WORLD CUP SOCCER ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : BLOODY BUT UNBOWED
The Daily Mail in London
The American dream wilted and all but melted in record World Cup heat (in Pasadena) yesterday but defiantly refused to die.
Team USA lost its unbeaten record to the Great Hagi’s gifted Romanians, but still it staggered out of the caldron virtually certain to reach the last 16 of the finals of ’94. . . .
An overheated, capacity crowd of more than 93,000 kept faith with America’s new sporting heroes, urging them on to a last 10 minutes of unremitting but unrewarded pressure. By restricting this defeat to a single goal they surely took out insurance against elimination, even if third-finishing teams in other groups equaled their accumulation of four points.
