1.   Bulgarian soccer star striker Hristo Stoichkov, now playing for the Italian club AC Parma, scored the opening goal in the eighth minute.

2.   Chilean veteran soccer striker Ivan Zamorano on Friday prepared to return home and join his national team following a busy and profitable trip to Milan.

3.   Former England soccer striker Clive Allen has been signed as a kicker by the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football.

4.   The mother of Argentine international soccer striker Claudio Caniggia fell to her death from her fifth-floor Buenos Aires apartment Tuesday.