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20/04/2015 - 09:41

The match that made history

The ?Christmas Truce? was a onetime soccer event during the 1914 christmas cease-fire which brought together mainly British and German soldiers from opposite camps. The photograph commemorates the event as participants wearing fatigue of WWI British and German soldiers pose on December 11, 2014, in Comines-Warneton during the inauguration of a monument to commemorate WWI soldiers of opposite camps who played a game of soccer together during a Christmas cease-fire in 1914

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