Niersbach has confirmed that one of Germany team
players has accidentally damaged the World Cup trophy.
Photo: World Cup trophy
On July 13 the European players were given a trophy by
FIFA after they had beaten Argentina 1-0 in the final of the
2014 Mundial.
However, Joachim Low's men might have been celebrating
the victory so hard, as they returned home and even toured
Berlin with the trophy, that they somehow caused damage
to the piece of art, goal.com reports.
Niersbach was quoted saying:
"At one point, a small piece of our World Cup trophy was
chipped off. But do not worry! We have specialists on the
case who can fix it. We have investigated persistently who it
was that damaged the trophy, but the investigation was
concluded without a result."
Good news is that the trophy presented to the winners in
Brazil was not the original worth €10 million (appr. N2.2
bn), but a replica.
The original trophy was first introduced in 1974, having 18
karat gold and a malachite base. Not surprisingly, FIFA has
been treating the precious piece with care tending not to
trust football associations with it. On numerous occasions the
World Cup trophy was targeted by thieves.
In 1983, the year when Brazil won the champions' title, it
was stolen in Rio de Janeiro and believed to have been
never recovered. The trophy had to be substituted by its
replica presented to Brazil's president in 1984.
Meanwhile Germany has been facing one of the most
successful periods in its modern football history, as in the
recent FIFA ranking the Europeans climbed to the top for the
first time in around 20 years .
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