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after 847 qualifying games with 2,464 goals and countless moments of drama, and after

years of groundwork by both the German local organising committee and FIFA, the time has finally come for the kick-off of the 18th FIFA World Cup™ in Munich on 9 June.

The excitement that this tournament has created is almost palpable. With each passing day, the media are increasingly turning their attention to the World Cup, fans of the teams that will be in Germany are closely following their heroes’ last-minute preparations, and all other football fans are also watching events with a keen eye.

That is hardly surprising though, because the FIFA World Cup™ is simply as good as it gets in football. For the fans, for the associations that have qualified and will soon see the fruits of their work, and above all for the 736 players who will be selected for the finals in Germany. If you ask any footballer about his fondest memories or his greatest successes, he will invariably say “playing in the World Cup”, or if he is one of the lucky ones, “winning the World Cup”. Those lucky ones – the champions of all World Cups played to date – will once again be in the spotlight at the FIFA Congress in Munich on 7-8 June.

Now, more than ever, representing your country is a special honour. At the end of 2004, the FIFA Executive Committee reached a crucial decision to give players enough time to prepare for the emotions that lie ahead by ruling that they must be allowed to recover and build team spirit from mid-

May 2006 onwards. After all, only players who have recuperated and relaxed will be able to play to their potential. With all the will in the world, players who are burnt out would not be able to do so, and as a result, they would miss out on some of the greatest moments in their careers.

Questions and claims regarding the release of players for the World Cup and for other international tournaments and matches have also been grabbing the headlines recently. The G-14, an interest group and the mouthpiece of a small number of “big clubs” have for many years now been accusing FIFA and UEFA of abusing their position to the detriment of club football, which is the bread and butter of footballers. It should be remembered, however, that it is an honour for a player to represent his country. It is also an honour for clubs that release their players for international matches. On top of that, players who shine on the highest international level are worth more on the transfer market. This year’s activity report – a free gift with this issue of FIFA magazine – quite clearly shows how FIFA works for the good of football all around the world. The more than 200 pages underline how

FIFA helps football to develop by showing solidarity, and how FIFA’s income is income for the entire football family.

In contrast to certain self-proclaimed “big clubs” that act against the best interests of our game’s development by pursuing increasingly selfish, short-term and myopic policies that concentrate on maximising income, FIFA works towards significant, sustainable improvements in conditions for all members of the worldwide football family, so that after Germany 2006, South Africa 2010 will be yet another highlight – for the good of the game, as well as for the good of the players themselves.

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FIFA magazineNo. 6/7, June/July 2006

official monthly publication of the Fédération internationale de Football association (FiFa)

Publisher: FiFa, FiFa-Strasse 20, P.o. Box, CH-8044 Zurichtelephone: +41-(0)43-222 7777telefax: +41-(0)43-222 7878internet: www.FiFa.com e-mail: magazine@fifa.org

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ContentDirector: Markus SieglerEditors: andreas Werz, Georg HeitzProduction: Hans-Peter Frei (Head)Layout: Marco Bernet, Philipp Mahrer

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DOPING AND SPORtS MEDICINEa clean tournament ......................................... 32–34

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let the show begin!the greatest show on earth – in a fascinating country with passionate football fans, genial hospitality and a diversity of regions

INtERVIEW

“it’s going to be a great experience”

How national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann plans to live up to the German fans’ great expectations

INtERVIEW

“england are ready!“Steven Gerrard, one of the best midfielders in the world, on england’s World Cup chances and his personal aims in Germany

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Spotlight on the trophy

By andreaS WerZ

the object of desire is 36.8cm high, weighs 6.175kg and is made of 18-carat solid gold.

Created in the early 1970s by Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, the FIFA World Cup Trophy is the most famous and coveted sports trophy in the world. This year, the trophy undertook a world tour from 6 January to 10 April, when

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at long last! the four-year wait is over:

on 9 June, the 18th FiFa World Cup™ will

finally kick off! the tournament in Germany

promises to be a tournament of superlatives

from every point of view.

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more than 100,000 football fans were captivated by the glistening sculpture in thirty-one cities across twenty-eight countries.

From 9 June to 9 July, thirty-two teams will be striving to hold the winners’ cup aloft (“the holy grail of world football” according to FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter) at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium at the end of a 31-day tournament.

Anticipation ahead of the 18th FIFA World Cup is enormous. Never have tickets for a sports event been in such great demand. Altogether thirty million people clamoured to buy little more than three million available tickets. For the initial 800,000 tickets, 8.7 million applications were received, and in the third stage of preliminary sales six million people applied for 300,000 tickets. “We’d have needed stadiums with a capacity of around 1.4 million to satisfy demand,” claimed FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi.

NO LOGICThe 2006 World Cup excites the

masses from Liechtenstein to Vanuatu and from Hawaii to Greenland. The

GOLEO VI the dancer

Consultancy firm BBdo Germany

recently published a list of the most

commercially valuable footballers

in the game today. 19 of the 20

players with the highest estimated

value, which is based on a number

of criteria including earnings from

contracts and promotional work, will

be playing at the 2006 FiFa World

Cup™. Cameroon’s Samuel eto’o is

the only notable absentee.

Ronaldinho

1. ronaldinho 47.0 2. david Beckham 44.9 3. Wayne rooney 43.7 4. Samuel eto’o 30.7 5. lionel Messi 30.4 6. Zlatan ibrahimovic 30.1 7. ronaldo 29.4 8. Frank lampard 28.8 9. thierry Henry 28.7 10. Michael Ballack 28.6

11. Steven Gerrard 27.6 12. raul 27.2 13. Zinedine Zidane 27.1 14. Cristiano ronaldo 26.8 15. didier drogba 26.4 16. alessandro del Piero 18.6 17. ryan Babel 18.2 18. ruud van nistelrooy 17.4 19. lukas Podolski 16.3 20. andriy Shevchenko 14.3

the most valuable footballers (market value in eur million):

leads the way

a lion by the name of Goleo Vi is the

official Mascot of the 2006 FiFa World

Cup™. the roman numeral six after

his name simply indicates he is the sixth

Goleo in the family tree, following on

from his father Goleo V like in a royal

family. Goleo Vi is 2.30 metres tall and

weighs 220 kilograms, the ideal weight

for a young lion. despite his lithe and

powerful physique, Goleo Vi – who is

normally accompanied by his friend Pille,

a talking football – is a laid-back character

bursting with the self-confidence typically

associated with the king of the jungle.

Goleo Vi’s great passion is football

and he wants the 2006 FiFa World Cup

Germany™ to be one huge, joyful and

unforgettable party, spending his time as

“a party animal” celebrating, singing and

dancing with fans from all over the world

for four whole weeks.

world’s biggest single-sport event will be televised in over two hundred countries all around the world, and the cumulative number of television viewers is expected to be a record thirty billion or more. Up to twenty-five television cameras will be

following the action during the sixty-four matches so that nothing escapes the football fan’s critical gaze.

Most aficionados watching in the stadiums or at home are expecting to see yet another Brazilian triumphal

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More than football crazyeconomic engine of the eu, home of the trade show and nation of tourism are just some of the labels attributed to Germany. FIFA magazine provides a few more reasons for a trip to the host nation of the 2006 FiFa World Cup™.

By GeorG HeitZ

With more than six million members, the German football association (DFB) is the world’s largest single sporting association. Germany is a footballing country, and so concern for the fate of the national team is correspondingly high. After the 4-1 defeat in a friendly against Italy in March 2006, even renowned news magazine Der Spiegel deemed it necessary to run a cover story on the form and state of mind of Jurgen Klinsmann’s team. And, before an official announcement was made in April, the debate over whether Oliver Kahn or Jens Lehmann should keep goal at the World Cup had been practically a daily staple of the media for the previous eighteen months.

The country’s love of football can primarily be attributed to the World Cup triumph in Switzerland in 1954. Coming as it did just nine years after the end of World War II, it was hailed

as the starting point of the (economic) upswing.

Yet Germany has much more to offer than a sizeable helping of football craziness. It is the home of innovative carmakers and hardly any other country stages as many international trade shows. The south is famous for its wine and its spa towns, the north for its ports. And the whole nation is a paradise for beer lovers, boasting a wealth of varieties unrivalled anywhere in Europe.

PEACEFUL COExIStENCEThe reunification of the once divided

country in 1990 has not been without its problems, though this is no surprise given the Herculean nature of the task. But, in spite of this burden, Germany has remained the economic engine of the European Union (EU) – and a country of immigration. By and large, the

Turkish, Iranian, Albanian and Polish immigrants in the 16 federal states live in peaceful coexistence with their hosts. At the end of 2004, some 6.7 million holders of a foreign passport were living in Germany. When it comes to religion, the Christian churches are predominant, having a combined membership of almost 53 million – out of the country’s total population of 83 million.

The largest state in terms of area is Bavaria, part of which is alpine. Second place is occupied by Baden-Wurttemberg in the south of the nation. The largest city is the capital Berlin (3.3 million inhabitants) followed by Hamburg (1.8 million) and Munich (1.3 million).

Germany’s cities are multicultural and they are home to buildings that symbolise the country’s cultural history. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Cologne Cathedral and the Nikolai Church in

Leipzig are just three examples of the many sights worth seeing. But a visit to Hamburg, Munich or Hanover is also to be recommended. All of these cities are attractive in their own way, with culinary offerings as rich and varied as the range of entertainment options. The smallest host city, Kaiserslautern, exudes a warm provincial charm. In contrast, Frankfurt, the home of the German stock exchange, and Dortmund, located at the heart of the Ruhr, the country’s most densely populated region, are pulsating metropolises. These are just a few of the cities that are staging Fan Fests, large-scale events where every World Cup match can be watched on big screens. And as Germany has one of

the best railway systems in the world, the individual destinations can all be reached in comfort and on time.

MERkEL’S ENtHUSIASMThe biggest employer in Germany is

the electronics multinational Siemens (with some 417,000 employees), followed by the German Post Office and automotive giants Daimler Chrysler and Volkswagen. However, in February 2006, the unemployment rate was at 12.2 percent. Germany’s prime trading partners are France, the USA and the United Kingdom.

In political terms, Germany is a federal parliamentary democracy. In November 2005, there was a change

in government when Social Democrat chancellor Gerhard Schroder made way for Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats. Merkel leads a grand coalition made up of the two major parties and she is the country’s first female chancellor. The federal president, and thus the highest-ranking politician in Germany, is Horst Kohler, who assumed office in 2005. The Merkel government supports the FIFA World Cup™ with the same level of enthusiasm as its predecessor.

For more information on events for fans at the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, visit http://fanguide2006.fifaworldcup.com/en/public_viewing.

procession in the twelve state-of-the-art German stadiums. Any other outcome, they say, would be tantamount to a major sensation. However, Carlos Alberto Parreira, coach of the star squad that includes Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaka and Roberto Carlos, prefers not to talk about it: “Of course we want to be world champions again; of course we have a brilliant team. But we’ll be facing several strong opponents in this World Cup. Brazil are not the only ones who can play top-class football.”

Parreira is not affecting modesty. The famous coach knows that football is not

a logical game and that it never fails to jolt and shock at the very top of the scale. Defending champions France faded out abysmally after the group round in the 2002 World Cup, newcomers Greece triumphed in EURO 2004, and it was not the traditional superpowers of Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal from Africa who qualified for this year’s World Cup but four debutants in the shape of Angola, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo.

SPECtACULAR?Six World Cup fledglings, including

Ukraine and Trinidad & Tobago, will be

taking their bow in Germany, proving yet again how effectively the world’s number one sport, with over 250 million active players, is progressing not only in traditional football territory but also in emerging nations, and that the so-called minnow is a thing of the past.

Every fan is secretly hoping that the David and Goliath story will be repeated again in this year’s tournament – with perhaps the same outcome as in biblical times. There are also high hopes that new players will make their mark to swell the ranks of Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, David Beckham,

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Hamburg docks and Leipzig’s Nikolai Church are just two of Germany’s many tourist attractions.

The Hohenzollern bridge in Cologne, with the famous cathedral in the background. – Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government are committed football fans.

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the “Kaiser” and his teamas a player, coach and president, Franz Beckenbauer (photo) has

won practically all there is to win in the game. the “Kaiser”, as

the former world-class sweeper is known, is now also enjoying

success as the president of the 2006 FiFa World Cup organising

Committee Germany. He is in charge of a team of 260 full-time

employees, and ever since Germany was announced as the host

of the 2006 World Cup in the summer of 2000, Beckenbauer

has been overseeing key projects and acting as a figurehead. in

recent months, he has visited all 31 countries that will be doing

battle with Germany at the 18th FiFa World Cup™.

the main men at Beckenbauer’s side on the local organising

committee are Horst r. Schmidt (1st vice-president and acting

president as well as general secretary of the German football

association (dFB)), Wolfgang niersbach (executive vice-president)

and dr theo Zwanziger (vice-president and executive dFB

president).

the three vice-presidents are responsible for the following

areas: accommodation and tourism, tournament organisation,

venues and stadiums, opening and closing ceremonies, FiFa

Congress, transportation and travel, ticketing, protocol, safety,

hospitality (Schmidt); marketing, Pr, media and communication,

it and telecommunications, statistics, press and media facilities,

accreditation (niersbach); general organisation, law, finance,

human resources (Zwanziger).

15,000 volunteersan event of the magnitude of the FiFa World Cup™ would be

unthinkable without volunteers. over 50,000 people – including

2,000 pensioners – from 168 countries applied for the 15,000

roles at the event in Germany. they will be working in a number

of areas, including accreditation, media, transportation and travel,

it and telecommunications, fan and guest hospitality, tournament

organisation, logistics, project management and ticketing.

“unpaid but priceless” could be the motto of the volunteers, a

third of whom will be working in the fan and guest hospitality

sector. “the volunteers will be the smiling face of this World

Cup, welcoming guests from all over the world, answering their

questions and simply being there for them. they will help to shape

the image of the World Cup,” said dr theo Zwanziger (photo),

the local organising committee vice-president responsible for the

volunteer programme.

the volunteers will certainly be well equipped for guests from all

over the world. apart from their impressive language credentials

– between them, they speak more than 45 different languages

– the volunteers have had the benefit of intensive and detailed

training courses in recent weeks and months, with particular

attention having been paid to hospitality and service matters.

Zinedine Zidane, Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba.

The outlook for a spectacular tournament with goals galore is very promising. “I’m expecting a dramatic and dazzling tournament,” enthuses Ottmar Hitzfeld, one of the world’s most successful coaches (twenty-two league and cup titles, and former manager of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund) and now a television commentator for this year’s World Cup in Germany alongside many other coaches and former players. “Most of the thirty-two finalist teams play attacking football and will go for goal rather than play defensively.”

bRILLIANt bACkDROPThe ball is now at the feet of the

players, coaches and teams. Everything is on tap to produce a superlative tournament – a breathtaking festival of football. The local organising committee and FIFA, with the enthusiastic backing of the German government, federal states and all twelve World Cup venues, have spent years planning, negotiating and producing impeccable conditions for everyone involved.

The mammoth event has been meticulously organised, the stadiums are stupendous, team accommodation and training facilities are superb, the atmosphere in the stadiums will

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�2 bases, 12 venuesundoubtedly be electric, the matches will be officiated by professionally and meticulously trained refereeing trios as never before. As for the hosts themselves, they will be bending over backwards to claim the precious title – as in 1974 when Germany first organised a World Cup – in an effort to avoid early elimination and to keep the pot on the boil. The giant party under the motto “A time to make friends” and the race for the 6.175kg solid gold prize can begin!

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this map shows where the 32 finalist teams will be based during the 2006 FiFa World Cup Germany™, as well as the location of the 12 stadiums that will be hosting the 64 matches. More information on the stadiums can be found on pages 140-143 of this edition of FIFA magazine.

Top right: will Mexico (green shirt) be a step ahead of

Argentina at the World Cup? – A Togo fan makes a plea to

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USAHamburg

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