"In Greenland, we don't have grass and have to play on sand so this is really different. "This tournament is really a lot of fun," said player Anders Cortzen from a small town mid-way up the west coast of Greenland. Indeed, the atmosphere had all the electricity of the World Cup - with one decisive exception: Most of the players kick for small clubs in their homelands and had only rarely played in international matches. Pauli - not recognized by the government in Berlin - was called into existence solely for the tournament. Pauli, a part of Hamburg normally associated with the lascivious Reeperbahn and for supporting every failure of cult team FC St. In addition to the finalists, Tibet, Gibraltar and Greenland also made the trek. Also among the announced crowd of 4,122 were the players from the teams vanquished earlier in the week in a tournament featuring six teams hailing from regions recognized as independent nations neither by world soccer's governing body FIFA nor by the United Nations. On a cloudy, cold day in Hamburg, the final match of the FIFI Wild Cup saw the crowd favorites from Zanzibar, made up of two islands off the coast of Tanzania, fall to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - recognized as an independent nation by nobody except Turkey - on penalty kicks following a hard-fought 0-0 draw in regulation. SPIEGEL Media Menü SPIEGEL Media aufklappenĪs it turns out, the FIFA World Cup isnt the only international football tournament being hosted this year by Germany.Alle Magazine Menü Alle Magazine aufklappen.SPIEGEL-Heft Menü SPIEGEL-Heft aufklappen.Gutscheine Anzeige Menü Gutscheine aufklappen.Marktplatz Anzeige Menü Marktplatz aufklappen.Partner-Inhalte Anzeige Menü Partner-Inhalte aufklappen.Wissenschaft Menü Wissenschaft aufklappen.
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