The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

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World Cup 1994: An American Game, Revisited

World Cup 1994: An American Game, Revisited25 May1 h 01 min

If you're old enough — what do you remember about the 1994 World Cup? And if you're not, try to picture it. Soccer in the United States before MLS existed. Matches inside the Pontiac Silverdome, a domed football stadium in Michigan — humid, bizarre, and somehow full. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Record attendances that still haven't been broken. A tournament that, by most outside, European or Latin American accounts, had no business working as well as it did. The standard story is that 1994 pla...