Meet the World Cup Golden Boot winner who went home after the group stage

The World Cup always produces unlikely heroes, and few scoring stories are stranger than Oleg Salenko’s record-breaking run ...
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1994 World Cup: Soccer reaches the US on a global scale and Brazil win via first-ever final penalty shootout

Finally, after all the ifs and buts, all the will-he-won’t-he agonising over Diego Maradona, the Joao Havelange FIFA ...

World Cup Moments: The tournament's most famous missed penalty

There is no more memorable penalty miss in World Cup history than the decisive kick in the 1994 final.That took place between ...

The story behind Diana Ross’ iconic 1994 World Cup penalty: ‘It was just the most absurd thing”

Forget the soccer, the music star was responsible for one of the enduring images of the first World Cup on American soil ...

It’s bigger. Is it better? A look at the differences between the 1994 and 2026 World Cups

A look at differences between the 1994 World Cup, the first in the United States, and the 2026 tournament, to be played in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
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World Cup wonder goals: King’s call spurs Saudi stunner

We count down to the FIFA World Cup 2026™ by showing a wonder goal each day. Today’s shows Saeed Al-Owairan’s solo effort for Saudi Arabia at 1994. 75 days to go...75 days to go... We’re counting down ...

Who are the World Cup's record holders?

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at the record holders in World Cup history ahead of the 2026 tournament ...