Was USA ‘94 one of the greatest World Cups ever staged?
In the fourth episode of our new World Cup podcast, Copa Independent, Lawrence Ostlere, Miguel Delaney and Richard Jolly discuss the highs and lows of USA 94 and the tournament’s lasting legacy
America in 1994. It was the year of Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption. The rise of hip-hop, the retirement of Michael Jordan from the NBA, the arrest of OJ Simpson and the death of Kurt Cobain.
And for football fans, the US staged one of the great World Cups. When you picture USA 94, what do you think of? Roberto Baggio and that infamous miss?
Romario and those finishes? Hristo Stoichkov and Gheorge Hagi adding to their legends, as Diego Maradona’s was diminished? Is it John Aldridge swearing at an official in a yellow cap?
Is it the heat, the brightness? Diana Ross missing from the spot? The tournament perhaps didn’t have the sense of opera of Italia 90.