A natural swamp outside the town of Hyrynsalmi was converted into 22 playing fields -- marked with yellow tape, more resembling pig pens than a world cup site.
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Each time six players were trotting and crawling through the muddy field. There was no offside, no definite penalty box an unlimited substitutions were made on the fly.
Even so, each team looked for their own tactic to bring the ball forward in this chaotic and largely uncontrolled game.
"We have been training how to walk in the swamp on our fours and to kick from the side -- that's the only way we could move it, when the ground got this soft," Brocke said, adding it was guts and always a bit of luck that decided the better team.
Photograph: Roni Rekomaa/AFP/Getty Images
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