#1994-world-cup

#1994-world-cup

The United States was chosen, the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and television studio. Nobody could seriously doubt that. The USA had played in only two World Cups since the second world war and hadn't had a national professional league for a decade.