WORLD CUP USA ’94 / ROUND OF 16 : SPOTLIGHT : BORN ON FOURTH OF JULY?

And this on U.S.-Brazil:

“Will American interest be sustained to the end? If there is to be a turning point in this new experience for the United States, it could come on Monday, July 4, Independence Day. Then the rookies of the host nation travel to Palo Alto, to attempt to pull off what might be called ‘the greatest shock in sporting history’ against Brazil. . . .

“Their Serbian manager, Bora Milutinovic, is working on psychology. He believes football is a game of the mind and hopes that the innocence, the arrogance of the American soul, will enable his players to ignore the gulf in class.”