The Seoul Games / Day 3 : Roundup : U.S. Ties Argentina in Soccer

On a day of Olympic soccer shockers, even the United States got into the act.

The United States, playing in its first major tournament since being named to play host to the 1994 World Cup, tied traditional powerhouse Argentina 1-1, in a first-round match at Taegu.

The Soviet Union, meanwhile, could manage no more than a scoreless tie with South Korea, and Australia stunned defending bronze medalist Yugoslavia, 1-0. Only defending silver medalist Brazil played to form, beating Nigeria, 4-0, in Taejon.

Michael Windischmann’s goal with 11 minutes to play put the United States ahead. But about five minutes later, Carlos Alfaro Moreno was tripped in the penalty area by John Harkes and beat U.S. goalie David Vanole with the resulting penalty kick.

The United States nearly scored on two other opportunities, but both times the shots hit the goalpost.

Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, but its World Cup players were ineligible for the Olympics. In Olympic competition, teams from South America and Europe, where soccer is strongest, are not allowed to field any player who has represented his country in any World Cup game.

Sixteen teams, divided into groups of four, are playing a round-robin series in the opening stage of the tournament, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the quarterfinals.

Asian Games champion South Korea, spurred by the promise of $14,000 each player receives if the team wins the gold medal, drew 0-0 with the Soviets at Pusan. The Soviets were considered a likely medal winner, and the tie is a setback for them. Both teams play in the same group with the United States and Argentina.

Australia’s 1-0 victory was the result of a goal from Frank Farina, the Australian League’s leading scorer, in the 50th minute.

Brazil, meanwhile, survived a sometimes rough but scoreless first half, before its attack got going against Nigeria.

Ademir Santos scored the Brazilians’ first goal in the 60th minute. Faria added goals in the 75th and 84th minutes, and substitute Jose Oliveira added the final goal in the 86th minute.

Men’s Diving: Defending champion Greg Louganis, seeking his fourth Olympic medal, led after the first five dives of the men’s springboard preliminaries Monday.

His teammate, Mark Bradshaw, was sixth.

The Chinese divers, two of Louganis’ toughest challengers for the gold medal, also put in strong performances during the morning session. Tan Liangde, runner-up to Louganis in 1984, was second, and Li Deliang was fourth.

The field of 35 was to be cut to 12 for Tuesday’s final. None of the preliminary scores will be carried over, although divers will perform in reverse order of their standings.

After the first five dives, Louganis had 242.97 points. He was followed by Tan with 232.80, Albin Killat of West Germany with 231.90 and Li with 225.78.

Greco Roman Wrestling: American Isaac Anderson, Soviet Kamandar Madjidov and Bulgarian Jivko Vanguelov won three matches and shared the lead after three rounds in the 62-kilo class Greco Roman wrestling preliminaries.

Anderson, of Albany, N.Y., edged Mieczyslaw Tracz of Poland, 3-2, in the first round and, displaying fine throw techniques, defeated Gu Guohong of China in the second round. In the third round, Anderson, 30, beat Brahim Loksairi of Morocco, who was disqualified after three cautions.

Madjidov beat Aha Javan-Saleh of Iran, An Dae-hyun of South Korea and then decisioned Mieczyslaw Tracz of Poland, 3-0.

Vanguelov, the 1987 world champion, beat Jeno Bodi of Hungary, 1-0, then defeated Jukka Loikas of Finland, 7-0. In the third round, Vanguelov pinned Shigeki Nishiguchi of Japan in 1:06.

Besides the 62-kilogram matches, preliminaries for 48- and 90-kilogram divisions were held. The three divisions’ preliminaries continue through today, and the finals will be held on Tuesday.

In the 48-kilogram preliminaries, Vincenzo Maenza of Italy, the gold medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics, Bratan Tzenov of Bulgaria, Andrzej Glab of Poland and Kwon Duk-yong of South Korea each collected two victories against no defeats through the second round.

In the 90-kilogram slot, Fran Pitschmann of Austria, Christe Gullden of Sweden, Vladimir Popov of the Soviet Union, Harri Koskela of Finland and Ola Koschnitzke of East Germany each collected two victories after the second round.