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The best doc if you are a football nostalgia lover

Straight out from the BBC archives

The best doc if you are a football nostalgia lover Straight out from the BBC archives

When you talk about nostalgic football you cannot avoid to mention USA 94. That World Cup is the mother of any nostalgic football feeling: Baggio's penalty, the baggy shirts and the iconic old fashion players like George Hagi.

USA '94 has a special place in modern football aesthetics: it was the source of inspiration for adidas of the uniforms for the last World Cup, it marked the end of the Maradona era but above all it involved for the first time the whole world in The Beautiful Game. The stage was the Clinton's - liberal and  optimistic - USA, which from New York to Pasadena turned into a giant television studio that involved - in their own way - the Americans in all their exuberance.

Rummaging on the web, we found on YouTube this extraordinary documentary on USA 94 directly from the BBC archives (the British state TV with a noteworthy documentary tradition). The film shows images never transmitted, new angles from which to watch the goals (and the wrong penalties) but above all capture the iconic vibe of one of the World Cup that has marked the aesthetic history of football.