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The 20 Football World Cup takes place in Brazil, starting on 12 June. For at least a couple of
months now sets, rather expensive sets, of mini (76mm tall) coke bottles made for the World Cup,
have been appearing on Ebay. They look like they may represent the countries involved but what
puzzles me is that there are 32 teams but only 20 bottles. You would be upset if you were a
supporter from one of the countries not represented by the bottles. Coke has done this before.
When the World Cup was held in the USA in 1994, mini Cokes were made for all of the 9 cities
holding games but only 8 of the countries were represented. The 1994 sets are VERY difficult to
obtain and I am still looking for four of the bottles.

Hopefully the price of these will drop
considerably later this year and I can then
justify buying a set. I’d hate to miss these as
mini Cokes are one of my specialist areas – I
have 945, all different of course, at time of
writing.

David Smith

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