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German footballers still trapped in Tehran for snow

Tehran, Iran - Their flight cancelled after 9 hours of wait on the plane

The trip of the German football team FC Hansa Rostock, which plays in the Second Bundesliga, to Tehran, for disputing on Sunday a friendly game against Iran's national team, turned into an odyssey. Even if they managed to win 2 to 0, the joy didn't last for long, as the team got stuck into the worst snow storm that has hit Iran in the last 20 years, and caused as of Sunday a chaos in the ground transports...

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Rome, Italy, 01/08/2008 13:15
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