European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 8, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 25 world cup �?T9 a another . Goal show Mem by Rusty Bryan staff writer a now that Florence Italy. They be reached the big time players on he us soccer team might be forgiven for thinking about continuing to play among the worlds Best. And that Means being signed by a european club for next season. A a All of us want to do Well for our country and ourselves a said team Captain Mike Windischmann at a news conference thursday the Day before the world cup starts with Argentina playing Cameroon in Milan. The . Opens Here sunday against Czechoslovakia. A but a added Windischmann a we know that we have to play Well As a team and the rest will  fellow defender John Doyle agreed. A it wont work if some one goes out on his own trying to show something a said Doyle. A a it a be like a High school All Star game with everyone on his own. A if the team has Good results if we play Well then Well establish our credibility and the rest will  it will take that to help overcome the Low opinion of the american game among european teams. While . Forwards Peter Vermes pc Vole dam of the Netherlands and Chris Sullivan Raba Eto of Hungary have found toehold in Europe other players Haven to been As fortunate. Most recently goal keeper Tony Meola and midfielder John Harkes failed to connect in a tryout with English club Sheffield wednesday. But an Eye popping world cup might change that. That a where minds will have to be changed since the american squad has placed the remainder of its workouts prior to sundays 5 . Game under wraps. A a we re not trying to hide anything a . Coach Bob Gansler said. A a we re just using what we re comfortable with to get our work done. A some people like to Shower with the windows open and some with them  although none of the american delegation was ready to reveal the teams plans for sundays game Gansler did make a general prediction As his team prepared to embark on a the sporting Challenge of our  a the first round is going to be pretty much what you be seen in the past a he said in summoning up memories of the closely marked Low scoring first round Trench warfare of the recent past. A a it a a physical sport and it will stay that Way. A while the fifa world soccer a governing body fair play Campaign is clearly the Way to go you can to wish tactical jockeying away. Its a Many a  the fifa Campaign is an Effort by the sports overseers to remove the More brutish aspects from the a winning ugly that usually characterizes the first round. Chief among the reforms for the 1990 up is the provision that prescribes a red Abr aka up or we e8ay impedes but Gansler predicts that rough play is nere to stay especially against game 3 opponent Austria whose stars carry 5nes like a a rambo Anton Pfeffer Robert peco."81 "1311 in a he i Chi we can to worry about what son the minds of the other team a Gansler said. We just have to make sure we squeeze the most out of our  a amps Scott a. Miller Mike Windischmann says a fall of us want to do Well for our country and  fifa Boss blasts Maradona Rome up a Joao Havelange president of soccer a ruling body fifa thursday launched an attack on Diego Maradona regarded by Many As the worlds Best soccer player. A when or. Maradona arrived at the 1986 world cup in Mexico he was just a Normal player a Havelange said. A then he became world Champion was put on a Pedestal earned a lot out of the world cup. What More does he want a what Maradona wants is for each of the 24 teams competing in the 1990 world cup to receive $400,000 from fifa to be shared among its players. The Argentine Captain recently suggested that fifa could afford this because it made so much Money out of the world cup. A it is fifa through the world cup that makes individual players so Well known a Havelange added. A if Ivan Lendl for example Isnit Happy with the Wimbledon arrangement he does no to Challenge Wimbledon. If he does no to like it he does no to  Maradona had said he wanted to talk with Havelange about extra fifa Cash for soccer players. Havelange said All players queries must be passed to him through the players National soccer associations. Havelange 74, spoke at a press conference 24 hours after being re elected to a fifth four year term As fifa president. He was clearly angry at questions concerning fifa a finances especially when Maradona a name was mentioned. A i am a businessman and i run fifa like an Industry a he said. A some people suggest that competing countries should have direct participation in the financing of the world cup. But 100 million of the 225 million Swiss francs generated at this world cup is being spent on the teams their hotels and so on. What More do they want a Havelange said there was a Good Chance his plan to split soccer games into four quarters instead of two halves might be scrapped. He wants a three minute break Between each Quarter for to commercials. The fifa president said he would like to see the 2002 world cup held in Asia or the Middle East and said there were four possible candidates Japan China South and North Korea As a single country and saudi Arabia. He said the 1998 venue would be decided next year adding that Brazil could be a Good candidate. The 1994 world cup will be held in the United states. Maradona attacks favored italians Milan Italy apr Diego Maradona criticized italian verbosity and lost his favorite Forward Claudio Caniggia for Argentina a opening game of the world cup against Cameroon Friday. The defending Champion argentines arrived in Milan thursday with a bang As Maradona their Star had harsh words about comments made by italian players. Italy steam should a let its game do the talking instead of bragging it will be Champion even before the first world cup game. A they talk too much. They should shut up a Maradona said of the favourites. Maradona who plays for italian league Champion Napoli said the italian players a Are telling everyone they Are going to win the world  a i never said anything like that before Mexico and still we won a he said referring to the 1986 world cup. Maradona would not comment on the decision by Argentina coach Carlos Bilardo to Bench Caniggia in favor of Abel Balbo leaving Maradona with Little help to break open the Cameroon defense