WORLD CUP USA '94: ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : HE DOESN'T SERVE WHEN HE SITS, WAITS

WORLD CUP USA ‘94: ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : HE DOESN’T SERVE WHEN HE SITS, WAITS

By BILL DWYRE

July 6, 1994 12 AM PT

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Hugo Sanchez, aging player on Mexico’s team who didn’t play against Bulgaria in his team’s round-of-16 elimination by penalty shots and wasn’t happy about it, had the following to say about Coach Miguel Mejia Baron’s decision to keep him on the bench: “What would have happened (in Argentina) if Maradona did not play in three World Cup games?”

Shall we call him Humble Hugo?

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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.

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