WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : HEAT II

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : HEAT II

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 30, 1994 12 AM PT

Coach Dick Advocaat of the Netherlands, asked if his team might have an edge over Ireland in the teams’ July 4 meeting in Orlando because Holland has played there twice, saw no edge at all.

“I don’t think there’s an advantage because the heat is terrible for the players,” he said. “Our advantage, maybe, is that Ireland is from Europe as well, and they will have the same advantage or disadvantage as we do.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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