German camp keep their heads while Polish paper demands theirs

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04.06.2008 , aktualizacja: 04.06.2008 16:42
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Fot. Radosław Jóźwiak / AGENCJA GAZETA
German Football Federation (DFB) president Theo Zwanziger has played down controverisal pictures in a Polish newspaper demanding the Poles beat neighbours Germany in their opening Euro 2008 game on Sunday.
On Wednesday, Polish tabloid newspaper Super Express printed a modified picture of Poland coach Leo Beenhakker holding the heads of Germany boss Joachim Loew and captain Michael Ballack.

The picture had the headline: "Leo, bring us their heads!", but the Germany camp reacted calmly to the provocation ahead of the opening Group B game in Klagenfurt, Austria.

"Poland are our neighbours and friends," said Zwanziger at Germany's Euro 2008 camp here in south Switzerland.

"We have a very good relationship with them and everything is now just about what happens on June 8."

But Dutchman Beenhakker reacted angrily when he heard what Super Express had printed.

"That is shit. Here one sees what sick people there are in this world," he told German sports agency SID.

"I disassociate myself from this made-up photo and hope that it is now only about the sport."

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