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...have come Peruvians in red ponchos, arriving in buses bannered ARRIBA PERU! (Up Peru!). Shaggy Scots, in kilts and tartan scarves, some of whom hitchhiked from New York City, wandered about ... waving bottles of local beer and giant flags bearing their national emblem, the cross of St. Andrew ... El Mundial, (The Global), as this eleventh international competition is nicknamed in Spanish, really is a world cup: the organizers claim that more than a billion of the earth's 4 billion people will watch some part of the month-long soccer tournament [on television...
...peque?a firma en Phoenix, Outdoor Systems, en la compa??a de vallas publicitarias m?s grande del pa?s. Infinity, (ahora integrada a Viacom) compr? la empresa en 1999 por $8.3 mil millones, y Moreno se llevo la ganancia. ?Hacia d?nde se dirige Moreno? ?Muchos hablan de llegar a la serie mundial?, dice. ?Yo s?lo quiero ganar...
There was supposed to be a U.S. soccer league developed as a result of the 'Copa Mundial.' Nobody knows, however, when or if the league will start. Even more sadly, most Americans don't care...
...wins it on July 11 at the long-awaited final game will have to swig the celebratory champagne straight from the bottle. No matter. Two years of elimination matches among 107 nations have left only 24 survivors, including sentimental favorite and host Spain, and defending champion Argentina, to settle Mundial '82: soccer's global championship. And for more fans around the world than watch almost any other organized activity, professional or amateur, it is soccer-footloose of spirit and often fancy of tactic-that is the true champagne of sport...
Adios, as well, almost all traditions at this Mundial '82 Cup. In what the French are calling "le mundial des surprises," a handful of low-ranked national teams are generating shock waves and upsets. This year, for the first time, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would...