The US hosted the World Cup in 1994 and calculated GDP gains of an additional 1.4%.
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The philosophy extended to Norwegian soccer under another disciple, Egil Olsen and Norway reached the World Cup Finals in 1994 and 1990.
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President Lula launched the logo at an event in Johannesburg which was attended by former Brazilian players Carlos Alberto, Cafu, Romario, and former boss Carlos Alberto Parreira, who guided Brazil to the World Cup crown in 1994 and coached South Africa in the 2010 tournament.
Recall that the last World Cup held in the United States in 1994 was hailed as one of the larger World Cup successes both logistically and financially.
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Meanwhile, the Brazilians are stuggling with some of the consequences of winning the 1994 World Cup.
The 1994 World Cup winning captain has kept faith with Michel Bastos (Lyon), Juan and Doni (both Roma), Kleberson (Flamengo) and Gilberto (Cruzeiro).
"When I rejoined South Africa in November, we should have had games organised but we did not, " lamented Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning coach.
Leonardo, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994, has backed Scolari to quickly get the players behind him at Stamford Bridge.
Keshi, who was at the 1994 World Cup finals with Nigeria, had to cope with a personal tragedy before the game against Liberia.
There is ego: Superstars (see Italy's Roberto Baggio in the 1994 World Cup final) convert only 60% of their kicks compared with 75% for non-superstars.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, I am the coach of the Brazilian team, I have the greatest responsibility, " added the 1994 World Cup-winning captain after the defeat.
Hodgson was also previously linked with the vacant England manager's job in 2000 having earlier guided Switzerland to the 1994 World Cup where they eventually lost to Spain in the last 16.
He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 World Cup in France.
His time with Switzerland drew worldwide notice as the team qualified for the 1994 World Cup from a group including Italy and Portugal, and rose to third in the FIFA world rankings.
Ahead of the 1994 World Cup Finals, which were held in the U.S., TV broadcasters proposed to FIFA, the sport's governing body, ways to make soccer more familiar to an American audience--and more accommodating to American advertisers.
Gulati was an executive with the U.S. organizers of the 1994 World Cup, Major League Soccer, and the parent company of MLS's New England Revolution, and he served on the boards of the 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups.
Romania's rugby fortunes declined sharply, and when a Welsh team travelled to Bucharest for a World Cup seeding decider in 1994 the visitors came away with a 16-9 win, a superb Ieuan Evans try the highlight of a dull game.
"Ten players per team will be controlled (tested) unannounced" during the competitions, Dvorak said, adding that Fifa had not recorded any football doping cases since that of former Argentine football star, Diego Maradona, during the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
On that night, when England needed to win by seven and have another opponent lose to even have a chance of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup, San Marino kicked off and worked the ball in the direction of its forward, Davide Gualtieri.
That journey started the day he was born on New Year's day 1992, the same day George Graham's "boring, boring" Arsenal were held to a turgid 1-1 draw by Wimbledon and in the same year that England finished bottom of their Euro 92 group and started their fateful 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign.
There is little data on the economic impact on Olympic cities, but Mr Baade studied what the 1994 soccer World Cup did to its nine American host cities.
Brazil had gone 24 years without winning the World Cup until he took them to triumph in 1994.
It was the first World Cup women's race held at Meribel since 1994, and only the sixth ever.
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Maradona's last World Cup, in the U.S. in 1994 , ended in disgrace as he failed a drugs test.
This is Morocco's fourth attempt to host the World Cup after failing in previous bids to stage the 1994, 1998 and 2006 finals.
It will be the second straight World Cup the Saudis have failed to qualify after making four in a row from 1994 to 2006 and leaves former Barcelona coach Rijkaard with an uncertain future.
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Forgotten in the glow of France's World Cup triumph in 1998 is the country's failure to qualify for the tournament in 1994.
Meanwhile, England's David Carter, who partnered Nick Faldo to World Cup glory five years ago, was successful in his first visit back to the school since he won it in 1994.
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