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WORLD CUP USA ‘94: SEMIFINALS : Spotlight : MAYBE THEY WERE

By BILL DWYRE
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Postmatch information comes very hard in the World Cup, mostly because everything is happening in about nine languages at once. The translations are stilted, or frequently merely stupid. But the award for the worst goes to the Bulgarian translator phrasing an answer by Coach Dimitar Penev about how soon his team will begin preparing for its semifinal against Italy.

“We will think about it tomorrow,” the translator said. “Right now, the players are very heavily loaded after this game.”

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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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