NOTEBOOK: THIS FAN WATCHED AS MUCH AS PLAYERS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services When Brazil plays in the World Cup, the camera is as likely to be on a woman in the stands as on a star on the field. The fan in focus is Suzanna Werner, the girlfriend of Ronaldo and a favorite of French TV directors orchestrating the Cup telecasts around the world. Werner has been so prominent on the World Cup broadcasts of Brazil games that a British bookmaker offered odds on how many times she would be shown during the broadcast of Tuesday's Brazil-Netherlands semifinal. Done Brothers, Britain's largest independent bookmaker, offered odds of 11-8 on her being shown fewer than five times, 3-1 on exactly five times and 5-4 on more than five times during the 90-minute game, the Daily Mirror reported. The winner? Fewer than five. The cameras concentrated on the action as Brazil won in a penalty-kick shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. . Lot at stake: Bigger bets are being made on World Cup games and one of the biggest payoffs would go to a father of four from England. Adrian Fitzpatrick, a Birmingham florist, won a bundle from the 1994 Cup and could do the same this time around. Almost a year ago, Fitzpatrick placed a $30,000 bet with bookmaker William Hill The name William Hill may refer to the following: People
v. o·bliged, o·blig·ing, o·blig·es v.tr. 1. To constrain by physical, legal, social, or moral means. 2. in May by winning the Premier League. Now Fitzpatrick stands to collect $908,500 if Brazil wins at the Stade de France History The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. It hosted one of France's greatest sporting triumphs to date—the 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup final on July 12, 1998. on Sunday. It's happened to him before. Fitzpatrick won $660,000 when Brazil won the World Cup and Manchester United won the English League in 1994. ``I'm a saver as well as a speculator Speculator A person who trades (i.e. derivatives, commodities, bonds, equities or currencies) with a higher-than-average risk, in return for a higher-than-average profit potential. ,'' he said. ``I am not a compulsive gambler. I am someone who sits down and looks at the form of the teams over the last four years.'' Ticket takeover: One of the many ticket scandals at the World Cup has forced a business takeover by soccer's marketing consultant. ISL ISL - Interface Specification Language. Xerox PARC. Interface description language used by the ILU (Inter-Language Unification) system. Includes descriptions of multiple inheritance, exceptions and garbage collection. E-mail: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>. Worldwide said it was buying the remaining 51 percent of ISL Marketing France and assuming day-to-day management of the Paris-based firm. Glen Kirton, senior vice president of ISL Worldwide, said the move was a direct response to the scandal, in which the president of ISL France and two other people were arrested in a ticket-fraud investigation. ``We allowed ISL France to use the ISL title totally because of the World Cup,'' Kirton said. ``We have looked closely at the workings of the company and there is no doubt in our minds that the business is legitimate.'' Vote of confidence: Ticket scandals are just one area in which the World Cup organizers have been buffeted. Fan violence left a policeman in a coma and ravaged rav·age v. rav·aged, rav·ag·ing, rav·ages v.tr. 1. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate: A tornado ravaged the town. 2. a historic area of Marseille Marseille or Marseilles City (pop., 1999: city, 797,486; metro. area, 1,349,772), southeastern France. One of the Mediterranean's major seaports and the second largest city in France, it is located on the Gulf of Lion, west of the French Riviera. , and the tournament started with the official airline, Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde , on strike. But the organizing committee received a vote of confidence from Glen Kirton, who was director of the 1996 European Championships in England, a tournament praised for good management. ``I personally find this has been a superb tournament,'' he said. He noted that problems with tickets and hooliganism also hit the '96 event, although on a smaller scale. ``Organizing an event of this size is a huge task,'' Kirton said. ``Some people will always take advantage and some people will always complain. . . . I think this World Cup has been every bit as good as the last one.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO French and Brazilian soccer fans celebrate outside the Arc de Triomphe Arc de Triomphe Largest triumphal arch in the world. A masterpiece of Romantic Classicism, it is one of the best-known monuments of Paris. It stands at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, at the western terminus of the Champs-Élysées. in Paris. Francois Mori/Associated Press |
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