Talk:1994 FIFA World Cup

message: The article states that
"The finals were the first time FIFA decided to experiment with the style of jerseys worn by officials, foregoing the traditional black. They could choose between burgundy, yellow or silver shirts depending on what was necessary to avoid a clash of colors with the two competing teams. This custom has since been followed, but with black shirts added as an option later."
Although there are video footage from the 1978 World Cup in which referees could use red shirts to avoid color clashes with dark teams' jersey (e.g. Scotland): see 
I think that the entry should be reviewed. It is true indeed that black was not an option for referees' shirts in 1994, but it makes it look like there was no alternative before ("This custom has since been followed, but with black shirts added as an option later") which is clearly false given the video above.
--37.116.67.52 (talk) 00:03, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Referees uniforms

message: I changed the knockout bracket to list East Rutherford and not New Jersey, seeing as the town/city location is given for all of the other matches.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Official Fake Sheep (talk • contribs) 16:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: East Rutherford

message: 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)
thread_title:  Congratulations! 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Points per Match - 3 or 2 ?? 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Recent edits by [[User:SndrAndrss|SndrAndrss]] 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: I believe the actual towns where the stadia are located should be mentioned, but the name of the official FIFA venue should be used as default. Ricklongo (talk) 19:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Foxboro Stadium

message: :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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title: Famous Moments

message: :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)
thread_title: New Jersey is not a City

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Biggest Memory 

message: Someone should correct them —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.36.9.152 (talk) 16:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you be more specific? At a glance they seem to tally.  Sʟυмgυм • т • c  21:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many of the match results and group standings in this article are wrong 

message: I've got several tickets from the 1994 World Cup, some of them never used (the bottom part wasn't ripped off). I was wondering if I scanned them and uploaded them, would it be a copyright violation?  MicroX 03:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ticket image copyright 

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message: Please note the fourth Swiss goal was scored by Georges Bregy, not Adrian Knup as is wrongly states in the official match report.  Knup didn't touch the ball. Mjefm (talk) 07:31, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What basis do you have for this assertion? Although FIFA have often gotten things wrong in the past, I've seen no sources that give Bregy as the scorer of the fourth goal, and even then I wouldn't want to second guess FIFA. – PeeJay 09:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland v Romania correction 

message: It is not true that no British teams competed in that World Cup. Ireland is a British island so Republic of Ireland is a British team.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fn1m (talk • contribs) 11:19, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ireland is not part of the UK, which is what people refer to when they say "British team". chandler 14:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly. Ireland may lie on one of the so-called "British Isles", but it is not a part of the United Kingdom. The phrase "British team" refers exclusively to the teams of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. – PeeJay 20:27, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

text: There is no such island as "Britain". The term you are searching for is "Great Britain". And anyway, nobody gives two hoots whether Irish people get offended at being considered part of the British Isles; it's a fact of geography and there's nothing you can do about it. – PeeJay 11:29, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

text: I said "Nobody gives two hoots whether Irish people get offended", not that nobody cares about the situation. The common term for the group of islands upon which the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland lie is "the British Isles", and until a more common term comes into use, I don't see any reason why we should stop using "the British Isles". – PeeJay 18:35, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualification 

message: Per long-standing consensus and policy, we don't publish "final standings" as the world cup only has 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. To infer otherwise is not permitted, unless FIFA changes its rules. --John (talk) 03:53, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Why was the knockout stage as it was?
In Italia´90 the winners and runner up of a group wouldn´t meet until final where as in USA ´94 Brazil meet sweden (Winners and runner up group B) in semifinal. The same would have been for winners and runner up of Group D (Nigeria and Bulgaria), Group F (Netherlands and Saudi Arabia).
Winners and runner up of Group A (Romania and Switzerland) Group C (Germany and Spain)and E (Mexico and Ireland) where not able to meet again until the final of the world cup if they would have got there.
Italia ´90 The winners and runners up where not able to meet until final. The four best third-placed teams did would not meet any team from thier own group until semifinal - and in three out of four cases the would have meet the winners of thier group.
Mexico ´86 was the same, though it was two thirdplaced teams that where able to meet the groups runner-up in semi-final, and two too meet the groupwinner.  
In Korea/japan 2002 Brazil again faced a team from thier own group in semifinal - Turkey. As far ar I´ve understood it this was due too keep teams in one Country until final. It was the same in Euro 2008 in Austria-Switerland (Spain face thier runner up Russia in the semifinals) though not for the Euro2000 in Belgien/Niederlande  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.30.75.7 (talk) 21:30, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pure speculation, but it may have been to minimize travel, as the US is a heck of a lot bigger in area than most of the countries that had previously hosted (even Mexico is only about a third of the US's area.) oknazevad (talk) 23:46, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think there is some truth in that but I don´t think that´s all. There is a "west coast knockout" and a "east coast knock out" but as I wrote some groups the winner and runner-up where divided to each side. My memory tells me that winning a groups was equal to travel less - but then the runner-ups could have gone over to the other coast (i.e Argentina as a third placed team).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.234.168.203 (talk) 01:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knockout stage questions  

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thread_title:  Dead link 

message: Times of goalscorers are wrong. I'm not sure of the correct times myself, but I know that Brazil went 2-0 up, not The Netherlands.
Also Aron Winter scored the equaliser against Brazil, not Marco Van Basten, who I'm not sure was even in the Dutch squad for the tournament.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.201.163 (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The page doesn't say anything about Marco van Basten. It says Romario and Bebeto scored first for Brazil, Bergkamp and Winter brought the Netherlands level and Branco scored the winner nine minutes from the end. – PeeJay 13:45, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Netherlands v Brazil. 

message: It should be added in introduction of article, that this edition of World Cup is first to use three points for win
82.139.5.13 (talk) 14:23, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mdann52 (talk) 16:23, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: But there's mentioned in article that is the first edition of WC to use 3 points for win. BTW You must see at group stage section for example a team having 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss had 4 points (3 points for win + 1 point for draw) for example all teams in Group E. Even if i have no sources to show it, what i've said is true. --82.139.5.13 (talk) 11:53, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not done: I don't find this info important enough to add to the introduction. Yes it is mentioned in the body of the article (without a source), and I think that's enough. Please also remember that Wikipedia is about Verifiability, not truth. Mentoz86 (talk) 19:04, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Truth is also important thing --82.139.5.13 (talk) 21:19, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 5 August 2012 

message: In the article 1994_FIFA_World_Cup on the section of the Group E. Italy vs Ireland is twice once at the begining and once right before the end. the game that ended 1-1 is actually italy vs mexico
148.237.67.15 (talk) 23:49, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 28 May 2013 

message: I recently say a ESPN Documentary called "June 17, 1994" which was about many notable sporting events that happened that day which were overshadowed by O. J. Simpson's run from the police, including the opening day of the 1994 World Cup. Should it be mentioned in this article, especially since the Spain-South Korea game was going on during the chase. GoPurple'nGold24 02:24, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  O. J. Simpson 

message: Apparently, the guy who subsequently fixed a great deal of European soccer, Dan Tan, lost $1.5 million on this WC when he was starting out and fled Singapore. If we're adding trivia… — LlywelynII 08:38, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Argentina 1990's 5 goals is the record low. Roposs (talk) 08:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Other trivia

message: I remember that when they played in the Pontiac Silverdome the temperature was unusually hot (in the high 90s). I never found out why, whether it was FIFA regulations or if it was equipment failure. Did FIFA forbid the use of air conditioning, and if so, why? I would think this point should be included in the article, since it would affect game play.209.179.57.76 (talk) 01:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The heat at the Pontiac games 

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message: Those rounds haven't been appearing on this page?--Hmdwgf (talk) 23:08, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Round of 16/Quarterfinal/Semi-final appearance issues 

message: Can we have a map that features what country voted for what in the hosting selection? 2604:2D80:A610:9300:90D6:BA85:6705:1546 (talk) 22:39, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? – PeeJay 13:47, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Host Voting Map