WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : COME, WATCH, LEAVE

By BILL DWYRE

June 25, 1994 12 AM PT

Orlando seems to be taking World Cup security a bit more seriously than some of the other venues. One plane filled with Mexican fans was boarded on arrival Thursday night by a dozen or more Orlando police and several fans suspected of trying to illegally enter the country were detained.

Then, at Friday’s game between Ireland and Mexico, Orlando police officers ringed the Citrus Bowl field, one standing about every 10 yards and all facing the crowd with stern looks.

Serious business, this European football.

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : COME, WATCH, LEAVE

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