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...Saviola Sits It Out By ANDREW DOWNIE Rio de Janeiro Life can be hard for a teenager saddled with the nickname "El Conejo," the rabbit. But Javier Saviola has more serious problems at hand. The 19-year-old Argentine sensation is banging in goals aplenty for his Spanish club, Barcelona, in the world's best league, but he still can't find a place on the national side. Coach Marcelo Bielsa has an abundance of superb forwards to choose from (Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Ariel Ortega, Kily Gonzales, Gustavo Lopez ... we could go on) and Saviola looks likely...
Since that victory, the Legion's Dominican colonels and generals have been drilling 150 Nicaraguan youths on Figueres' Rio Conejo farm, just outside San José. For Figueres (who knows that Costa Rican counter-revolutionaries are also drilling on Tacho's side of the border), the situation has been a little embarrassing. The Caribbean Legion and its friends have been looking for a way to get on with their business without leaving Figueres on the spot...
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