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    Germany welcomed home by 300,000 fans

    Monday, June 30, 2008

    BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - More than 300,000 Germany fans welcomed their defeated team home at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Monday at a melancholy ceremony paying tribute to the Euro 2008 runners-up. Waving black, red and gold German flags, crowds packed a fan mile in front of the Berlin landmark monument at the start of a public viewing area that stretched two kilometres west to the 'Victory Column'. Some 600,000 fans watched the final here. 'It's disappointing to go so far in the tourn ...

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