Word: sepp
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...game that decides the hosts of soccer's World Cup. Germany, whose bid to host the 2006 event was fronted by the supermodel alongside tennis ace Boris Becker and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, on Thursday knocked out South Africa's, championed by its legendary former president, by one vote. Although Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's world governing body, FIFA, had backed South Africa's bid on the grounds that it was time to give the African continent a first opportunity to host the world's biggest sporting event, Mandela's men reckoned without the cunning of Franz Beckenbauer, legendary German...