European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. February 2, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 25corhmentary world cup Bronco Bucky Fox United Stales is a soccer Headliner. This summer we have a team in the world cup finals for the first Lime in 40 years. That makes the . Team one novel commodity. In 1994 America is a huge stage for the worlds biggest sporting event. As Host the u a. Team gets a free pass to its second straight world cup. To. Money. The big show. All three Low during the world cup. American soccer could ride the wave to the big time. Or stay submerged kind of like pro surfing. One Way soccer could splash cold water on the race of the american Public is to win a couple of world cup games this summer. The . Team opens against Czechoslovakia june 10 in Florence. Then on to Rome june 14 to take on Italy. Then Back to Florence june 19 to play Austria. Two wins would push the . Into the second round. And make a Bunch of europeans faint. After the american team clinched a spot in the world cup finals last november i walked into my favorite restaurant Only to hear a German Guy at the bar say a the americans have nothing. They Ocie Lucky to qualify in a nothing group in South  of. Big Mouth. You think you have All the answers. Well. I have this. This phone Here and in a going to Call someone in the Arena. He a Paul Caligiuri. Midfielder 25 years old former Urcla All american from Diamond bar. Calif. The Guy who scored the goal for the United slates 1-0 Victory Over Trinida St Tobago in that november clincher. I really called Caligiuri two months later wednesday. To be exact. He was in Miami training for this weekend s Marlboro cup a tournament that besides the . And Costa Rica has two other world cup qualifiers. Colombia and Uruguay. The final is sunday. Five months to the world cup what prospects a other teams think Well get blown out a said Cali Giuri. A a we re going there optimistic. We believe in ourselves As a team and As individuals. The world awaits the Surprise team and i think we re that team. A everybody knows that you Don t put nothing Pasi the americans. Plus the pressure is not on us. Can you imagine if Italy were to lose to us or tie that would be a National disgrace. The Way it is in the world cup now we know More about their countries than they know about  so How far will the . Team go a a realistically a said Caligiuri a a we can get into the second round. Then Well set a new goal. But the ultimate dream in the Back of everybody s mind is to win the world  Caligiuri pronounced Oali jury knows about setting trends. Three years ago he became the first american to sign a contract with a division i German soccer club hamburger so. He played on a division ii club so Meppen last year and said he will return after the world cup to play somewhere in Europe. Caligiuri and his . Teammates will hit Europe Well before the world cup. The americans continue their exhibition Lour feb 13 in Bermuda then feb. 24 against the russians at Stanford March 10 against Fin land at Tampa March 20 against Hungary at Budapest a a a Quot against East Germany at East Berlin and Back across inc Ocean to play Iceland april 8 at Fenton. To. Caligiuri frets that these exhibitions done i strengthen the . Team s tiber. A they Don t provide the pressure that we need to get used to. Players in Europe arc playing for their club teams playing week in week out under pressure to get Points to slay in the league. I enjoyed that playing in Germany. Too bad some of my icam mails done to have that  Caligiuri a pressure goal kicked the . Into the biggest spectacle of 1990. Bigger than the super bowl. Now All he has to do is play like Well anything but Elway and his Bronco busts. A Joe Montana is a class act a said Caligiuri. A hopefully i can do the same for America Ihal he  th�3w�dsmp Miami a hurricanes no. 1please, no so sunday s super bowl again exposed How Boring football can be. That s what happens when the Denver Broncos continue to masquerade As turf. Maybe next year  come As scats. Anything to keep them off he Field. Whal do you do during a 55-10 Yawner i left As soon As John Jetway continued the snoopy half inc show with his dog pass to linebacker Michael Waller. You had to have insomnia a or monday off a to sit through two More hours of 49ers playing by themselves and an to drag spots. Actually. An s Best move was blacking out Elway a first two in completions. The rest of his Day was painful enough. Which leads to another question since Elway and the mile High Broncos insist on dominating the acc. Making the next five super bowls just As unbearable. What s the alternative to football answer the football recognized by the rest of the world. Namely soccer. Starling tonight with the . Team s Marlboro cup exhibition against Costa Rica in Miami. It s time for soccer to gel a foothold on american interest. The . Team is headed for the 1990 world cup in Italy. The United states will Host the 1994 world cup. If soccer can to stick its fool in the door of big time american sports right now that door will never open. Maybe there a no room through that doorway. Maybe the big four of american Spons a football baseball basketball and hockey a smother any Hope of soccer squeezing through. No Mailer How much the rest of the world adores soccer a with a billion watching the world cup As opposed to 100 million watching the super bore a maybe americans will never get a kick from the sport. Soccer is Loo defensive. Too Low scoring. I waited for something to happen in a Spanish league game on to recently Between Allerico de Madrid and Malaga and hardly anything did except that Madrid won 2-0. So much for grabbing american interest with Glitz. And yet. There a Hope. In these next five years themes yes yes. Dear editor in reference to the article a no. No. No. Irish Are no.  i m disappointed in the stars and Siri pcs for printing a commentary by John Eisenberger of the Baltimore Sun when the Guy obviously does no to research the facts. Consider that Miami has trouble keeping opponents on the schedule before you say. A Alt is time the polls stopped rewarding these cowardly teams that play As few Tough games As possible Check with Florida. And while Vout re at it. Ask Noire Dame coach Loul Holtz Why Miami won t be on his schedule in the future. The biggest game in College football in 1988 was Between Miami and notre Dame. The hurricanes went for two and missed losing to the Irish 31-30. It was a great game Miami a schedule that year was comparable to notre Dames last season. But when bowl time rolled around. Notre Dame skipped Over no. 2 Miami to play a tar weaker no. 3 West Virginia. In �?T88. The canes beat the Sec Champ Arkansas. Big 8 Champ Nebraska. Big ten Champ Michigan and Lorida state. They had a tougher schedule and a beat a belter team in their bowl. So Why Wasny to Miami no. 1 in the i9b8 season because they did no twin the big game in South Bend and toughness of schedule was t considered. Case closed. Miami 27. Notre Dame 10. This is the second year in a Row that Miami was ranked no. 2 and did not get a Chance to play no. 1. If the Orange bowl committee would have waited one More week for its Independent team Miami would have played no. I. I still Don t understand Why they did t play no. I the year before. Joseph Lyons shape Belgium let civilians play hoops dear editor i am compelled to respond to the stars and stripes article written by Tim Boivin entitled a civilian War brewing in army  is the Issue really civilians on a soldiers team or Sou sports tetters grapes because Robinson s and Brooks abilities to a a handle a basketball so Well frustrated and Defeated Baum older if or. Boivin will Check his figures again i believe he will find that Robinsons and Brooks combined scores of 46 Points were second to Goodman a and March s combined 48 Points. These arc soldiers yes. They helped them win but Lead no. What is the real Issue Are Gnu reporting to debate or trying to give the pro Civi Liari Quot court Quot the slip or belter did v corps Joe Mulligan or Vii corps Jimmy Mccollum ghostwriter the article for Boivin has anyone Ever stopped Long enough to ask the soldiers both on and Oil the team How they Felt about civilians being on the team or. Mulligan raises a poignant Issue regarding regulatory guidance and civilians playing on the intramural level. But How would or. Mulligan Feci write had coached a Community team to local tournament level and when his team went to the next higher level he had to watch someone else coach who had not earned i he right or. Mulligan stated Quot we feel it would be wrong for a civilian to displace a Soldier s spot on the  Mulligan and Mccollum stated that a they do not rain if civilians play on women teams that have trouble Fielding enough players to  if the Issue is really civilians being on teams then gentlemen a civilian female is a civilian As much As a civilian male. Have you taken a count recently of the number of females in the Community in comparison to the number of males a Salt for the Goose is Salt for the  come now gentlemen. Kaiserslautern coach Ivory Carter is a typical sportsman. Every game is a Gamble. He who risks nothing wins nothing. I say let the Best players play whether they be civilian or military. Set a quota and let the players go All the Way. Piny for the bin and sport of it. Lift morale rather than create need for More bureaucratic bungling that discombobulated. Janice Robinson Kaiserslautern West German leave football refs alone dear editor i am an avid football fan who hives in watch and participate in the sport. Lately though watching pm Ball. In be noticed some things i would like to comment on. First i know it s a business As Well As a game but let s keep it in perspective. People like me Are Lam. Not shareholders. I w aul m see a game not a Board meeting. Second lets gel off the refs Back. This Quot instant replay Quot Siufai junk. In makes the Rel s afraid to make a Call and. In some cases not to make a Call. People say. A Well refs make mistakes yeah right hut so do the players Anil Icv gel paid Mas More than the officials. In baseball when the ump says Quot you re out a you re nut. Period. Lei the Guys do their jobs and Lake their lumps. Third in seems there arc 20 new rules every year. Most of them arc chalked up As Quot to make the  come on. This is a full Contact sport in can Only he so Safe. And you practically gel shot if you touch a Zbor a kicker in be heard a Well full pads restrict their  fullbacks Wear a lot of equipment and they move pretty Good. Anyone on that Field should be fair game fora Legal Block or tackle. Lets gel away from the technicalities and just let Mem play. Randy is Holmun Schonbach West German when South Heads North in the Jan. 22 edition of stars and stripes an account of the 1990 senior bowl was printed it said that Tommy Hodson of Louisiana state led the North with two touchdown passes. Was that a typographical error or has Baton Rouge gradually shifted northward since in be been in Germany j a b. Fitzmorris  West Germany editors note Hodson did in fact play for the North team because the North needed another quarterback a a shortage caused perhaps by the number of postseason games and the limited Supply or available seniors of Alt Star Caliper