{"id":222,"date":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/28\/post-215-world-cup-usa-1994\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","slug":"post-215-world-cup-usa-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/28\/post-215-world-cup-usa-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-215: World Cup USA 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"
I remember World Cup 1994. <\/p>\n

Now that it’s 2014 and the World Cup is here again, I realize that 1994 is no short time ago.<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. World Cup Team 1994<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I remember this team. The wild-looking #22 in the back is Alexei Lalas. He is now a commentator. The little Black guy, #13, was Cobi Jones, who amazed us by his sprinting ability in those days. #18 is Brad Friedel, who is still playing today in the English Premier League, at age 43. I saw him on the BBC as a commentator when watching a game with my friend J.H. We were confused by his accent. Half of his sentences sounded British, half American. #1 was Tony Meola, the starting goalie, whose name I thought was very cool. Looking back on this team, there is only one player who is obviously Mestizo in ancestral origin, #7. Only two players are Black, and both are very light-skinned. This strikes me about how I perceive that the USA has changed. If this team were fielded in 2014, my feeling is that the coach and so on would be accused of racism!<\/p>\n

This team performed the best, by far, of any U.S. national team ever up to that point.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nThere was no Internet in 1994. This probably mean<\/span><\/span>t life was more authentic. I played soccer in those days, too. I was in school but June and July, World Cup time, are vacation. I was so excited that I hardly knew what to do with myself.

<\/span><\/span>The World Cup was not only going on, you see, but in my own backyard. I think some of the games were played at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. and there I was living quite nearby. I went to a game. I am almost sure I did. I have no idea who played, other than two minor teams. Exasperatingly, I am not 100% sure if this is a true memory. I remember seeing a bunch of attention-seekers dressed in bright red-white-and-blue costumes and making a lot of noise at the stadium. Is it possible I saw it on TV? No, it can’t be. A memory of TV cannot be so vivid. Is it possible the memory was of the 1996 Olympic soccer and I went to that instead?

I remember being alone in a car with my friend and then-classmate Pedro, listening on the radio to the USA vs. Brazil game. As it was radio, our clarity of understanding was less than optimal.<\/span><\/span> I remember our huge celebration when the USA scored a goal. Imagine the deflating feeling when we realized that it was actually Brazil that scored! The USA lost.
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