Elephant's world cup!

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t’s the World Cup . But not as we know it !! Forget Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott, because Thailand has a new slant on the World Cup. Eight elephants in northern Thailand have kicked off their own World Cup, staging their own tournament with a jumbo-sized ball. Four teams with 2 elephants each, are representing Brazil, Germany, Italy and Spain (no representative for England I see!) at the Mae Sa elephant camp outside the city of Chiang Mai. The elephants can use either their front or rear feet to kick the ball into a goal guarded by another elephant. The camp's director Anchalee Kalmapichit said, "We had elephant football matches during the previous World Cup four years ago, and we found tourists really like it." Like the real World Cup in Germany, the elephants' matches will run for the next month. Let’s hope there’s no metatarsal injuries!