Switzerland's national football team coach Ottmar Hitzfeld advises his team next to Germany's team coach Joachim Loew (L) during his team's international friendly football match at St Jakob Park stadium in Basel, May 26, 2012. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer
BERNE (Reuters) - Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld was greeted with broken goal posts and goats grazing on the pitch when he visited the team's planned World Cup training pitch in Brazil on Wednesday.
Swiss television showed Hitzfeld struggling to keep a straight face as he described conditions at the run-down Antonio Fernandes Municipal Stadium in Guaruja, an hour and-a-half drive from Sao Paulo.
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