The sporting goods industry and world customs authorities said Monday that legitimate businesses could lose millions of euros (dollars) from the sale of fake World Cup merchandise.
Some Brazilian soccer fans are unhappy because they can't get to see the players at training camp.
England striker Michael Owen suffered an injury scare and was taken to hospital for a scan on his thigh on Monday, British media reported.
The city split by the Cold War was reunited in 1989 after the euphoric collapse of the Berlin Wall but divisions between the formerly Communist East and West Berlin's enclave of capitalism still linger.
At the crossroads of several major motorways and rail lines, Hanover is Germany's trade fair capital and lies within a half day's journey of all corners of the country.
The swanky Bavarian city of Munich fancies itself as the "capital of soccer" in Germany with a club that dominates the Bundesliga and supplies a steady stream of talent to the national team.
As the cows graze peacefully on a grassy hillock overlooking their practice ground in the idyllic village of Weggis, all appears to be bliss and harmony in Brazil's World Cup training camp.
Although there are four years to go for South Africa to host the FIFA World Cup tournament, a mini version of the world's most exciting soccer event will take place in the country this weekend.
A voodoo doll with five pins and the national emblems of all your enemy teams. Toilet paper with World Cup trivia. Pork slices emblazoned with a soccer player dribbling down the pitch.
Playmaker Hidetoshi Nakata will again look to provide the World Cup inspiration for Japan when Zico's men open their campaign in Germany.
Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira rejected on Thursday suggestions that his fullbacks Cafu and Roberto Carlos are too old for the World Cup.
Brazil's priority before the World Cup is to learn how to play when the opposition has got the ball, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said on Thursday.
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