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Commercialised, curious, sometimes raucous: USA 94 was a joy to attend
As a skint 23-year-old I did two weeks in the US. It remains a personal favourite tournament 32 years later You never forget your first World Cup, and the tournament’s return to American shores this year will stir vivid memories for anyone who attended USA 94. It was a curious and distinctive tournament, one that heralded the World Cup’s more expansive, commercialised future, while also seeming a world away from the jamboree that returns 32 years later, twice as big and at least twice as lucrat…
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