WORLD CUP USA '94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : WHO WAS THAT GUY?

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : WHO WAS THAT GUY?

By BILL DWYRE

July 11, 1994 12 AM PT

It was an emotional, and obviously confusing, time for Coach Javier Clemente of Spain, as he met the press a few minutes after his team lost to Italy, 2-1, Saturday.

He was asked about a late injury to one of his players, a broken nose caused by an Italian elbow.

Who was hurt?

“It was Cassetas,” he said.

It was Luis Enrique. There is no “Cassetas” on Spain’s team.

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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.

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : WHO WAS THAT GUY?

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