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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : EYES OF TEXAS . . .

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Francisco Marcos, commissioner of the U.S. Interregional Soccer League and liaison for the Brazilian team here, has a 3-year-old with six names.

To honor his family and his wife, Marcos named his son Julian Marcos Clem Ward Isidoro Bicho. The first two “are his stage name,” said Marcos, a native Brazilian who lives in Dallas. “His passport has them all.

“He’s Texan, Portuguese and American. He will be the first guy eligible to play for three countries, because by the time he grows up, Texas will be a republic.”

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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.

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