News

sports

On HALO

2 weeks ago

1994 USA Reunion: Former Players Relive The ’94 World Cup, Look Ahead to 2026

Thirty-two years ago, many fans in the global soccer community saw the United States planning to host its first FIFA World Cup in 1994 and asked one collective question: Why? At the time, the United States men's national team was a largely anonymous squad of unknown players wearing now-nostalgic denim uniforms. In mainstream America, soccer did not have the same popularity as other sports like gridiron football or baseball. But then, the tournament kicked off. To look back at the summer of 1994, members of that squad — Alexi Lalas, Cobi Jones, John Harkes, and Marcelo Balboa — reunited to take...