FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns

At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
Published: Oct 13, 2022
1994 Escobar

Image by : Mark Leech / Getty Images

25/35
  • FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
  • 1930_France
  • 1930 Argentina
  • Italy team
  • USA team
  • Brazil final spectators
  • 1954 goals record
  • 1954 Stud boot
  • Pele
  • Chile and Italy match
  • 1966 Engalnd Germany match
  • 1966 Jules Rimet Trophy guard
  • 1970 Miracleous save
  • Adidas introduced the Telstar ball
  • 1974 the Uturn
  • 1978 Clive Thomas
  • 1978 heart embrace
  • 1982 Brutality unpunished
  • 1982 Prince Fahad
  • 1982 Paolo Rossi
  • 1986 Argentina
  • 1986 blunder
  • 1990 Hip dance
  • 1994 Brazil team
  • 1994 Escobar
  • 2002 World Cup
  • 2006 Portugal and Netherlands
  • 2006 Zidane
  • 2010 high pitch buzz
  • 2014 biting point
  • 2014 brazil supporters
  • 2018  goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary
  • 2018 Video Assistant Referee
  • 2018 Messi and Ronaldo
  • 2018 France

1994
The other dead Escobar
Nicknamed The Gentleman, the Colombian captain and defender Andres Escobar was known for his clean style of play and calmness on the pitch. In the second group match against the United States during the 1994 Cup, Escobar stretched to block a cross and inadvertently deflected the ball into his own net, costing Colombia the match and an early exit from the tournament. Escobar returned home to Medellin. One night, he went out with friends, hit up a few bars and was alone at a car park when a group of men taunted him about the own goal, then shot him six times in the back, and left him for dead.