Brazil book castle for World Cup second round

Holders Brazil have booked a converted castle as a base for their World Cup second round match. Brazil, who will play their second-round tie in Dortmund if they finish top of Group F, will stay at the Schlosshotel Lerbach located in Bergisch Gladbach...

Holders Brazil have booked a converted castle as a base for their World Cup second round match.

Brazil, who will play their second-round tie in Dortmund if they finish top of Group F, will stay at the Schlosshotel Lerbach located in Bergisch Gladbach between Cologne and Leverkusen, said the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) yesterday.

"It is in the middle of an im-mense park with its own lake," said the CBF on their website.

Brazil have already announced that they will stay on the outskirts of Frankfurt for the first round and before that they will spend two weeks at a lakeside hotel in Switzerland.

The CBF added that they had set up an alternative near Kaiserslautern, where they would play if they finished second in a group which also includes Croatia, Japan and Australia.

Brazil's second round match will be against either Italy, Czech Rep., Ghana or the US.

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