Joey Durso
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Odd Lots · How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever · 25 Jun 2026
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And that's kind of slightly airbrushed out of the story.
But like, yeah, these people, these characters, I think is what really makes World Cups above anything else.
That's right, that's right.
Which is a kind of slightly misunderstood slogan, I think, because it's seen as this arrogance or this like we invented it and we're this imperial people who are going to colonize you and win everything, which is actually this sort of extremely sort of self-deprecating to the point of like melancholic thing about how we never win anything.
And it's all really miserable, which is sort of a national character, I suppose.
Yeah.
And then you hit this sort of, well, I mean, it's sort of the beginning.
USA is the beginning of a process.
It's the beginning of this exponential curve where like people are throwing around the figure 12 billion for this World Cup, when three World Cups ago, it was half that.
It's many billions more than Qatar.
So the USA is not massive, but it's the beginning of the exponential curve in which the figure that what, you know, the 1990 World Cup in Italy, like lost money.
The USA in 94 is this beginning of, I think maybe people didn't realize at the time,
what a commercial success it could be and how much money was potentially on the table from World Cups themselves.
And that's when you lead it to FIFA itself becoming this much more ruthlessly commercial body.
are much more commercial, and you have these big sponsors much more prominent in the stadium.
So already much more commercial.
I mean, the interesting thing about 1998 is that France now feels like a stalwart football nation.
It kind of wasn't before 1998.
And then in France, because it's a story of economic history and industrialization, that France industrialized later than England.
And it was a country where most of its people lived in villages rather than towns and cities.
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