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| WORLD CUP 1994 Venue Name/Stadium/Location/Capacity Boston-Foxboro Stadium-Foxboro, Massachusetts-61,000 Chicago-Soldier Field-Chicago, Illinois-67,000 Dallas-Cotton Bowl-Dallas, Texas-67,000 Detroit-Pontiac Silverdome-Pontiac, Michigan-80,000 Los Angeles-Rose Bowl-Pasadena, California-91,000 NY/NJ-Giants Stadium-East Rutherford, New Jersey-77,000 Orlando-Citrus Bowl-Orlando, Florida-70,000 San Francisco-Stanford Stadium-Palo Alto, California-80,000 Washington-RFK Stadium-Washington, D.C.-56,000 The Select 1.Argentina 2.Belgium 3.Bolivia 4.Brazil 5.Bulgaria 6.Cameroon 7.Colombia 8.Germany 9.Greece 10.Republic of Ireland 11.Italy 12.Italy 13.Korea Republic 14.Mexico 15.Morocco 16.Netherlands 17.Nigeria 18.Norway 19.Romania 20.Russia 21.Uruguay 22.Spain 23.Switzerland 24.United States Quarto championship para Os Canarinhos The 1994 Soccer World Cup was held in the USA, and won by Brazil who beat Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks after the game and extra time ended 0-0. Unqualified 147 countries - a new record - entered for the FIFA World Cup 94 qualifiers. Among them was South Africa, back after a lengthy exclusion. Many big guns, however, were not to make it to the finals: England, Denmark, the 1992 European champions, Portugal, Poland, and once again France, knocked out by a Bulgarian goal in the last second of their last qualifying game. Also excluded was Yugoslavia, where civil war raged with Bosnia. 24 counties competed in the finals of the 15th FIFA World Cup. Record Attendance FIFA's decision in 1988 to hold the event in the United States surprised many considering the relative lack of soccer fans there (aside from a significant fan-base within the Latin American immigrant population). Despite these misgivings, in terms of attendance the event was a rousing success. The average attendance of nearly 69,000 shattered a record that had stood since 1950. The total attendance for the final tournament of nearly 3.6 million remains the greatest in World Cup history, despite the expansion of the competition to 32 teams in 1998. The overall attendance record will not be broken until at least 2010, as the maximum possible attendance for the 2006 World Cup is less than 3.5 million. The format The format of the competition stayed the same as in 1990: 24 teams qualified, divided into six groups of four. Sixteen teams would qualify for the knockout competition: six group winners, six second place finishers, and four best third place finishers. This World Cup was the first in which winners of group matches received three points for a win instead of two. Surprises, Drama and Tragedy There were plenty of goals, excitement, drama and surprises. The first round, where a win was now worth 3 points, threw up a few surprises, with the USA and Saudi Arabia-whose striker Saed Owairan almost certainly scored the best goal of the tournament-sneaking into the last sixteen. The Russians, on the other hand, despite Oleg Salenko scoring five goals against Cameroon (a record), did not make it. And neither did Roger Milla and his indomitable Lions, though Milla confirmed his "title" as the tournament's oldest goal-scorer, at 42 years 1 month and 8 days. Bulgaria, which had never won a FIFA World Cup match in 16 previous attempts, turned the biggest upsets beating Germany en route to the semifinals. There was drama when Diego Maradona, Argentina's hero of 1986, tested positive for drugs and was expelled from the tournament, and there was tragedy too when Colombian Andres Escobar was murdered days after returning home from scoring an own goal against the United States. The hosts were not disgraced, going out to Brazil in the second round. The Brazilians were the best team in the tournament and were deserving winners. Champions Collide The final pitted Brazil against Italy, two nations which had already won the FIFA World Cup three times. But what in theory was the ideal match, proved to be a dour, physical and ultimately disappointing game. And for the first time in FIFA World Cup history, it all came down to penalties. As he stepped up, Italy's savior, Roberto Baggio, knew he had to score. But his penalty flew high into the blue California sky and the Brazilians were champions again, 24 years after their last success. Brazil had also become the first nation to win the FIFA World Cup four times. |
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