WORLD CUP USA ‘94: QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : WAR OF WORDS
Javier Clemente, Spain’s blunt, chain-smoking coach, has been feuding with Spanish media since the team arrived in Chicago on June 10.
On Friday he announced, “I don’t care what the media says. But if you know so much, you can make out the lineup. Why in the hell am I here?”
He later confronted a Spanish reporter who had compared Clemente to a dictator.
“You should never say that about somebody from Spain! Or somebody from Italy!” he said. “Italy had Mussolini, we had Franco, those are bad memories. Please, I cannot be a dictator.”
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