Oct. 2, 2002- North Korea vs. Japan - Women's Football
North Korea 1 - - Japan 0
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The Bathroom Break - After a lot of first half bonding between the local fans and the visiting North Korean supporters (clad in their Nike caps), the bathroom break halftime show began. As a wall of sturdy looking plain clothes officers surrounded the bathrooms reserved for the North Koreans, the Koreans on both sides of the wall exchanged "anyong haseyo's" and waved vigorously at each other.
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The Japanese Cheer Squad - At the Asian Games, Korea has kept up its well intentioned tradition of providing cheer squads for visiting teams, who may not have many fans from their home country to cheer for them. This is more difficult in some cases than others. With the local fans clearly rooting for their Northern cousins, this was one of those cases. In order to entice people to join the Japan cheering section, danishes and drinks were offered. They managed to fill the section and the cheerguy was a nonstop source of loud 'Nippon' chants, but the supporters were less than enthusiastic. Even the cheerguy confessed that he couldn't bring himself to say 'Japan Fighting!'. After halftime, many of the supporters 'took their danish and ran' to a different section.
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Womens
Football (a non expert opinion) - When it comes to rough play, the women seem
every bit as tough as their male counterparts, especially when it comes to drilling
the ball into an opponent's body. To the ladies' credit, there were noticeably
fewer yellow and red cards and was virtually no whining or flailing on the ground,
pretend or otherwise.
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