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Germany players pay for fans to travel to game
Key takeaways
- Germany will be aiming to win the World Cup for a fifth time as this summer's tournament
- Germany's players will pay for 600 of the country's fans to travel by bus to their final World Cup group game amid criticism of high transport costs at the tournament.
- Shuttle bus fares, initially priced at $80 to make a similar journey, have been dropped to $20.
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Germany will be aiming to win the World Cup for a fifth time as this summer's tournament
Germany's players will pay for 600 of the country's fans to travel by bus to their final World Cup group game amid criticism of high transport costs at the tournament.
Train tickets, normally priced at $12.90 (£9.50) from central New York to the nearby Met Life stadium in New Jersey, where Germany will play Ecuador in the last Group E match on 25 June, were ramped up to $150 for the tournament before being reduced to $98.
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