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Although this year's may be the most interesting World Cup in recent memory, only one-quarter of the expected influx of a million foreign fans has arrived. Ticket sales were falling below expectations...
...scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany, 2-1. "When I heard about Algeria," said the great Pelé, now retired and covering the games for a Mexican television network, "I thought the World Cup had gone...
...Cameroon, also a 2,000-to-1 shot with authoritative London bookies, its cup runneth over. After holding off the Peruvians, Cameroon's "untamable lions" repeated the performance against another respected contender, Poland. Dashiki-clad, singing, whistle-blowing fans from Cameroon cheered their team's offensive abandon. As Polish defenders frantically raced in front of the goal, Forward Roger Milla, instead of passing to an unguarded teammate as a normal soccer player would, kicked away, letting the ball carom off Polish bodies. No goal was scored, but such bizarre tactics stunned the Poles, amused the international press corps...
...only serious smudge on the luster of this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have...
Down in Seville, Brazil's fans did the carioca. Hours before the country's three-time cup holders (1958, 1962 and 1970) met and beat a tough Soviet Union in the opening round, more than a thousand supporters danced to drums and maracas in the hot streets around the stadium. Draped in green-and-yellow national flags (or nothing much at all), they celebrated Brazil's best team since Pelé anchored the thunderous 1970 squad...