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If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to rile UEFA, it’s a bunch of random German blokes stripping off and playing football in the nude.

That’s what the chaps in question decided, holding a naked match to protest against money in football.

The clothes-shy gang visited the Stimberg-Stadion in Oer-Erkenschwick, just north of Dortmund, and shed their threads to fight commercialism.

“The football system is sick – that’s why we all get naked,” said film director Gerrit Starczewski, 34. It’s always the arty types behind things like this, isn’t it?

“Everybody wants to have authenticity,” he added. “But I think you’re only

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