Soccer: Bhutan win 'other final'

Bhutan routed Montserrat 4-0 in "the other final," played between the two lowest-ranked soccer countries in the world, just hours before Brazil and Germany met in the World Cup final in Japan.

Captain Wangyel Dorji struck a hat-trick to clinch it for the Himalayan country in the capital of Thimpu, located at an altitude of 2250m.

Bhutan, the youngest member of world soccer's governing body Fifa, are ranked 202nd and only ahead of the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat.

The game, recognised by Fifa as an official international, was played in a festive atmosphere before a cheering audience of about 10,000 as a romantic prelude to the World Cup final.

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