First trophy is in the bag! German targets World Cup with tiny nation

First trophy is in the bag! German targets World Cup with tiny nationForget Curaçao or Cape Verde — at the 2030 World Cup, a new mini-nation with a German coach wants to make a name for itself.“Qualifying for the 2030 World Cup is the main goal,” Lars Hopp recently emphasized to Bild. The 50-year-old has been coaching tiny Vanuatu for almost a year now. Luckily, he had already made himself popular among the island nation’s 350,000 inhabitants after just a few weeks