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WORLD CUP USA ’94 ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : NO RIDE NEEDED NOW

By HELENE ELLIOTT

The biggest problem for Belgium was helping its fans get to Chicago for its game Saturday against Germany.

About 10,000 Belgian fans were in South Florida, expecting to stay for a Belgium-Ireland match Tuesday. However, Belgium’s 1-0 loss to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday sent the Belgians to Chicago instead. Scheduled flights out of Orlando simply couldn’t accommodate the hordes of followers.

“If 500 fans from Belgium are in Chicago, that would be a success,” said Roger van den Stock, an official of the Belgian Football Assn. before the game.

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After a 3-2 loss to Germany, the Belgians can go home.

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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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