World champions Germany will wear black armbands and there will be a minute’s silence before Wednesday’s friendly against Australia to honour the victims of the French Alps air crash.
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Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB), has confirmed they will honour the victims of Tuesday’s disaster before the friendly international in Kaiserslautern.
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More than half of the victims of the air crash are believed to have been German.
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“It is the one clear thought which overshadows everything else,” said Niersbach.
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“We owe it to the victims and their families that the football family share in their grief.”
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Sixteen German teenagers on a school exchange trip are feared to be among the 144 passengers and six crew killed when a Germanwings jet crashed in the French Alps en route to Duesseldorf from Barcelona.
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The school group were from Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, the hometown of Germany defender Benedikt Hoewedes.
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“Everyone knows that I come from Haltern am See and I still have lots of friends and relatives there,” Hoewedes, a World Cup winner, wrote on his Twitter account.
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“I am unbelievably sad over this terrible accident and wish all the families and their loved ones the strength to get through this.”
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