Cruel request for German star after World Cup 'disaster'

The devastation that rocked Germany arsenic the powerhouse shot federation crashed retired of the FIFA Women's World Cup was written each implicit the look of prima guardant Alexandra Popp arsenic she was forced to airs for 1 cruel selfie.

The No.2-ranked Germans needed to bushed South Korea aft World Cup debutants Morocco stunned Colombia successful a 1-0 win, but they lone mustered a 1-1 gully successful Brisbane connected Thursday night.

When Morocco's players recovered retired that Germany's stalemate meant they would beforehand to the knockout signifier of the tournament, they were understandably ecstatic. Video of the quality filtering done to the Moroccans portion they were inactive connected the transportation successful Perth went viral connected societal media.

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Germany's Alexandra Popp being forced to airs for a selfie aft the powerhouse shot federation crashed retired of the FIFA Women's World Cup, having won subordinate of the match. (FIFA via Getty Images)

In the meantime, Germany's Popp had to airs for photos with the subordinate of the lucifer award, having been judged champion afield aft scoring her 4th extremity of the campaign.

The look connected her look arsenic she held a selfie instrumentality and posed for a photograph — thing each subordinate of the lucifer award-winners person had to bash successful this tourney — was 1 of gut-wrenching pain.

"To beryllium honest, it's inactive hard to understand," Popp told German TV web ZDF.

"I inactive can't rather recognize what happened here."

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Germany won back-to-back tournaments successful 2003 and 2007, and is the lone federation to person secured aggregate FIFA Women's World Cup titles.

This tourney besides marks the archetypal clip Germany has failed to scope a knockout stage.

"If you privation to spot it arsenic a catastrophe successful sporting terms, past it's hard to reason against it," said Germany manager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.

Remarkably, Germany thrashed Morocco 6-0 successful its archetypal crippled of the tournament, belting the federation that would extremity up advancing to the knockout signifier astatine its expense.

Germany past mislaid 2-1 to Colombia, earlier being banished from the tourney successful its 1-1 gully with South Korea.

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