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  World Cup Managers
At the World cup West Germany surpassed all their expectations and reached the final, however they lost a thriller 3-2 to Maradona’s Argentina.
At Italia 90, West Germany won the World Cup, going undefeated throughout the entire tournament and his side were magnificent especially in their opening matches against Yugoslavia and UAE.
As France were hosting the 1998 world cup finals, they didn’t have to play in the qualifying rounds of the world cup.
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  Football World Cup 1994 (match reports) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1994 Football World Cup was held from June 18 through July 17 at various venues throughout the United States.
The World Cup early on saw very few upsets, while the Italians were the only favorites who were in serious trouble after the first round.
He was the fifth kicker of the penalty shootout in the finals, and missed, to see the Brazilians capture their fourth World Cup.
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 Football World Cup 1994 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
This World Cup was the first in which winners of group matches received three points for a win instead of two.
Greece, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia played in the World Cup for the first time: there were also a record three teams representing Africa.
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 Football World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Six of the seven past world champions have won while playing in their homeland, and nations actively lobby to be selected as World Cup hosts.
The 2014 World Cup, which FIFA has earmarked for South America, is expected to be held in Brazil as CONMEBOL, the South American Football Confederation, has already backed it as their choice.
At the end of each World Cup final tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.
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 Football World Cup 1950   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The 1950 Football World Cup is the only one which never had a single final match.
It was also the first year that the cup itself would be referred to as the Jules Rimet Cup, to mark the 25th anniversary of Rimet's presidency of FIFA.
World War II meant that the Football World Cup had not been held since 1938; it also meant that most of Europe lay in ruins after the ravaging effects of the war.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/football_world_cup_1950   (553 words)

  
 Los Angeles Business Journal: Tourism industry to be real winner at World Cup - Special Report: Tourism
World Cup promoters have dubbed the 52-game tourney the "world's greatest single sporting event," and 3.6 million tickets are expected to be sold for the entire tournament-- the most tickets ever available to the World Cup.
The World Cup estimate is considered fairly conservative by the USC economists, however, because it does not include the spending by non-spectator visitors, meaning the people who will travel to L.A. with World Cup spectators but will not actually attend any games.
World Cup officials, in meetings with various public officials, are discussing ways in which local cities can prepare for the coming games and ways in which L.A. businesses can market themselves to tourists.
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 World Cup History Page - All about the World Cup history
There was already a surprise in the qualifiers: the elimination of two-time world champions from the first 4 tournaments, Uruguay and Italy.
Since 1958 hosting the World Cup was to be given alternately to American and European countries.
For the first time in World Cup history a game was ended before the 90' whistle.
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 Encyclopedia: 1998 World Cup Tournament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The 1998 Football World Cup Tournament was held from June 10 through July 12 at various venues throughout France.
The 1998 Football World Cup was held in France.
The World Cup Golden Boot is the award given to the top goalscorer in the FIFA World Cup.
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 Soccer Players Encyclopedia
At the 1994 World Cup he won the Bronze with his country and was selected in the dream team of the tournament.
The tall and agile striker was an important part of France's World Cup title in 1998 and their European Championship trophy in 2000.
At the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, Socrates was an instrumental in Brazil's squad.
www.expertfootball.com /players/encyclopedia.php   (3501 words)

  
 Sports News of Friday, 13 December 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Eight years after USA 1994 World cup soccer tournament, over 200 Ghanaians who were supposed to have travelled to the big world soccer fiesta are still counting their cost.
Even though “Chronicle” cannot establish that the hotel was built up from the registration fees for the world cup trip, victims did not rule out that the hotel was built from their sweat.
The paper gathered that in 1994, while plans were far advanced for the commencement of the big soccer tournament in far away USA, Bestway Travel and Tour Limited purchased space in the newspaper to advertise that it was organising a round trip to the USA for the big soccer event.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/soccer/artikel.php?ID=30512   (561 words)

  
 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
In November 1991, the Detroit World Cup '94 Bid Committee requested help from turfgrass scientists at Michigan State University to install and maintain a natural turf field inside the Pontiac Silverdome for the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament.
Throughout the spring of 1994 the turf was mown daily and irrigated frequently using two large water reels (another type of travelling sprinkler).
MSU turfgrass scientists, World Cup, and Pontiac Silverdome officials were interviewed by news media from Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, and other nations, plus over one dozen national newspapers and television stations.
www.css.msu.edu /WorldCup.cfm   (2074 words)

  
 EF Soccer History - World Cup 1994 USA
The 1994 World Cup was held outside of Europe or South America for the very first time in its history.
Hosting the World Cup was seen as a good marketing move for the future birth of Major League Soccer.
Surveys taken just weeks before the tournament showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans had no clue that the USA was hosting the cup and most did not even plan to watch it.
www.expertfootball.com /history/world_cup_1994.php   (1175 words)

  
 1994 World Cup
Bulgaria, who had never won a FIFA World Cup match in 16 previous attempts, were the biggest upsets beating Germany en route to the semi-finals.
The Brazilians were the best team in the tournament and were deserved winners, even if the nature of their final victory left a hollow taste for many.
An African nation had still never organized a finals tournament since the FIFA World Cup was founded in 1930, but with just two staiums they lacked the facilities to stage such a major event.
www.soccerhall.org /history/WorldCup_1994.htm   (758 words)

  
 Football World Cup 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He was the fifth kicker of the penalty shoot out in the finals, and missed, to see the Brazilians capture their 4th World Cup.
Greece and Saudi Arabia played in the World Cup for the first time: there were also a record three teams representing Africa.
The USA-Switzerland match in the Pontiac Silverdome was the first to be played indoors in World Cup history: grass had to be shipped in at great expense from California.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/football_world_cup_1994   (755 words)

  
 U.S. WORLD CUP ROSTER
Was bypassed by Bora Milutinovic for the 1994 tournament.
One of the last players cut from 1994 World Cup roster, burned his gear after he was told.
Started all four games at 1994 World Cup but has lost speed and is not expected to start this time.
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 CNNSI.com - 2002 World Cup - World Cup Tournament Summaries - Tuesday April 09, 2002 06:51 PM
Posted: Tuesday April 09, 2002 6:51 PM The concept of a World Cup soccer championship was conceived by two Frenchmen, Jules Rimet, the president of FIFA, and Henri Delaunay, its general secretary.
The inaugural World Cup tournament was held in Uruguay and featured 13 nations, including seven from South America.
Kempes had six goals in the competition to become the first player to be a world champion and the top scorer in the same tournament.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/2002/world_cup/news/2002/04/08/cup_history   (2244 words)

  
 Away From the Stars, Soccer Street Fest Attracts Young Talent | Features | Deutsche Welle | 01.07.2006
Parallel to the World Cup, Germany will be hosting another soccer festival when 22 teams from all over the world sweat it out at a street soccer tournament in Berlin starting Sunday.
The tournament, part of the official FIFA cultural program at the ongoing World Cup, was founded by German national Jürgen Griesbeck, a former visiting lecturer at the University of Antioquia in Medelin, Columbia.
Unlike the 2006 Fifa World Cup where Brazil is considered the favorites, at the Festival 06, there are no favorites as teams do not even know each other's strengths and weaknesses.
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 South Africa 2010 World Cup
The 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan was the most extensively covered and viewed event in television history.
In choosing South Africa to bring the World Cup to Africa for the first time, Fifa was not only looking at what the country already offers - world-class transport, telecommunications, tourism and sporting infrastructure, and a people renowned for their hospitality and passion for the beautiful game.
South Africa 2010 World Cup would make a huge contribution, not only to South Africa's socio-economic growth, but to the development of the continent as a whole.
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 rediff.com sports: Optimistic Russia target quarter-finals
Despite a poor record at major championships, optimistic Russian football chiefs are targeting a place in the quarter-finals for the national side at the World Cup.
At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Russia failed to make it past the group stage after losing to Brazil and Sweden in their first two matches.
Russia subsequently failed to qualify for the 1998 World Cup in France after losing a playoff to Italy.
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 http://www.KenAston.org - World Cup 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The rest of the tournament was great though and there were plenty of goals, excitement, drama and surprises.
Bulgaria, who had never won a World Cup match in 16 previous attempts, were the biggest upsets beating Germany en route to the semi-finals.
Another surprise in this World Cup was Russia's Oleg Salenko; he was not even in the starting line-up for Russia's early games in 1994 and he started this tournament on the bench.
www.kenaston.org /World_Cup/WorldCup1994.htm   (1397 words)

  
 England in World Cup 2002 - Final Tournament
The Committee decided France, as reigning World Cup champion, and South Korea and Japan, as host nations, would be seeded as three of the top eight teams and assigned them to head Groups A, D and H, respectively.
Argentina, 2nd in both FIFA's world rankings and the Organising Committee's World Cup ranking and the bookmakers' favourite to win the tournament, dominated the single qualifying group for South American teams.
In the supercharged pressure of the World Cup finals, that may prove an insurmountable difficulty for a team that is young and inexperienced in key positions.
www.englandfootballonline.com /CmpWC/CmpWC2002Finals.html   (1189 words)

  
 Planet World Cup - A to Z of the World Cup
After losing his second World Cup final in 1986, he said he wanted to come back in 1990 and win the cup at his third attempt.
From the 1986 World Cup onwards, the last round of matches in the 1st round have been played simultaneously to avoid scandals like that.
Leonidas, one of the stars of that tournament, had scored 6 goals in two rounds, but was left out of the team for the semifinal against defending champions Italy because the manager wanted to save him for the final!
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 1994 World Cup Tournament Definition / 1994 World Cup Tournament Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For match results and statistics, see Football World Cup 1994The 1994 Football World Cup was held in the USA.
After playing in the 1930 and 1950 World Cups, they qualified just once -- in 1994.
There, playing champions Germany in the tournament's opening game in Chicago, Bolivia lost 1-0 as Marco Etcheverry, considered the nation's best player of the 1990s, got sent off just three minutes after coming on as a sub.
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 World Cup
Detailed information is provided on the events in each and every world cup including the overviews, greatest players, fixtures, results, top scorers, classic matches, greatest managers and so much more.
The fifa world cup was a great tournament this year in Germany and all nations participated well as world cup soccer reached new heights.
We look back on every world cup score at world cup germany 2006 and we will also look at what is going on in prepeartion for world cup 2010.
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 United States Olympic Committee - FIELD HOCKEY: USA Field Hockey to Induct Seven into Hall of Fame
She played in additional World Cups in 1986 and 1990 and competed in three Pan American Games tournaments in 1987 (silver medal), 1991 (bronze medal) and 1995 (silver medal).
Hall of Fame moment: With the USA and India tied at the end of regulation in their 1993 Intercontinental Cup classification match, Hershey calmly netted the penalty stroke that ensured the USA a 4-2 win in strokes, and secured the USA a 5th place finish and a spot in the 1994 World Cup.
Hall of Fame moment: Appearing in her first major international tournament at the 1990 World Cup, Stuper and the USA defense suffered a crushing 9-0 loss to Korea.
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 Brazil's 1994 World Cup squad take on lowly Exeter (Reuters)
Five members of the 1991 world cup team are still playing for the US which is pretty impressive -- there aren't a lot of examples in international sports of people remaining competitive for over 13 years.
Organizers of the 2006 FIFA World Cup soccer games in Germany plan to issue tickets with smart tags in what is expected to be the largest-ever deployment of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology at a sporting event.
Reuters - Big city mayors from around the world signed a series of pacts on Sunday to improve the conditions of urban centers, capping a five-day U.N. World Environment conference in San Francisco, the city where the United Nations was founded in 1945.
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 World Cup Soccer Betting Odds - Bet World Cup 2006 Soccer - world Cup Germany Odds
The 2006 Football World Cup (officially titled 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany?) finals are scheduled to take place in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006.
The XVIII FIFA World Cup will be held from 9th June to 9th July 2006 across 12 venues in Germany, with 32 nations competing in the month-long festival of sporting excellence.
There are many different World Cup Soccer Odds and different World Cup betting options so if you are interested in betting the World Cup it is a good idea to Bookmark This Page and check back often.
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 Planet World Cup
Before the Asian Cup finals began, many pundits would have told you that the four best teams in the competition would be Australia, Iran, Japan and South Korea.
In August (yes, August!), qualification for the 2010 World Cup finals will be underway and, to its credit, FIFA’s Executive Committee resolved the allocation of slots to those finals quickly.
When they were one-nil behind to Japan in their opening match it did look as if perhaps the stage could be too big for them, but in true never-say-die style they blindsided Japan with a three goal blitz in the last eight minutes to resurrect their....
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 Romario's tearful farewell
Romario's last international appearance was almost exactly 18 years to the day from the first, when he came in as a substitute in Brazil's 1-0 loss to Northern Ireland in a 1987 friendly at Dublin.
The hero of the 1994 World Cup championship team, Romario is Brazil's second-best all-time scorer, only behind Pele.
The former FC Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven striker was Brazil's high scorer, and named the tournament's most valuable player during the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-04/29/content_438506.htm   (675 words)

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