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00:01:34 1 Qualification
00:04:51 1.1 List of qualified teams
00:05:07 2 Summary
00:11:36 3 Mascot
00:12:01 4 Venues
00:15:44 5 Referees
00:15:53 6 Squads
00:16:23 7 Seeding and draw
00:17:29 8 Opening ceremony
00:18:23 9 Results
00:18:32 9.1 Group stage
00:19:22 9.1.1 Group A
00:19:26 9.1.2 Group B
00:20:37 9.1.3 Group C
00:22:05 9.1.4 Group D
00:23:17 9.1.5 Group E
00:25:00 9.1.6 Group F
00:27:18 9.1.7 Ranking of third-placed teams
00:28:29 9.2 Knockout stage
00:28:38 9.2.1 Round of 16
00:28:47 9.2.2 Quarter-finals
00:28:56 9.2.3 Semi-finals
00:29:04 9.2.4 Third place play-off
00:29:13 9.2.5 Final
00:29:21 10 Statistics
00:29:29 10.1 Goalscorers
00:29:38 10.2 Awards
00:30:09 10.3 All-star team
00:30:18 10.4 Final standings
00:30:36 10.5 Disciplinary statistics
00:30:57 11 Firsts
00:33:41 11.1 Sponsorship
00:38:38 12 Lasts
00:38:59 13 References
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, held in nine cities across the United States, from 17 June to 17 July 1994. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on 4 July 1988. Despite the host nation's lack of soccer tradition, the tournament was the most financially successful in World Cup history; aided by the high-capacity stadiums in the United States, it broke the World Cup average attendance record with more than 69,000 spectators per game, a mark that still stands. The total attendance of nearly 3.6 million for the final tournament remains the highest in World Cup history, despite the expansion of the competition from 24 to 32 teams (and from 52 to 64 games), which was first introduced at the 1998 World Cup and is the current format.Brazil won the tournament after beating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California near Los Angeles, after the game had ended 0–0 after extra time. It was the first World Cup final to be decided on penalties. The victory made Brazil the first nation to win four World Cup titles. There were four new entrants in the tournament: Greece, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, as well as two countries that were formed at the end of the Cold War: Russia, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and for the first time since 1938, a newly reunified Germany took part in the tournament, following that country's reunification in October 1990, which took place a few months after West Germany's victory in the 1990 World Cup.
