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An apple pie with an edible England flag made to support the English team for the upcoming soccer World Cup in Germany, is photographed at Liverpool Street train station, in central London. (Lefteris Pitarakis, AP)

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Twelve-year-old Tim Graefe from Berlin, celebrates in front of the German team hotel, Schloss Hotel Grunewald, in Berlin, while he waits for the German soccer players. (Roberto Pfeil, AP)

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Camille Walters, 15, models the tinted contact lenses she wears when playing soccer in Brentwood, Tenn. (Mark Humphrey, AP)

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Brazilian players Ronaldo, left, and Adriano are seen during a training session of the Brazilian team in Konigstein, Gemarny. (AFP)

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German model Vera Donisch poses for photographers with the hair style "World Cup", created by German hair dresser Waltraut Schlagwein in Cologne, Germany. (Hermann J Knippertz, AFP)

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Ghanaian goalkeeper George Owu is enveloped by netting after pulling down the net of the goal post while trying to make a save during a team training session at The Kickers Stadium, Wurzburg. (AFP)

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Yoshiharu Shinohara paints soccer ball patterns which are then attached to wind bells at his studio in Tokyo ahead of the opening of the Fifa World Cup in Germany. (AFP)

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A pedestrian walks past some of the 100 figures of Hamburg's most famous water carrier, Hans Hummel, in the city centre of Hamburg. (AFP)

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A German worker dresses a mannequin prior to the opening of the Fan Park in front of Bundestag, the German parliamentary building in Berlin. (AFP)

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A soccer fan sleeps besides his luggage on a bench after his arrival at the fan camp of the Westfalenhalle multi-purpose hall in Dortmund, western Germany. (AFP)

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