Italian anthem

That would explain much. Our most popular pop singer came to Korea esp. to sing the anthem. What she actually did sing I have no idea, but the tempo indicated she hadn't had a Lucozade (see http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=75331&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&vc=1#Post75331) for days. The team didn't know how to follow the words and they did what we call 'fish-style' singing (opening and closing your mouth without actually making any sound). 2 billion people watched.

She (the singer) was banned after Korea beat us 2:0..

That didn't help as Portugal scored 4...

Do you remember how it went with the USA?

Didn't help much, though...