View images of soccer culture from the 2002 World Cup.
There's love and war, there are coups and revolution, but for sheer fervor and national pride, there's only World Cup Soccer.
Forget the NBA finals and the Super Bowl, they are parochial side-shows compared to the quadrennial sports spasm now electrifying the globe from fields in Seoul and Tokyo. It's big business and billions of fans, linked together by satellite dishes and a universe of flickering televisions in all-night cafes from Bangkok to Barcelona.
When the French won the last cup, it sparked the largest street celebration since the liberation of Paris. It's all about athletics and identity, hope and historical reckoning. Britain won the Falklands War, but Argentina can still slay the English on the football pitch.
