WORLD CUP ’94 DAILY REPORT

Romanian soccer player Gheorghe Hagi, quoted in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune: “We want to play in a pleasing style. We don’t want this thing where you don’t score any goals, especially in the United States. Americans like a show.”

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In the category of it’s all who you know: The reserve goalkeeper on the 1950 U.S. soccer team that stunned England, 1-0, Gino Gard, lives in the Chicago area and has tried for the last month to acquire two tickets to any of the games in Chicago. He was unable to get any through World Cup ’94 or the U.S. Soccer Federation, so a neighbor who works for a bank gave him a pair for the Germany-Spain game on June 21.

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The last time Switzerland, the U.S.’s opponent in its opening game June 18 at Pontiac, Mich., last won a World Cup game in was 1954.