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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : MORE CLUCK FOR BUCK

By HELENE ELLIOTT

What do you say to a 10-foot tall chicken?

Most folks who encountered Alcedes Andrade outside the Rose Bowl on Wednesday didn’t say anything. They just posed for pictures with the 45-year-old Brazilian.

“This is my fifth World Cup. I always go as something different,” said Andrade, who went to Mexico in 1986 dressed as a parakeet. “They wouldn’t let me in (to the game) in San Francisco.”

Why would anyone wear a hot, heavy costume dotted with the green and yellow of the Brazilian team?

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To Andrade, it made perfect sense. “To gain attention of the entire world for Brazil,” he said.

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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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