Akankah Zico Dipecat?

Dalam hitungan kurang dari 15 menit, kemenangan didepan mata tiba-tiba lenyap. Itulah nasib salah satu wakil Asia, Samurai Blue. Dan segera, hujan kritik tertuju ke Pele Putih. Sampai Perdana Menteri pun ikut ngomong.


Sankei Sports
“We should have been having a good drink to celebrate victory, but after a dramatic turnaround, we ended up having to drown our sorrows”.

Yomiuri Shimbun
“The leadership qualities of the two coaches was the difference between the two teams”. It then went on to heap praise on the Socceroos’ Dutch tactician Guus Hiddink: “Hiddink wielded his magic again; all Australia’s goals came from the substitutes that he brought on”.


Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
"We’ll just have to give it our all in the next game"