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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : HOME AWAY FROM HOME

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Irish goalkeeper Pat Bonner and his teammates couldn’t stop talking about the reception they got in the New York-New Jersey area.

“We’d like to go back (for playoff games),” he said. “There were 50,000 Irish there (for the victory over Italy). If we can stay there, it would be great for us.”

Giants Stadium, he said, was fantastic.

“The design was magnificent and it supported that kind of atmosphere. It was mostly Italians and Irish. It wasn’t American people. I must say it was well-organized, So far, everything here has been a dream.”

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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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