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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : THE BIG GAME

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Guido deWindt, the Belgian team’s press officer, estimated that Saturday’s game against the Netherlands will draw a television audience of more than 300 million in Europe. It will be shown in prime time for much of the Continent, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Belgium.

“The whole of Europe will be watching,” he said. “That’s going to be the big game.”

More than 20,000 Belgian fans are expected to be in Orlando for the game.

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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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