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GROUP G / Colombia vs. Tunisia

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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SITE: Montpellier

TIME: 8:30 a.m. TV: ESPN, Channel 34 RADIO: KWKW (1330, Spanish)

* ABOUT COLOMBIA: Lost its opener to Romania, 1-0. It will be without Faustino Asprilla, whose pleas to be reinstated after being sent home because of comments he made to a Colombian journalist are being ignored by Coach Hernan Dario Gomez.

* ABOUT TUNISIA: Lost its opener to England, 2-0. Must be more aggressive and take more offensive chances than in its opener. Look for its defenders to join the attack whenever possible.

* OUTLOOK: Tunisia will let attacking midfielders Zoubeir Beya and Skander Souayah generate scoring chances in a game it desperately needs to win. But Colombia, a good ball control team, might not allow them many opportunities. Tunisia’s coach, Henry Kasperczak, formerly coached in Montpellier, so he will feel right at home.

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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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