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...this activity is in preparation for World Cup USA94, which begins in Chicago on Friday. Forget the Super Bowl, World Series and Olympic Games. The World Cup is the most eagerly anticipated event on the sporting calendar for most people on earth. Held every four years, the tournament decides the world championship of football -- the kind of football actually played with the feet. Like America's Dream Team in Olympic basketball, the teams are made up of a country's best players. Some may play professionally in a league on a foreign continent, but they play for their national teams...
...federation that runs the World Cup chose the U.S. for the 1994 tournament with the hope of attracting more American fans to soccer. It's a difficult task. A recent Harris poll found that only 25% of the 1,252 U.S. adults questioned knew what sport the World Cup involved, and only 20% were aware that the tournament would be held in the U.S. this summer. As for professional soccer in America, does anyone out there remember the Cosmos? Americans are not completely indifferent to the game, however. Fourteen million children and young people play the sport, and their parents...
Americans who do follow the World Cup will be rewarded, for international soccer right now is better than ever. In recent years gifted players from small countries have increasingly gone abroad to compete in the prosperous, rigorous football leagues of Europe. If fans in their home countries are deprived of the joy of watching top talent play during the regular season, the stars are battle hardened when they return to their national teams. The result has been a closer parity among national teams that undoubtedly will lead to upsets. The most exciting squads competing in the finals fall into four...
Israeli researchers say soccer players should abstain from sex for six to eight days before a game for optimal performance, according to findings released on the eve of the World Cup . . . Defending champ Germany has already taken such advice to heart, banning wives and girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television...
...after that, it was pretty much smooth sailing, as the team blanked Dartmouth and Amherst, 9-0, took first place at the Howe Cup on February 18, and then captured the regular-season national championship at Yale with a 7-2 win over the Bulldogs...