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Germans don't want World Cup boycott, DFB president says

Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB), speaks during the official handover ceremony of the UEFA Champions League trophy in Berlin, Germany, April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (Reuters)

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany does not want a boycott of football's World Cup tournament, the president of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach told Reuters on Tuesday. "We don't want to go down that route of a boycott – that won't accomplish anything," Niersbach said in an interview. "We don't want to get into a situation like with boxing where there are several parallel associations. That doesn't work." Following Sepp Blatter's re-election as FIFA president last week, the English Football Association's chairman Greg Dyke said his organisation would support any boycott led by UEFA, the sport's European federation. (Editing by Ossian Shine)