Not only does Romario wear the No. 10 jersey of the legendary Pele, but he has called Pele “mentally retarded” and “a museum piece.” So far this year he has lambasted Brazilian Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira for naming Rai to the World Cup squad ahead of Valdo (Rai is merely team c...
It all adds up to produce an increasingly confident squad that finished third in the 1992 European Championship and is assured of finishing no worse than fourth in the world. World Cup ’90 SWEDEN was in Group C and lost all three games by the same score, 2-1, eliminating it from the ...
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and Switzerland, and is frequently referred to as “The First World Cup.” The Football Association of England, however, turned down the invitation to send a professional squad and refused to be connected to the event.
There are four tournament rounds on the World Cup schedule, but first, each group plays in a round-robin. The two squads with the most points move on to the round of 16. From there it is like any other sports tourney where it goes from 16 to eight (quarterfinals), then to four ...
1994, the U.S. received an automatic berth and lost to Brazil in the round of 16. They qualified for the next five World Cups, a feat shared with only seven other nations. The U.S. reached the quarterfinals at the 2002 World Cup, and eliminated top-ranked Spain in the 2009 ...
The surprising thing here is that this match took place in Serie B after the once mighty Milan team, European Cup winners in 1963 and 1969, had been relegated for the second time in three seasons in 1981/82. They won 2-0 and the only “stranieri” – foreigner – in the squad (...
Image credit: ussoccer.com The Trinidad and Tobago football team of the late 1980s, nicknamed the Strike Squad, was but a single point away from qualification to the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Needing only a draw and playing at home, Trinidad and Tobagolos
The Rose Bowl already has a proud football history having hosted the 1994 World Cup final and the 1999 Women’s World Cup final, as well as the 1984 Olympic gold medal match. Currently smaller in size but expandable past 100,000 seats is theAT&T Stadium in Dallas, a retractabl...
The captain was proud of the way his squad rallied to end the tour on a high and hoped it would be a spark for more consistent performances away from home Bangladesh's eight missing keys to a stable batting order Bangladesh's senior batsmen scored most of the runs on the recent tour of...