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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / ROUND OF 16 : SPOTLIGHT : RUMOR OF THE DAY

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Dutch Coach Dick Advocaat tried to fake out the press--and Irish spies--when he switched to a conservative four-defender, four-midfielder, two-forward alignment in a scrimmage Saturday at the Florida Citrus Bowl.

On Sunday, he said that in today’s game he will revert to the 4-3-3 alignment he used in his team’s 2-1 victory over Morocco.

But some Dutch journalists say he showed the 4-4-2 as a decoy.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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