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Football: World Cup - Quotes Of The Day

Thursday 25 June 1998 23:02 BST
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"This is for the whole of South America. Many people are starving there. The economic and financial situation is terrible, but people at least have football to take their minds off things." Paraguay's goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert, whose side have reached the second round.

"The players stopped fighting. They looked completely lost." Bulgaria's departing coach, Hristo Bonev.

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