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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : GET HIM A RACE CAR, SOUTHERN ACCENT

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Enzo Scifo, like his Belgian teammates, has grown to enjoy the Florida sun. They held a news conference poolside at their hotel, near Daytona Beach, wearing sunglasses and swim trunks. Scifo’s unique touch was a Daytona International Speedway cap.

Said defender Philippe Albert, suntan lotion in hand: “It’s perfect here. We want to stay here (for their first playoff game) because now we are used to the weather and maybe the team we play won’t be used to it. That would be an advantage for us.”

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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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