DON'T EXPECT A TITLE IN 2010

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 23, 1998 12 AM PT

Jamaican players kept their 5-0 loss to Argentina Sunday in perspective.

“Argentina is the strongest team I’ve ever faced,” Jamaican substitute Robert Earle said. “That explains the severe score. For us, this World Cup is still a rich experience. If we didn’t learn anything after two matches, we’d have to be stubborn. But we realized that qualifying is only one step. To succeed in the finals is another, and much harder.”

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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.

DON’T EXPECT A TITLE IN 2010

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