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WORLD CUP USA ‘94: SEMIFINALS : Spotlight : BUT THEY KNOW WHERE PASADENA IS

About those pre-World Cup polls that said only 20-30% of Americans knew that they would be playing host to the tournament, Edvins Beitiks of the San Francisco Examiner writes: “Headlines that sniffed ‘America Yawns as World Cup Approaches’ ignored the fact most Americans don’t know their Secretary of State or the location of Mexico City.”

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