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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : AND THE BEACH IS BETTER

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Winning Group F means Belgium would play its round-of-16 match in Orlando, where the heat and humidity might be the worst of all the World Cup venues. But the players have begun to like the place, despite the weather.

Maybe they just like the results they’ve gotten here so far--1-0 victories over Morocco and Holland.

“This (victory on Saturday) was important for Belgium because we have six points, and because a win against Holland is a special game,” Belgian goalkeeper Michel Preud’homme said. “Also, we want to stay here in Orlando. We are very happy to stay here. We like Orlando and we like Daytona Beach.”

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The team’s headquarters is near Daytona Beach, at a golf and tennis resort about 50 miles from Orlando.

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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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