USA goalkeeper Brad Friedel makes another improbable save in the team's 1-1 first round play vs. South Korea (Photo courtesy of BBC Sports). World Cup 2002: An American Perspective Never could George Orwell's grim imagination foresee the happy absurdity that took place in 1994 (fine, my literary allusion is off by a decade), the year the United States hosted the FIFA World Cup. As that fateful ...