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Colombia cancel training after boots go missing

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-06-01 10:37

DUESSELDORF, Germany, May 31 - Colombia cancelled a World Cup training session on Wednesday because their football boots went missing on the way from Poland.

Part of the squad's luggage got lost on the way from Chorzow, where they beat Poland 2-1 on Tuesday thanks to a freak goal from goalkeeper Luis Enrique Martinez, to Duesseldorf airport on Wednesday.

Colombia had planned to hold a training session on Wednesday evening in Moenchengladbach, west of Duesseldorf, where they are due to face hosts Germany in a warm-up game on Friday, but cancelled it because of the missing boots.

Poland and Germany, both in Group A, are eager to play Colombia because their style is similar to that of Costa Rica and Ecuador, the other two teams in their group.