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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : A SNOW JOB

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

In Italy, everyone is an expert on soccer. This just in from coach Alberto Tomba.

The three-time Olympic Alpine skiing champion told an Italian radio station that Italy’s Sacchi is “a very lucky coach” who relies on “a saint who makes wonders, St. Roberto (Baggio).”

No truth to the report Sacchi appeared on a competing station and suggested Tomba use longer skis with sharper edges.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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