Germany players to pay for fans' travel

Germany's players will pay for 600 of the country's fans to travel by bus to their final World Cup group game amid criticism of high transport costs at the tournament.

Train tickets, normally priced at $12.90 (£9.50) from central New York to the nearby Met Life stadium in New Jersey, where Germany will play Ecuador in the last Group E match on 25 June, were ramped up to $150 for the tournament before being reduced to $98.

Shuttle bus fares, initially priced at $80 to make a similar journey, have been dropped to $20. The New Jersey governor has said the inflated prices are because Fifa has refused to subsidise transport expenditure.

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