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General Manager Oliver Bierhoff commented on suggestions of a leak from within the German national team on Wednesday (27th June) during a press conference in Gdansk, Poland.

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SOUNDBITE: (German) Oliver Bierhoff, Germany General Manager:
"It is very difficult to find the people who leak this type of information. We just hope for the mole to remains where it is - underground. We just want the Italians to be left in the dark for as long as possible, and we have told our players that they will learn very late on who is in the starting line-up. We are absolutely certain it's not one of the players but rather someone in their surrounding environment. I think the Italians will be flexible enough, though, to see if (Miroslav) Klose or (Mario) Gomez will be in the starting line-up."

SOUNDBITE: (German) Oliver Bierhoff, Germany General Manager
"We need to take one thing at a time and play the semi-finals first. I absolutely warn people talking about victory parades that we have an extremely difficult semi-final to play. The Italians may not have the big names like they did in 2006 but they are a very compact unit and they play extremely efficiently - and that was shown in the opening game with Spain."