Maybe it had to be that not even Brisbane played along with the enlightenment of the German footballers. The metropolis on the east coast may always brag about its coolness and its 300 days of sunshine a year, but on Wednesday it wasn’t “big, bold, beautiful” – meaning big, bold and beautiful. The rain clouds hung too thickly over the skyscrapers in the city center, which also includes the stadium in which the DFB women are playing the third World Cup group game against South Korea (Thursday 12 noon CEST/ZDF).

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