WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : SHE'S A TRANSLATOR, NOT A DOCTOR

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : SHE’S A TRANSLATOR, NOT A DOCTOR

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

July 16, 1994 12 AM PT

The mystery involving Bulgarian translators continues. At the Rose Bowl on Friday, Coach Dimitar Penev was asked to update the media on an injury to midfielder Daniel Borimirov.

Through translator Svetla Gosteva-Ivanova of the Bulgarian Football Union, it was understood that Borimirov was injured at Thursday’s practice and would sit out today’s third-place game against Sweden.

The rest of her answer had the scientific community jumping.

The nature of the injury?

“The finger on his right leg,” Gosteva-Ivanova relayed in English.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : SHE’S A TRANSLATOR, NOT A DOCTOR

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