WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : MAYBE A REAL DAWN
<i> Independent in London</i>
“It was a riveting first week to encourage optimism that this might be a tournament to banish the sackcloth and ashes of Italia ’90 and begin, whisper it, to recall the sun-kissed delight that memory insists was Mexico ’70.
“These finals went further--16 matches--without a goal-less draw than any since 1958. . . . One hesitates to be so effusive so early, having witnessed so many false dawns. Perhaps we are over-eager to escape the negativity that has characterized major football for so long. But we may be, just may be, privileged to be in on the beginning of the global game rediscovering itself.”
