WORLD CUP SOCCER ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : SMOKE BUT NO FIRE

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

June 28, 1994 12 AM PT

Gueorgui Alexandrov, a diehard Greek fan, was arrested in Chicago for throwing a smoke bomb on the field during Sunday’s game between Greece and Bulgaria.

“It’s a Greek tradition to throw flares onto the field when the team scores,” one officer told the Chicago Sun-Times.

One problem.

Greece has yet to score in the World Cup, having been outscored in two matches, 8-0.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

WORLD CUP SOCCER ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : SMOKE BUT NO FIRE

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