11.   Georgia Tech is fielding its strongest team in at least decade.

12.   Milutinovic acknowledged that, unlike Sampson, he fielded his strongest possible team, even if goalkeeper Jorge Campos was out with an injury.

13.   Nakhid started at Grasshoppers, the strongest team in Switzerland, then went to KSV Waregem in Belgium and won three successive Lebanese titles with Al Ansar.

14.   Northridge should have its strongest team next year, with starters Brian Heinle, Markus Carr, Jeff Parris and Carl Holmes returning.

15.   Schottenheimer, who entering the season thought this would be the strongest Chiefs team he has coached, is obviously trying to grasp their fall from the AFC elite.

16.   Schaap has vivid memories of the strongest teams and players of the past.

17.   The compromise was not enough to appease the British women, the strongest team, who boycotted the Amsterdam Games.

18.   THE NAMES The strongest teams are Japan in the lighter weight classes and former Soviet-bloc nations in the heavier classes.

19.   The major surprise was that the strongest European team, Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie, were beaten twice.

20.   The strongest teams are the Japanese, Korean, French and German men and the Cuban women.