Talk:1994 FIFA World Cup

Congratulations!

This page is impressively put together. I was looking for some details on the final game between Brazil and Italy--and here it was all put together in perfect form. Thank you, and congratulations! ---Rednblu | Talk 03:46, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Move

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This edition was a success by FIFA authorities in a country where the Football is a sport with a little fans, but in inmigrant people who work and live in United States especially Latin the sport has support. For this circunstance and to move to the American white people and for wake interest and passion to soccer ( also know it to football ) the event choose like slogan "Making Football History"

Comment : Badly phrased. Too complex even to rewrite. Tintin

Requested move

Football World Cup 1994 → 1994 FIFA World Cup – following the consensus of naming the World Cup articles as FIFA World Cup in Wikipedia, and consistency of naming the major international football tournaments.

Discuss here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Competitions#Requested move of Football World Cup articles. --Pkchan 10:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Points per Match - 3 or 2 ??

Hello,

I couldn't overlook the fact that this article claims that the 1994 world cup was the first world cup to incorporate the 3 point system per win. Actually, the fact is that the 1994 world cup still used the 2 point system per victory, the article still holds this critical mistake and should be changed as soon as possible. In the 1994 World Cup itwas feared that a team with three draws could equal the number of points by a team with one victory and one draw. The three point rule was created in 1994 immediately after the world cup and was therefore not applied at this tournament. This section of the article needs to change. Thanks, Kiske 21:31, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

The calculated points are different on this page to Yahoo's (official?) site:

FIFA 1994 results according to 'official' Yahoo site

Any idea which is right? Artbristol 14:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

group E

i think it is noteworthy to add in trivia section that every team in group E, had identical Pld, W, D L, GF, GA and GD, as far as i know for the first time in history

Recent edits by SndrAndrss

I really think we should be linking to the match reports at FIFA web sites. I can't see the point in changing the links. Also, I don't think it matters which how the teams are ordered in the footballboxes. I'd support changing it to the ordering used in the match reports (or any consistent ordering) but we should pick a particular order and stop changing it. I've reverted some of SndrAndrss'd edits, which are less than helpful, and I've left comments on their talk page, but I have had no response. Please can we have some sort of consensus before making these sorts of edits? --StuartBrady (Talk) 13:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Absolute agreement here. There's no way you can claim a 3rd party site to be a better source to cite compared to the "official" site, and you should also follow the format of the linked-to site (e.g. for the order the teams are displayed) for the benefit of the reader. -- DeLarge 13:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It is completely and utterly irrelevant which order the teams are in, as for all the matches with the exception of those of the United States, neither team can be usefully construed as being at home. WP:LAME for this one. Stifle (talk) 08:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Foxboro Stadium

Foxboro Stadium is not in Boston, it is in Foxboro, which is something like 20 miles away from Boston (maybe more). However, SndrAndrss has 'corrected' all of the Foxboro Stadium references in the matches to indicate that it is in Boston. I am now going to change these back.--Robotforaday 13:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Same for Rose Bowl (in Pasadena), Stanford Stadium (in Palo Alto), Pontiac Silverdome (in Pontiac), and Giants Stadium (in East Rutherford). The "Venues" section already explains the relation between the cities the stadiums are actually located, and the names used by FIFA, which are the metro areas. So please stop editing them! Chanheigeorge 18:03, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Famous Moments

I added a famous moments section including Baggio's missed penalty kick and Salenko's five goal performance. I think it can be improved though. MegasAllexandros 21:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Words like "best known for Baggio's penalty miss", "tragic ending" and "hero" lack neutrality. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of people who remember Baggio's great performance rather than his penalty miss. Besides, Baggio still played in 1998. In any case, I think the Baggio part should probably be moved to the Roberto Baggio article. - ChaChaFut 02:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Baggio's great performances are included in the article. Baggio's penalty miss fits a tragic hero ending, but feel free to remove it. Heraklis 07:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

New Jersey is not a City

The "Venues" image which lists the location of the stadiums refers to the town of East Rutherford, New Jersey simply as "New Jersey." If each other local is represented by the city it is in, why not East Rutherford? Aufs klo 03:03, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Biggest Memory

I think it should be include the famous moment between Ireland and Mexico when the 4th offical would not let John Aldrige on to the pitch.This was all picked up on camera and so was the strong language that followed from Aldo.-the-muffin-man- 22:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

He was substituting Tommy Coyne, who had already left the pitch. No wonder they wouldn't let him - according to this report, FIFA think Tommy Coyne was playing for Mexico...and a Dennis "Irvin" seemed to be playing too. No. 7 on this list gives some more info.  sʟυмɢυм • т • c  23:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Many of the match results and group standings in this article are wrong

Someone should correct them