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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (1153)10/7/2001 9:55:59 AM
From: George Papadopoulos  Read Replies (1) of 5130
 
Bora makes it official, five national teams taken to the WC, is the guy a legend or what?

China reach World Cup finals for first time

SHENYANG, China, Oct 7 (Reuters) - China reached the World Cup
finals for the first time on Sunday with a scrappy 1-0 win over lowly
Oman in an Asian Zone group B qualifier.

A nervous Chinese display in cold drizzle before 60,000 fans in the
northeastern industrial city of Shenyang was enough to break a World
Cup jinx going all the way back to the 1950s.

The dull match was an anti-climax watched by hundreds of millions of
television viewers, but it means China have qualified automatically for the
2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea with two games to spare.

China had to wait until the 37th minute to score through midfielder Yu
Genwei, who was replacing the suspended Qi Hong. Yu clipped the ball
home from five metres after a centre was nodded back across goal by the
joint efforts of two team mates.

Early in the second half, China squandered an opportunity to seal the
match against an Omani side that had scored only once while conceding
11 goals in their five Group B qualifiers.

Yang Chen skipped past Omani goalkeeper Sulaiman Al Mazroi only to
see his weak shot from a narrow angle blocked.
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