Every Football

Opening match of 12th June was Australia vs Japan. Japan had a strong team and they had hosted the World Cup last time. Australia's footabll team is not as famous and as good as it's other sports teams like Cricket and Hockey. Captained by Viduka and the only known player is Hary Kewel of Liverpool. Japan took the lead in the first half when thier striker, besides heading the ball, pushed the Ausi keeper so that he may not stop the incomming cross of the midfielder. The foul was not seen neither by the refree nor by the linesman. The scored remained 1-0 till the final whistle blew.

United States played against Nedved's Czech Republic. The inexperienced USA team were no match for the experienced Czech's and had to face a 3-0 defeat. Paul Nedved of Juventus and Petr Cech of Chelsea were amongst key players of Czech Republic.

Italy took on Ghana in the final match of the day. Italy have won the World Cup before and had the famous Fransisco Totti to win them the match. But there were other players as well. The winning goal was scored by Inaquinta who had suffered an extreamely dangerous foul before and had recieved a yellow card as well for throwing the ball away when Ghana had recieved a free kick.