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The 2006 FIFA Globe Mug was the 18th FIFA Globe Cup, the quadrennial international football world champion event. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to hold the event in July 2000. Teams standing for 198 nationwide football associations from all 6 booming continents joined the certification procedure which started in September 2003. Thirty-one groups certified from this procedure, together with the host nation, Germany, for the finals event. It was the second time that Germany staged the competitors, the very first as a unified country (the other was in 1974 in West Germany), and the tenth time that it was held in Europe. Italy won the competition, declaring their 4th Globe Mug title. They defeated France 5-- 3 in a penalty combat in the final, after additional time had ended up in a 1-- 1 draw. Germany beat Portugal 3-- 1 to complete in third area. Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Trinidad and also Tobago, as well as Togo made their very first look...