SAN DIEGO — A roster loaded with generational talent, a lengthy unbeaten streak, a successful qualification run highlighted by a convincing win against Argentina, a World Cup in the United States, a sexy pick to win in it all, belief, ... .
LOS ANGELES — More men have been elected president of the United States than have played for the U.S. in a World Cup game on home soil. It is among the rarest of achievements in a country that has achieved ....
A recently discovered dusty stack of 1994World Cup tickets is serving as an unexpected reminder of how the price to attend soccer’s biggest spectacle has dramatically exploded over the past three decades.
“I hope,” said Alexi Lalas, a defender on the 1994 team, “they have some sense of what is coming.” For Lalas, and for soccer in the U.S., the 1994 World Cup is the line that divides then and now, the before and the after.
World Cup ratings wars can be brutal, expensive, and occasionally claim high-profile casualties ... I knew something was wrong when they had a post-World Cup party to which I was not invited, but it was still a shock.”Advertisement.