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	1990 World Cup
		The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the pinnacle of Roger Milla's career.
		After Mexico in 1986, the 14th FIFA World Cup returned to Europe: to Italy, a mighty footballing nation where no expense was to be spared in making the FIFA World Cup a roaring success.
		Ten of the twelve FIFA World Cup stadiums were given a complete facelift and the other two (in Turin and Bari), were built from scratch especially for the event.
	www.soccerhall.org /history/WorldCup_1990.htm (748 words)

	Football World Cup 1990: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The football world cup (official name: fifa world cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer)....
		World Champions West Germany was one of the few teams to choose an attacking style of play.
		The 1990 nhl entry draft was held june 16th at b.c....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/football_world_cup_1990.htm (5121 words)

	FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FIFA president Jules Rimet thus set about organizing the inaugural World Cup tournament to be held in Uruguay in 1930.
		The decision to hold the second of these, the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France was controversial, as the American countries had been led to understand that the World Cup would rotate between the two continents.
		The success of the host in the Cup is a major reason why nations actively lobby to be selected as hosts, as they seek to gain the advantage of a supportive crowd; however, there are also frequent accusations that FIFA arranges favourable refereeing and draws for the hosts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_World_Cup (2861 words)

	1990 FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1990 Football World Cup was designated by FIFA in 1984 to be held in Italy, making it the second country to host the event twice.
		It was won by West Germany, who beat Argentina 1-0 in the final, repeating the final of the 1986 Football World Cup.
		The World Cup 1990 is widely regarded as one of the least spectacular and most cynical World Cups ever.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_World_Cup_1990 (592 words)

	World Cup - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about World Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most world cup events are held every four years but the skiing world cup, the Alpine World Cup, is an annual event.
		The 2002 soccer World Cup was won by Brazil.
		The 1999 Rugby World Cup and the 1999 Cricket World Cup were won by Australia.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /World+Cup (141 words)

	2002 FIFA World Cup
		Instead of being embarrassed by half-empty stadiums, FIFA was rewarded with a record 3,587, 538 spectators over the course of the event and one of the best-run and best-played tournaments in World Cup history.
		FIFA also cracked down on violent fouls and tackling from behind to make life easier for offensive players, and indeed, scoring was on the upswing.
		Group F was memorable for Saudi Arabia's advance with a 1-0 defeat of Belgium on the strength of one of the greatest goals in World Cup history: midfielder Saeed Al Owairan carried the ball from his own half and picked apart the Belgian defence before pounding the ball into the Belgian goal.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/soccer/history/1994a.html (1434 words)

	ContiSoccerWorld - FIFA World Cup™ Star 1990: Lothar Matthäus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Matthäus was voted FIFA Player of the Year in 1990 and 1991, a wonderful acknowledgement of his outstanding performances.
		A World Cup winner in 1990, he was also a runner-up in 1982 and 1986.
		The superstar of the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ was however often a controversial character.
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	World Cup Winners
		The 1958 World Cup will be most remembered for the emergence of Brazilian striker Pele, who at only 17 years of age scored six goals, including two in the final match against the host team, as Brazil would capture the FIFA title, 5-2.
		In this ninth edition of the FIFA Cup, it would be now allowed for substitutions to take place throughout the matches, as well as yellow and red cards to be introduced during play.
		The first-ever World Cup hosted in the United States, it was Brazil that came away with another Cup victory.
	www.docsports.com /world-cup-winners.html (1922 words)

	FIFA World Cup: A Modest History
		Scoring 10 goals and participating in 3 World Cups (1970, 1978, 1982), he is considered one of the top players of his era.
		Controversy notwithstanding, Maradona's World Cup performances are unforgettable and firmly etched in the memories of soccer fans worldwide.
		The 1998 World Cup was supposed to be his shining moment, and he did moderately well in netting 4 goals, but the finals were a grave disappointment.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~msm3/project/players.htm (986 words)

	Futbol de Primera: The FIFA World Cup
		The FIFA World Cup is the largest and most important sporting event in the world, drawing an audience of over one billion people worldwide who watch or listen to the final match.
		For the 2006 FIFA World Cup, 31 of the 32 teams in the final round qualify through regional tournaments organized by each of the six continental confederations.
		During the FIFA World Cup, which will take place in June and July 2006, each team will play the three teams in their group once, and the top two teams from each of the eight groups will advance to the round of 16.
	www.laradiodelmundial.com /worldcup2.htm (303 words)

	ContiSoccerWorld - FIFA World Cup™ Star 1934: Guiseppe Meazza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He became a FIFA World Cup™ champion with Italy in 1934 and 1938, was the best goal scorer in the Seria A (1930, 1936, 1938), twice won both the World Club Cup (1930, 1935) and the Italian title (1930, 1938), and the Italian Cup once (1939) with Inter Milan.
		After the FIFA World Cup™ tournament, Silvio Piola, the team’s new centre forward, paid his colleague the compliment of being responsible for his own good performance: “At the FIFA World Cup™, I mainly lived off Meazza and Ferrari”.
		It was at this stadium where the German national team gained four victories and a draw in the group matches and quarter-finals on the road to their 1990 FIFA World Cup™ victory.
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	Gary Lineker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He rose to fame with Everton (1985-86), for whom he scored 30 goals in 41 games, before signing with Barcelona, with whom he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1989.
		He returned to England later that year, playing for three seasons at Tottenham Hotspur, scoring 67 in 105 games and winning the F.A. Cup, before ending his career with an injury plagued spell in the Japanese league with Nagoya Grampus Eight.
		He first played for England's national team against Scotland in 1984, winning the "Golden Boot" at the 1986 FIFA World Cup and reaching the semi-finals in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gary_lineker.html (362 words)

	Kaiserslautern 2006 FIFA World Cup, Kaiserslautern World Cup Tickets, FIFA World Cup Stadium Hannover, 2006 FIFA World ...
		The team from the Betzenbergstadion had already won the championship in 1991, and was German Cup winners in 1990 and 1996.
		There is also the unforgettable achievements of the 1950's with Fritz and Ottmar Walter, when the Kaiserslautern team formed the backbone of Germany's 1954 World Cup winning team with five players.
		With adequate luxurious as well as cheap hotels in Kaiserslautern to suit all pockets, a sound network of services such as flights to Kaiserslautern, accomodations in Kaiserslautern, restaurants in Kaiserslautern and Kaiserslautern car hires, this host city of FIFA World Cup is all prepared to welcome guests from all around the world.
	www.mapsofworld.com /2006-fifa-world-cup/host-cities/kaiserslautern.html (371 words)

	AVault \| PC \| FIFA World Cup 98 Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Seems like the World Cup was just here in the States yesterday.
		FIFA World Cup 98 (WC98) offers much of the same experience as RTWC98, but focuses solely on the World Cup and brings a number of new features to the table to enhance gameplay and your overall experience.
		If you happen to win the World Cup, you'll be able to play the Cup Classic mode, which features recreations of great World Cup finals with teams like Brazil in 1970 and Germany in 1990.
	www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=fifawc&page=1 (712 words)

	1990 FIFA World Cup (qualification) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		110 teams took part in the 1990 World Cup qualification rounds, divided into six Continental Zones.
		The 24 spots in the World Cup would be distributed as follows:
		After the Netherlands vs Germany FR match, just 11 short days after the tragedy in Hillsborough, Dutch riot police had to intervene in the streets of Rotterdam; similar scenes ensued when Chile met Brazil in Santiago in August of that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_World_Cup_1990_(qualification) (325 words)

	FIFA World Cup Trophy, 2006 FIFA World Cup Trophy, World Cup Soccer Trophy, Football World Cup Trophy
		The FIFA World Cup Trophy is made of solid gold and malachite.
		The current FIFA World Cup Trophy cannot be won outright, as the regulations state that it shall remain FIFA's own possession.
		The World Cup winners retain it until the next tournament and are awarded a gold-plated replica.
	www.mapsofworld.com /2006-fifa-world-cup/trophy.html (267 words)

	Football Alliance \| MasterCard® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Considering the diverse set of audiences the world over, the FIFA World Cup, European Football Championship, UEFA Champions League, Copa America and Copa Libertadores and their respective related events deliver a powerful platform for building the MasterCard brand globally.
		In terms of television viewership, the 2002 FIFA World Cup had a cumulative television audience of 28.8 billion worldwide in a total of 213 countries over the 64 FIFA World Cup matches.
		More than 2,300 members leveraged the FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan in 2002, with a 12.5% increase in member spend compared to the 1998 World Cup in France.
	www.mastercardintl.com /newsroom/football_alliance.html (1321 words)

	Teams of FIFA World Cup 2002 - Cameroon - by La Cancha-News On World Cup 2002
		Cameroon's Indomitable Lions will be competing in the FIFA World Cup™ for the fifth time, a record for the African continent, and again go into the tournament with high hopes of being able to set new benchmarks for African soccer.
		It is the fourth successive appearance for Cameroon, who are also reigning African champions and hold the distinction of being the only side from the continent to have reached the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup.
		It was in Italy in 1990 that Cameroon captured the world's imagination with their charismatic team, characterised by the unique goal celebrations of 38 year-old Roger Milla.
	www.lacancha.com /Teams_Cameroon.html (237 words)

	ipedia.com: Diego Maradona Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He led the Argentinian national team to victory in the World Cup in 1986, the team winning 3-2 in the final against West Germany.
		In the 1994 World Cup he was sent home in disgrace after failing a drugs test for ephedrine doping.
		In Naples, where he is still beloved (having brought the local team their first scudetto), he also faced a scandal regarding an illegitimate son and was the object of some suspicion over his friendship with the Camorra, the local mafia.
	www.ipedia.com /diego_maradona.html (969 words)

	guichett - 31992D0521 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The specifications and conditions, signed by the General Secretary of FIFA, state that the World Cup is a FIFA competition and that FIFA is to appoint one of the national associations affiliated to FIFA as the organizer (executive agent) of the World Cup.
		FIFA's revenue derives from the dues paid by its members and from a percentage of revenue from international matches and world championships.
		The local organizing committee is a body set up jointly by FIFA and the FIGC for the purpose of carrying on all activities relating directly or indirectly to the technical and logistical organization of the World Cup.
	europa.eu.int /smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31992D0521&model=guichett (6492 words)

	uefa.com - FIFA World Cup - News & Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Klinsmann's finest hour arrived when he won the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Van Basten fired his country to glory at EURO '88 while Stoitchkov was the Golden Boot winner at the 1994 World Cup.
		Klinsmann, a star striker at FC Internazionale, AS Monaco FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC among others, has the advantage of not having to qualify for the World Cup and is in no doubt where his priorities lie ahead of Wednesday's friendly against Austria.
		A former European and World Player of the Year, he was part of a generation reared on the 'total football' philosophy established by the Netherlands in the 1970s.
	www.uefa.com /competitions/WorldCup/news/Kind=8192/newsId=216748.html (600 words)

	Football world cup web.com - The Unofficial World cup site - What's your World Cup?
		A relaxed atmosphere, the spirit of friendship and mounting anticipation ahead of the summer finals were the hallmarks at the opening ports of call of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Welcome Tour.
		The Baden Wurttemberg Order of Merit will be conferred on Guido Buchwald, a 1990 FIFA World Cup winner who later played and now coaches in Japan, at the Welcome Japan event.
		The first-ever FIFA World Cup global tour of welcome undertaken by an OC President continues until mid-February.
	www.worldcupweb.com /WCfootball/content/show_article.asp?id=323&cat=2 (686 words)

	ContiSoccerWorld - Portrait of Brazil’s Confederations Cup coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1970, he was the trainer responsible for the fitness of Pele and the rest of the FIFA World Cup™ winning squad’s under head coach Mario Zagallo.
		The latter was even given his marching orders after the 2002 FIFA World Cup™ win because, amongst other reasons, he was continually at odds with Brazil’s football legend, Pelé.
		In between his positions in Brazil, he guided Kuwait to the FIFA World Cup™ finals in Spain in 1982, the United Arab Emirates to the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ in Italy and Saudi Arabia to the 1998 FIFA World Cup™ finals in France.
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	Gianluca Vialli -
		He became one of the club's most successful managers, winning the Worthington Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 and the FA Cup in 2000.
		Vialli was part of Italy's third place finish at the 1990 World Cup and earned 59 caps, scoring 16 goals for his country.
		Wins FA Cup winners' medal after coming on as 89th minute substitute in the 2-0 final victory over Middlesbrough.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Gianluca_Vialli (807 words)

	FIFA pays homage to Pope John Paul II - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PARIS (AFP) - World football's governing body FIFA paid homage to Pope John Paul II, a goalkeeper in his youth, whose body was laid in state in St Peter's Basilica yesterday.
		FIFA said in a statement he left the image of a good-humoured man who defended peace and universal love.
		"The FIFA family joins the world in mourning for the passing of Pope John Paul II," the statement said.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20050404T200000-0500_78081_OBS_FIFA_PAYS_HOMAGE_TO_POPE_JOHN_PAUL_II.asp (248 words)

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