
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 24, 1992                   TAG: 9203240031
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

WORLD CUP SITES ANNOUNCED

The month-long international soccer tournament will be held in the United States for the first time this summer.

\ Organizers of the 1994 World Cup on Monday announced nine U.S. stadiums - one enclosed by a dome - where soccer's premier tournament will be played.

It's the first time the United States has staged the quadrennial event, first played in Uruguay in 1930, and the first time a championship game will be played in an indoor stadium - the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit.

The other sites: Foxboro Stadium outside Boston, Soldier Field in Chicago, the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Calif., the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., and the Washington Redskins' stadium in the nation's capital.

RFK Stadium is the probable Washington site, unless the Redskins complete construction of their new stadium by 1994.

The 52-game tournament will be played from June 17 to July 17, 1994.

The United States and defending champion Germany automatically qualify, but the 138 other countries entered must play 582 qualifying games to see which 22 join the field.

by CNB