England in World Cup 2002
Squad Records

  World Cup 2002 Final Tournament
31 May to 30 June in Japan and Korea

The career appearances and goals totals include the two matches played after the squad was announced on 9 May and before the tournament began on 31 May, the friendlies against South Korea on 21 May and Cameroon on 26 May.

Two England squad players celebrated birthdays between the announcement of the squad on 9 May and England's first final tournament match on 2 June:  Danny Mills, his 25th on 18 May, and Steven Gerrard, his 22nd on 30 May, which was after he had withdrawn from the squad.  

One England player celebrated his birthday during England's participation in the tournament, Darius Vassell, his 22nd on 13 June, the day after England's third group match against Nigeria.

Steven Gerrard withdrew from the original squad because of injury before the tournament.  Danny Murphy, who had been placed on standby status when the original squad was announced, was given a late call to the squad, but he, too, withdrew before the tournament because of injury.  Trevor Sinclair, put on standby when Gerrard withdrew and Murphy was called, was then given a late call to the squad when Murphy withdrew.

Notes

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Player Awards

World Cup 2002 Leading Goalscorers
Rank	Player	P	Mins	G	PK
1	Ronaldo, Brazil	7	548	8	0
=2	Klose, Miroslav, Germany	7	561	5	0
	Rivaldo, Brazil	7	610	5	1
=4	Vieri, Christian, Italy	4	387	4	0
	Tomasson, Jon Dahl, Denmark	4	360	4	1
=6	Pauleta, Portugal	3	248	3	0
	Raśl, Spain	4	340	3	0
	Wilmots, Marc, Belgium	4	360	3	0
	Morientes, Fernando, Spain	5	336	3	0
	Diop, Papa Bouba, Senegal	5	468	3	0
	Mansiz, Ilhan, Turkey	7	210	3	0
	Ballack, Michael, Germany	6	540	3	0
	Larsson, Henrik, Sweden	4	371	3	1
	Keane, Robbie, Republic of Ireland	4	390	3	1
=15	13 players, including one England	-	-	2	-
	Owen, Michael, England	5	368	2	0
=28	79 players, including four England	-	-	1	-
	Heskey, Emile, England	5	369	1	0
	Campbell, Sol, England	5	450	1	0
	Ferdinand, Rio, England	5	450	1	0
	Beckham, David, England	5	422	1	1

Notes

Brazil's Ronaldo won the Golden Shoe Award as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals in seven matches, the highest total at a World Cup tournament since 1970, when West Germany's Gerd Mueller scored 10 in six games.  For the second successive tournament, no England player scored more than two goals, and this time only Michael Owen did it, duplicating his two goals at World Cup 1998 but playing one more game and this time starting all matches.  David Beckham duplicated his single goal at the 1998 tournament by way of a penalty kick.  Three England players, including two defenders, joined the World Cup goalscoring ranks, Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand and Emile Heskey.

 

World Cup 2002 Best Players
Rank	Player	Pos	P	Mins	G	PK	Votes	Vote %
1	Oliver Kahn, Germany	G	7	630	3 GA 5 CS	-	147	25
2	Ronaldo, Brazil	F	7	548	8	0	126	21
3	Hong Myung Bo, Korea Rep.	D	7	596	0	0	108	18
4	Rivaldo, Brazil	M	7	610	5	1	93	16
5	Ronaldinho, Brazil	M	5	331	2	1	54	9
6	Hasan Sas, Turkey	F	6	538	2	0	26	4
7	El Hadji Diouf, Senegal	F	5	468	0	0	15	3
8	Roberto Carlos, Brazil	D	6	540	1	0	12	2
9	Michael Ballack, Germany	M	6	540	3	0	6	1
10	Fernando Hierro, Spain	D	4	420	2	2	5	1
-	All	-	-	-	-	-	592	100

Notes

Germany's Oliver Kahn became the first goalkeeper to win the Golden Ball Award as the best player at the World Cup 2002 final tournament.  Brazil's Ronaldo, second in the voting, won the Silver Ball Award, and  South Korea's Hong Myung Bo, in third place, won the Bronze Ball Award.

The FIFA Technical Study Group nominated a shortlist of 10 players for the Golden Ball Award on 27 June.  No England players were on the list.  The winner was chosen by vote of media representatives attending the third-place and final matches on  29 and 30 June.  It may have been determinative that the media voting was largely conducted before Kahn's bobble led to Brazil's first goal in the final match and before Ronaldo scored his two goals in that match.

The sponsor of the awards, Adidas, presented a new Golden Ball trophy, with a design based on the Adidas ball used at World Cup 1962 in Chile.  The trophy bears the names of the five past winners of the award--Paolo Rossi, Italy, Diego Maradona, Argentina, Toto Schillaci, Italy, Romario, Brazil, and Ronaldo, Brazil--to which the names of later winners will be added.

World Cup 2002 Best Goalkeeper

Kahn was also named winner of the Yashin Award, named after late Soviet Union goalkeeping great Lev Yashin, as the best goalkeeper at World Cup 2002.  The winner was chosen by the FIFA Technical Study Group and announced just before the final match on 30 June.  Kahn conceded just one goal in six matches ahead of the final,, to the Republic of Ireland's Robbie Keane during time added on in group play.  In the final, Kahn let in two more goals by Brazil's Ronaldo, the first of which came after he bobbled the ball, but by that time the award already had been made.

World Cup 2002 All-Star Team

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