Amurka sun sake kaiwa zagaye na 16 a Kofin Duniya da suke masaukin sa a gida, suna maimaita tafiyar da suka yi a gasar 1994 wanda kuma suka shirya — nasara da ta haifar da murna da kuma tunani mai zurfi a cikin da'irar kwallon kafa ta Amurka.

Amurka sun tabbatar da matsayinsu a matakin kawar-da-kawar da nasara ta 2-0 kan Bosnia da Herzegovina a Santa Clara, inda aka fara kwatanta su da 'yan wasan 1994, waɗanda suka buga a irin wannan yanayin mai zafi a gida shekaru 32 da suka wuce.

Labarin bugun fanareti biyu

Podcast na BBC World Service More than the Score yana bincike kan kamanceceniya tsakanin waɗannan muhimman lokutan biyu na Kofin Duniya, yana gabatar da labarin a matsayin fanareti biyu da aka rasa da kuma duk abin da ya faru a tsakaninsu.

Mai gabatarwa Lee James yana tattaunawa da Kerith Gabriel, Editan Wasanni na Philadelphia Inquirer, don nazarin abin da wannan tafiyar ta nufata wa wasanni a Amurka da kuma yadda take kwatanta da juyin tarihi na FIFA World Cup 1994.

Shirin kuma yana nuna wasu daga cikin muryoyin da suka fi jan hankali daga bazara ta 1994. Eric Wynalda, wanda ya zira kwallo ta farko ta Amurka a wannan gasar, yana tunawa da yadda yake ji yana jagorantar harin a gaban al'umma da ta fara ganowa kwallon kafa. Sunday Oliseh, wanda ya wakilci Nigeria a fitowarsu ta farko a Kofin Duniya a wannan shekara, yana ba da ra'ayin ɗaya daga cikin ƙungiyoyin ƙasa mafi tarihi na Afirka yayin da take ɗaukar matakanta na farko a babbar matakan duniya.

Ray Houghton, wanda ya zira kwallo wa Jamhuriyar Ireland a 1994, yana ƙara wata murya ga labarin, yana tunawa da gasar da ta ja hankalin ma sauran ƙasashe na kwallon kafa mafi mamakin duniya.

Mutumin da ya sanya ya zama gaskiya

Watakila gudummawar da ta fi bayyana ta fito daga Alan Rothenberg, tsohon shugaban US Soccer da kwamitin shirya na 1994. Rothenberg yana bayyana yadda shi da ƙungiyarsa suka canza jama'a masu shakka da al'ummar kwallon kafa ta duniya mai ƙyama — suna isar da Kofin Duniya da mafi yawan masu kallo da mafi nasarar kuɗi a tarihi har zuwa wannan lokaci.

Labarinsa yana magana kai tsaye game da girman abin da aka cimma: ƙasa ba tare da babbar ƙungiyar ƙwararru ta farko a lokacin ta shirya gasar da ta karya tarihi ta taimaka wa haihuwar Major League Soccer.

Ƙungiyoyi 48, ƙasashe uku

FIFA World Cup 2026 kanta babi ce ta tarihi, inda ƙungiyoyi 48 ke gogayya a cikin Mexico, Amurka, da Canada — mafi girman gasar da aka taɓa shirya. More than the Score yana alkawarin tafiya fiye da sakamakon wasa, yana ba da haske kan sabbin ƙungiyoyi, taurari masu fitowa, da al'adun magoya baya waɗanda ke sake tsara gasar ta hanyoyin da ƙididdiga kawai ba za ta iya nuna ba.

Sabon shirye-shiryen More than the Score suna samuwa a BBC World Service da ko'ina da ake samun podcasts na BBC.