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WORLD CUP USA ‘94: SEMIFINALS : Spotlight : FORESIGHT, TO A POINT

By HELENE ELLIOTT

He’s no bandwagon jumper, honest, but Seamus Malin, analyst for ABC and ESPN on World Cup telecasts, says he predicted Romania and Bulgaria would do well in the tournament. Perhaps not quite as well as Bulgaria reaching the semifinals, but he expected good performances.

“Now that the players are free to move to better circumstances--and make money--it affects their motivation. . . ,” he said. “I thought they’d get to the quarterfinals, but the semis, that’s a surprise. Bulgaria has caught lightning in a bottle.”

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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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