Photographer: Ian MacNicol/Getty ImagesGermany’s soccer players raised the World Cup trophy a week ago in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium. Shortly afterward, they broke it.
German national team players chipped off a “small piece” of the World Cup trophy during celebrations of their overtime victory against Argentina, Wolfgang Niersbach, head of the country’s DFB soccer federation, told Der Spiegel.
“Don’t worry,” Niersbach was cited by the weekly magazine as saying. “We have specialists that can repair this.” He didn’t say when or how the trophy was damaged. The players damaged a replica of the 18-carat gold original.
FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, took the original from the Germans in their locker room after the award ceremony and replaced it with a gold-plated replica, Delia Fischer, a spokeswoman for the organization, said today by phone. The original cup, which contains 4.13 kilograms (146 ounces) of gold and bears the name of each winner since 1974, is back in a safe in Switzerland, she said.
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