{"id":97676,"date":"2014-07-15T22:05:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=97676"},"modified":"2014-07-15T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:05:26","slug":"germany-were-so-confident-they-were-going-to-win-world-cup-they-printed-five-million-victory-stamps-before-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=97676","title":{"rendered":"Germany were so confident they were going to win World Cup they printed five million victory stamps BEFORE the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Germany.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97674\" alt=\"\u0533\u0565\u0580\u0574\u0561\u0576\u056b\u0561, \u0586\u0578\u0582\u057f\u0562\u0578\u056c\u056b\u0581 \u0570\u0565\u057f\u0578\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Germany.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Germany.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Germany-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Germany-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Germany printed five million stamps commemorating their fourth World Cup title before the final on Sunday had even started.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-cent stamps are due to go on sale this week after the first commemorative copies are offered to the players and staff.<\/p>\n<p>If Germany had lost the final, the stamps, printed by Deutsche Post, would have had to be pulped.<\/p>\n<p>The stamps were ordered by Germany&#8217;s Finance Ministry, which holds 21 per cent of Deutsche Post&#8217;s shares through the state-owned KfW bank.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, it was reported yesterday that a new German football shirt bearing the four stars for Germany&#8217;s four World Cup wins sold out within hours of the team&#8217;s triumph in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Germany were crowned world champions on Sunday night and Adidas wasted no time in commemorating the achievement &#8211; by revealing a kit with four stars above the badge.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning Adidas&#8217; website was already displaying a &#8216;sold out&#8217; sign next to the new shirts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Germany printed five million stamps commemorating their fourth World Cup title before the final on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,173,224,137],"tags":[12415,12413,12414],"class_list":["post-97676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-football","category-news","category-world","tag-final","tag-german","tag-victory-stamp","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}