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...UCLA coach Sigi Schmid, whose team is all-Californian save one player from Washington state, has also heard many things about the Harvard booters...
...best information that UCLA men's soccer Coach Sigi Schmid has about the Harvard men's soccer team comes from Guatemala...
Outside the office, "Sigi," as his friends called him, had a reputation as a swinger who liked pretty girls and fast cars, and usually picked up the tab on his visits to local nightspots. He showered his girl friends, who fondly called him der Rosenkavalier, with clothing, jewelry and champagne. No one thought it strange that Sigi was able to indulge such playboy tastes on his $790-a-month soldier's pay. After all, he was known to be a lottery addict, and had once boasted of winning...
Phony Soldiers. Little by little, though, the fun seemed to pall. Sigi complained of sleeping badly and rushed back from his vacations in Austria and Italy. One day, after a routine check uncovered a $125 error in one of his books, a tense Schmidt tooled off to the nearest police station. There he told an incredible story: he had invented thousands of phony troops, put them on the battalion's books, and then drawn their very real pay-some $500,000. Since he had logged in his first "recruits," many of whose names Schmidt picked out of the phone...
...sure we've tightened up the system," snapped a Bundeswehr official. Still, few could help admiring the sergeant's ingenuity. Said a Defense Ministry aide: "It was a masterful trick." As for getting the money back, the government can forget it. When he was arrested, Sigi was flat broke...