Al-Ahram Weekly Online 14 - 20 March 2002 Issue No.577
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Germany at last

OLIVER DOMKE scored in the dying minutes as Germany won its first field hockey World Cup title with a 2-1 win over Australia in the championship match at Kuala Lumpur.

Domke's opportunistic strike on a defensive lapse by the Aussies ended Germany's 31-year wait for the World Cup.

Former champion Australia failed to repeat its triumphant 1986 performance as the Germans blunted its striking power and clinched Saturday's win on Domke's 64th-minute strike.

Sascha Reinelt shaped the German match-winner by cutting through a host of tentative defenders and passing the ball to Bjorn Michel. Michel quickly switched the ball to the unmarked Domke, who slotted it into the boards.

Germany's captain, Florian Kunz, who was voted the final's Man of the Match, said the win was a dream come true. "We've waited for this title a long, long time," Kunz said. "It's a moment to relish, but it hasn't quite sunk in yet."

Bernhard Peters, the German coach, said his team had made him proud but added that he, too, had "not yet absorbed the momentous result."

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