Brazil's run in 2002 was: China, Costa Rica, Turkey, (a shit) Belgium, Trevor Sinclair, Turkey again, and finally a very pedestrian German side who had had a piss easy run themselves. Of all World Cup wins this was possibly the biggest second-gear crowning.
Argentina should have been favourites for that on paper but chose our favourite maverick coach to send them to a group stage exit; Italy should have been up there too, but made a complete mess of the group and then suffered from a severe dose of entitlement vs South Korea (and a bit of shit reffing, but in their case that is very overplayed because of said entitlement, the real shit reffing was in Korea v Spain).
Holland definitely had the players too, but forgot to qualify.