anghel Iordănescu
Anghel Iordănescu (; born 4 May 1950), also known as "Tata Puiu", is a Romanian former footballer and former manager of the Romania national team, who played as a forward. In 2007, Iordănescu retired from football, and the following February ...
Tunisia
Head coach: Henryk Kasperczak (fired after two matches, replaced by Ali Selmi
Ali Selmi is a football manager from Tunisia.
In the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals, he took charge of the Tunisia national football team for their final group match, after original manager Henryk Kasperczak was fired after two losses and saw the t ...
for the final match)
Group H
Argentina
Head coach: Daniel Passarella
Croatia
Head coach: Miroslav Blažević
Jamaica
Head coach: Renê Simões
Japan
Head coach: Takeshi Okada
Player representation by league
The English, Spanish, Japanese and Saudi Arabian squads were made up entirely of players from the respective countries' domestic leagues. The Nigeria squad was made up entirely of players employed by foreign clubs. Only three teams, Japan, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, had no players from European clubs.
Although Turkey and Portugal failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 9 players, respectively. Altogether, there were 38 national leagues who had players in the tournament.
References
Planet World Cup website
* weltfussball.d
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