IN THE 1994 WORLD CUP A FEW THINGS ARE STILL REMEMBERED EVEN TODAY.

The 1994 world cup was held in the U.S.A for the vey first time , a country where football is not as popular as Baseball, Basketball , N.F.L. 1) So in a very crucial match played between the U.S.A and Columbia , a game both wanted to win to progress to the next round, and it was played on 22/6/1994, at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena In the match the score stood at 1-1, but then sadly the Colombian Andrea Escobar, scored a own goal, he only wanted to kick the ball away from his own goal, so he came sliding in and by mistake tapped the ball into his own net. Own goals like this are sadly scored in all levels and world cups too. But this own goal did cost Columbia more then three points. Now the Colombian Drug Cartland had put a millions and millions of pounds on a bet that Colombia would win the match. The loss of money was to much for the Drug lords. On his return to Medellin Andrea Escobar hid from public eye, but he was shot when he came out of bar, he was shot dead, by two men on a motorbike. The man called Humberto Monos, was sentenced for 47, forty seven years, but he was released after eleven years in prison.. But after his death Colombia revolted and hated the Drug Lords, and wanted only peace in Medellin. 2) In the 1994 world cup played in the U.S.A. Diego Maradona , the captain of the Argentinean team, was thrown out of the World cup in the U.S. in disgrace because he was guilty of taking a banned substance, called Ephedrine. 3) Roberto Baggio the Italian captain in the final of the of the 1994 was played between Italy and Brazil, ad the game finally went to be decided by the penalty shoot out. And Roberto Baggio missed the final kick against the Brazilians, the ball went far and high into the stands. But four years later in 1998 Roberto Baggio took the first penalty , against Belgium, and scored it. This showed his quality and class. This happened 25, twenty five year ago, the younger generation of football fans re unaware of these stories.