A man looks at a sculpture bearing German national football team players' footprints in Ascona, Switzerland [Images].

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Sculptor Stephan Schmidling made the prints in bronze.

The next game Germany [Images] will play against the team of Austria in Vienna Austria, in their third game in Group B football match of the Euro 2008 [Images] championships.

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