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<span class="vitstoryheadline">World Cup notebook</span>
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<span class="vitstorydate">07/01/2002</span>
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<span class="vitstorybyline">From Wire Reports</span>
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    <b><font size="3" face="geneva,arial,helvetica">Ronaldo now in select 
    company</font></b>

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      Ronaldo's two goals in Sunday's final put him in elite company. Nine 
      players, three of them Brazilians, have scored two or more goals in a 
      World Cup final.
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    <p>
      Two sets of teammates have each scored a pair in a World Cup final. Vava 
      and Pele led Brazil to its first World Cup title in 1958, scoring two 
      apeice. Gino Colaussi and Silvio Piola scored twice for Italy in the 
      1938 final, a 4-2 win over Hungary.
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    <p>
      Geoff Hurst is the only player to record a hat trick in a final, for 
      England in 1966.
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      <b><font size="3" face="geneva,arial,helvetica">Official may be sign of 
      tough times</font></b>
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    <p>
      German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn had an idea his team might be in trouble 
      in the World Cup final against Brazil as soon as the name of the referee 
      was announced.
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      It's not that he's got anything against Italian official Pierluigi 
      Collina, widely regarded as the world's best referee. It's that Kahn's 
      teams always seem to lose whenever Collina is in charge.
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    <p>
      Collina was the referee when Manchester United scored two injury time 
      goals to beat Bayern Munich 2-1 in the 1999 European Champions League 
      final. Then, in a World Cup qualifier last September, England came to 
      Munich and won 5-1.
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      <b><font size="3" face="geneva,arial,helvetica">Determining champ took 
      some time</font></b>
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    <p>
      It took two years, three months and 26 days to determine the new world 
      champion.
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    <p>
      Marvin Andrews scored the first goal in this World Cup adventure on 
      March 4, 2000, as Trinidad and Tobago defeated the Netherlands Antilles 
      5-0 in a first-round CONCACAF qualifier. And 840 matches later, Ronaldo 
      scored the 2,613th goal of World Cup play, earning Brazil its fifth 
      title.
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    <p>
      Of the 193 teams that participated in the World Cup, the Netherlands 
      Antilles was the first eliminated from the competition, while three-time 
      champion Germany was the 192nd.
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      <b><font size="3" face="geneva,arial,helvetica">Koreans showing true 
      color in drink</font></b>
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    <p>
      Jubilant South Koreans are celebrating their soccer team's stunning 
      showing in the World Cup by dying their hair red, sporting tattoos of 
      the country's flag, and bestowing honors of every sort on Coach Guus 
      Hiddink. Now comes red-hued cocktails in honor of the beloved squad.
    </p>
    <p>
      &quot;The Red Devil&quot; (named for the team's booster group) is made of vodka, 
      sloe gin, cherry brandy, pineapple juice and grenadine syrup. &quot;Korea 
      Team Fighting,&quot; meantime, is a concoction of champagne, strawberry 
      syrup, lime juice and cranberry juice.
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      <b><font size="3" face="geneva,arial,helvetica">Brazilians show elation 
      with win</font></b>
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    <p>
      RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &#8211; The sounds of car horns, plastic trumpets and 
      fireworks filled the air as Brazil celebrated an unprecedented fifth 
      World Cup title.
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    <p>
      Samba drums set thousands of beach-goers dancing in their bathing suits 
      and yellow Brazil jerseys before a giant-screen TV set up on Rio de 
      Janeiro's Copacabana beach.
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    <p>
      Tears smudged the green and yellow paint on the faces of teen-agers and 
      strangers hugged each other amid cries of &quot;Brazil! Brazil!&quot; and 
      &quot;Five-time champion!&quot;
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    <p>
      Across the nation, from the Pampas to the Amazon rainforest, fans could 
      barely contain their joy.
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