Group H / Argentina vs. Croatia

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 26, 1998 12 AM PT

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SITE: Bordeaux

TIME: 7 a.m. TV: ESPN2, Ch. 34 RADIO: KWKW (1330 Spanish)

* ABOUT ARGENTINA: Daniel Passarella’s team has yet to give up a goal, having blanked Japan, 1-0, and Jamaica, 5-0. Its plus-six goal differential is second-best in the tournament to France’s plus-8.

* ABOUT CROATIA: Davor Suker leads Croatia with two goals. Coach Miroslav Blazevic promised to put out his best team.

* OUTLOOK: Both teams are sure of passage to the next round; at stake is an easier second-round opponent.

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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.