The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has ...

, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the senior men's teams of the national associations affiliated to

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(the International Federation of Association Football). The tournament was played in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998 and featured 32 teams divided into eight groups of four. Each team was required to submit a squad of 22 players – numbered sequentially from 1 to 22 – from whom they would select their teams for each match at the tournament, with the final squads to be submitted by 1 June 1998. In total, 704 players were selected for the tournament. It featured players born in four different decades, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. The only other times this has happened at a World Cup was in the

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, 1970 and

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editions. ''Players' ages as of 10 June 1998, the tournament's opening day.''

Group A

Brazil

Head coach:

Mário Zagallo Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (; born 9 August 1931) is a Brazilian former professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward. Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He was ...

Morocco

Head coach: Henri Michel

Norway

Head coach: Egil Olsen

Scotland

Head coach: Craig Brown

Group B

Austria

Head coach: Herbert Prohaska

Cameroon

Head coach:

Claude Le Roy Claude Le Roy (born 6 February 1948) is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Senegal and Ghana national teams. He was most recently the manager of the Togo national team. Ma ...

Chile

Head coach:

Nelson Acosta Nelson Bonifacio Acosta López, nicknamed ''Pelado Acosta'' (''Bald'' Acosta), (born 12 June 1944 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan-born Chilean football manager and footballer. He became a naturalized Chilean citizen in 1984 ...

Italy

Head coach: Cesare Maldini

Group C

Denmark

Head coach: Bo Johansson

France

Head coach:

Aimé Jacquet Aimé Étienne Jacquet (born 27 November 1941) is a French former professional football manager and player. He was manager of the France national football team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Biography Jacquet was born in Sail-sous-Couzan, ...

Saudi Arabia

Head coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira (fired after two matches, replaced by

Mohammed Al-Kharashy Mohammed Al-Kharashi is a Saudi Arabian football manager. Career In the 1994 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, he tool charge the Saudi Arabian national soccer team for their final match, after their original manager kendono was fired. He led Saudi ...

for the final match)

South Africa

Head coach: Philippe Troussier * Andre Arendse (#22) was injured before the start of the tournament. His replacement, Paul Evans, was also injured shortly after arriving as a replacement.

Simon Gopane Motshweneng Simon Gopane (born 26 December 1970 in Bloemfontein) is a South African football coach and a former international goalkeeper. Throughout his career he played for Bloemfontein Celtic, Jomo Cosmos, Umtata Bush Bucks and Mamelodi Su ...

was then called up, and sat on the bench for the last two matches.

Group D

Bulgaria

Head coach: Hristo Bonev

Nigeria

Head coach: Bora Milutinović

Paraguay

Head coach:

Paulo César Carpegiani Paulo César Carpegiani (born 7 February 1949, in Erechim) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a midfielder. Playing career Carpegiani began his professional career at Sport Club Internacional of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do ...

Spain

Head coach: Javier Clemente

Group E

Belgium

Head coach:

Georges Leekens Georges Leekens (born 18 May 1949) is a Belgian football manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of four national teams: the Belgian, Tunisian, Algerian and Hungarian national football teams. He also manage ...

Mexico

Head coach: Manuel Lapuente

Netherlands

Head coach: Guus Hiddink

South Korea

Head coach: Cha Bum-kun (fired after two matches, replaced by Kim Pyung-seok for the final match)

Group F

Germany

Head coach:

Berti Vogts Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts (; born 30 December 1946) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga his whole professional club career and won the FIFA World Cup w ...

Note: Kirsten and Marschall also earned additional caps for East Germany (49 and 4, respectively).

Iran

Head coach:

Jalal Talebi Jalal Talebi ( fa, جلال طالبی, born 23 March 1942) is a retired Iranian football player and manager. Playing career Talebi had a very short playing career in which he played for Daraei, Taj (Esteghlal) and the Iran national football ...

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United States

Head coach:

Steve Sampson Mark Stephen Sampson (born January 19, 1957) is an American soccer coach. He is also the former head coach of both the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Collegiate career Sampson attended UCLA ...

FR Yugoslavia

Head coach:

Slobodan Santrač Slobodan Santrač (, ; 1 July 1946 – 13 February 2016) was a Serbian football manager and player. He is the all-time top scorer of the Yugoslav First League with a total of 218 goals, as well as the top scorer in the history of OFK Beograd. ...

Group G

Colombia

Head coach:

Hernán Darío Gómez Hernán Darío Gómez Jaramillo (; born 3 February 1956), also known as El Bolillo (; ''The Baton''), is a Colombian former football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. Career He was an active player from 1966 to 198 ...

England

Head coach:

Glenn Hoddle Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport. He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea an ...

Romania

Head coach:

Anghel Iordănescu Anghel Iordănescu (; born 4 May 1950), also known as "Tata Puiu", is a Romanian former footballer and former manager of the Romania national team, who played as a forward. In 2007, Iordănescu retired from football, and the following Februa ...

Tunisia

Head coach: Henryk Kasperczak (fired after two matches, replaced by Ali Selmi for the final match)

Group H

Argentina

Head coach: Daniel Passarella

Croatia

Head coach:

Miroslav Blažević Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević (; born 10 February 1935) is a Croatian former professional football manager and player. His professional playing career spanned from 1954 to 1966, during which he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva Zagreb, FK Sar ...

Jamaica

Head coach: Renê Simões

Japan

Head coach: Takeshi Okada

Player representation by league

The English, Spanish, Japanese and Saudi Arabian squads were made up entirely of players from the respective countries' domestic leagues. The Nigeria squad was made up entirely of players employed by foreign clubs. Only three teams, Japan, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, had no players from European clubs. Although

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and

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failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 9 players, respectively. Altogether, there were 38 national leagues who had players in the tournament.

References

Planet World Cup website
* weltfussball.d

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