Frankfurt: Mario Gomez and Miroslav Klose scored five goals apiece in Germany's 24-0 victory over an under-20 selection of South Tirol on Wednesday.
Gomez and Klose each played one of the 30-minute halves in Germany's World Cup training camp. Germany coach Joachim Loew used 20 players. Other scorers were Piotr Trochowski (three), Cacau (two), Stefan Kiessling (two), Andreas Beck (two), Toni Kroos (two), Arne Friedrich, Sami Khedira and Lukas Podolski.
Netherlands beat Mexico 2-1
Robin van Persie celebrated his first international match in six months by scoring two first-half goals, and an under-strength Netherlands squad beat Mexico 2-1 in a World Cup warmup match Wednesday in Freiburg, Germany.
Manchester United-bound forward Javier Hernandez scored after the break, but a resurgent Mexico could not force an equalizer in the final match before Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk planned to announce his final 23-man World Cup squad.
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France beat Costa Rica 2-1
Mathieu Valbuena scored in his international debut to help France beat Costa Rica 2-1, with Raymond Domenech's team showing encouraging signs in a new attacking formation.
Valbuena hit a low shot past Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas in the 83rd minute after coming off the bench in the second half, breaking a 1-1 tie.
Domenech, who called up the inexperienced Franck Ribery just before the 2006 World Cup, seems to have taken another clever gamble on the 25-year-old Valbuena, who was playing semiprofessional ball only four years ago.
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