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An Empty Feeling.(Japan and South Korea host 2002 World Cup soccer tournament)(Statistical Data Included)
It was a banner day for Asian football. Only hours after China's World Cup debut, Japan scored its first World Cup point ever by battling Belgium to a 2-2 draw. Then South Korea, a team that had not won a single Cup game in 48 years, capped the day with a stunning 2-0 upset over Poland. But even as the celebrations began, red cards were flying- -off the field. If the games were officially sold out, angry fans wanted to know, why did the television cameras show large banks of empty seats in the stadiums? In the Cup's first week, more than 100,000 seats went vacant, and the embarrassed hosts quickly blamed the Cup's official ticketing agency. Even before Japan's opening ...
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