WORLD CUP SOCCER '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : WELL, MAYBE THE BEER

WORLD CUP SOCCER ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : WELL, MAYBE THE BEER

By BILL DWYRE

June 28, 1994 12 AM PT

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Don’t read this without Alka Seltzer at your side: One of the favorite foods of the Dutch fans is a herring sandwich with onions. One Dutch fan told reporters that this was good to eat in the heat, “especially with beer.”

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

WORLD CUP SOCCER ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : WELL, MAYBE THE BEER

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