Eight World Cups
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; Two Billion Hearts (documentary)
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After Landon Donovan scored in the ninety-first minute against Algeria in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he, Edson Buddle (left), and Benny Feilhaber (right) race to the “dog pile” in the corner. The dramatic goal sent the United States into the knockout stage.
Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian with claims to American citizenship, scored on a well-timed deflection for a 1–0 victory by the United States over England in the 1950 World Cup, the biggest upset in U.S. soccer history. He was lofted by fans in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, after the match.
Great players brought the aura of the World Cup to the New York Cosmos during the short, flamboyant life of the North American Soccer League in the 1970s and ’80s. Here the Brazilian superstar Pelé celebrated a goal in Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
Giorgio Chinaglia (9) showed his burning drive to score during his run with the Cosmos. After growing up in Wales, he played for Italy—rough on his coaches, worse on rival defenders.
Carlos Alberto (5) was running on empty during his final games with the Cosmos, but the Brazilian still demonstrated the finesse of a World Cup defender.
Paolo Rossi was suspended in a gambling scandal but returned in time to lead Italy to the 1982 World Cup championship in Spain. In this 3–2 victory over Brazil in Barcelona, he dodges Falcão (15) and Júnior.
Dino Zoff, age forty, was the oldest player in the 1982 World Cup. The keeper for Juventus lofted the trophy for Italy after the final victory over West Germany.
Before the game between their squads at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Argentina’s Diego Maradona accepted a handshake from England’s Peter Shilton, but in the match he outleaped Shilton and punched the ball with his left fist for the goal he attributed to the “Hand of God.”
After blasting a goal in the thirty-first minute of the United States’ qualifying match against Trinidad in 1989, Paul Caligiuri (second from left) joins the celebration with John Harkes, Bruce Murray (arms in air), Tab Ramos, and Peter Vermes. The 1–0 victory put the United States in its first World Cup in forty years.
At the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the Cameroon coach kept Roger Milla, thirty-eight years old and already retired once, on the bench until the sun went down. Then Milla emerged and helped Cameroon become the first African team to reach the World Cup quarterfinals.
Vilified by the owner of Juventus, his club in Italy, Roberto Baggio rebounded from a slow start to score twice against Bulgaria in the 1994 World Cup semifinal in New Jersey. But his hamstring would slow him down in the final.
Fans celebrated on West 46th Street, the Brazilian center in midtown Manhattan, shortly after Brazil’s shoot-out victory at the 1994 World Cup final in Pasadena. This was the fourth title for Brazil but, hard to believe, the first since 1970.
Criticized as not being “French” enough, Les Bleus—with roots in corners of the French-speaking world—nonetheless enchanted their nation’s fans at the 1998 World Cup in France. Zinedine Zidane (10) scored two gorgeous headers in the final victory over Brazil.
Brandi Chastain coolly switched to her left foot to score the deciding penalty kick in the U.S. team’s victory over China at the 1999 Women’s World Cup final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Known to her teammates as Hollywood, she shed her jersey to celebrate, just like the men.
Francesco Totti of Italy (10) pleaded for a penalty kick after hitting the ground in a match against South Ko
rea in 2002. Instead, the referee gave him a yellow card for diving, which led to his expulsion, and Italy would lose, 2–1, to the home-nation Reds.
In his last World Cup match before reaching maximum age, the great referee Pierluigi Collina wielded two early yellow cards, one to Miroslav Klose of Germany (center), in the first nine minutes of the 2002 final and then presided over an orderly 2–0 victory for Brazil.
Pino DiBartolo operated L’Angolo, a café in New York’s Greenwich Village, attracting Italians and other fans. Its closing in 2008 left a giant hole in many a social life. Siamo molto tristi, ancora.
At the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin, France’s Zinedine Zidane turned and head-butted Marco Materazzi after the Italian made vicious personal comments during the match. With Zidane banished with a red card, France lost the final in a penalty-kick shoot-out.
Nelson Mandela celebrated in Zurich on May 15, 2004, as South Africa was awarded the 2010 World Cup. Archbishop Desmond Tutu bows before (left to right) an unidentified official, former South African president F. W. de Klerk, Mandela, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and South African president Thabo Mbeki.
Plastic horns, called vuvuzelas, allowed South Africans to demonstrate their joy at hosting the World Cup—and for fans to rattle eardrums in stadiums and in front of televisions all over the world.
Chuck Blazer of the United States and Jack Warner of Trinidad were allies in the CONCACAF regional federation, which oversees the sport in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Later they would turn against each other, and both would be banished from soccer, accused of financial impropriety.
Demonstrations across Brazil in 2013 claimed a link between domestic inefficiency and corruption and preparations for the 2014 World Cup. This was the first time the World Cup had ever been criticized so openly by people of the host nation.
Playing in a surprising snowfall outside Denver in March 2013, the United States’ Clint Dempsey (8) scored the only goal and celebrated with Michael Bradley (4) during a vital qualifying victory over Costa Rica.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
When I decided to write about my eight World Cups, my agent, Esther Newberg of ICM Partners, came through, as always. She connected me with Paul Golob of Henry Holt and Company, who has been a wise and proactive editor. I also thank Alex Ward, the editorial director of book development at the New York Times, as well as Zoe Sandler of ICM and Emi Ikkanda, Jason Liebman, and Brooke Parsons of Holt.
It would be quite enough for Marianne Graham Vecsey to be the talented and pretty artist I met in college, but she also gave me her valuable reactions to this manuscript as it developed. Our oldest, Laura Vecsey, poet and journalist, also read the manuscript, and our two other journalist-children, Corinna V. Wilson and David Vecsey, are always there for counsel.