USA not feeling the love from back home and the trickiest broadcasting moment from the last week
Two-time champions Germany crashed out of the Women’s World Cup after drawing 1-1 with South Korea in their final Group H match in Brisbane. Photograph: Getty ImagesIt wasn’t unreasonable for the German football association to assume their team would get out of theirgroup – after all, they’d achieved the feat in every previous appearance at the tournament.
So, you can’t really blame them for not planning on an early trip home. That, though, has presented a problem, according to Fox Australia. “The association had made no contingency plans for the team to exit the tournament so early – and so have booked no tickets for flights home.” “Now, they are facing a major logistic problem. Currently, many flights to Germany are full, meaning the team has no set departure date and may have to depart in small groups whenever tickets are available.”
So fancied were Germany by many, they predicted their stay in Australia would last right up to and including the final. At this rate, it might still.
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