WORLD CUP USA '94: ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : IT'S OVER IN ORLANDO

By HELENE ELLIOTT

July 5, 1994 12 AM PT

July Fourth celebrations and postgame partying drew an estimated 200,000 people to downtown Orlando on Monday night. The high point--aside from the fireworks--was a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday,” sung to honor the United States on its Independence Day.

After the final game played in Orlando, members of the police department gave their caps away as souvenirs. The caps were highly popular, especially with Dutch fans.

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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.

WORLD CUP USA ‘94: ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : IT’S OVER IN ORLANDO

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