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After game, Germany and U.S. teams meet again - at hotel

After a crushing 2-0 loss to the U.S. in a Women's World Cup semifinal game Tuesday, the German team bused to its downtown hotel, where it ran into the celebrating Americans.

Repeatedly.

The housing situation for teams in this tournament has been an uncomfortable and controversial one. Unlike the men's World Cup, where teams have their own hotels and training bases, FIFA has booked competing teams into the same hotels and forced them to use the same practice fields.