Fans pin their hopes on voodoo doll

A VOODOO doll (pictured above) with five pins and the national emblems of all your enemy teams.

Fans pin their hopes on voodoo doll

Toilet paper with World Cup trivia. Pork slices emblazoned with a soccer player dribbling down the field.

These are just a few of the unofficial World Cup-related items available in German stores and on German websites as merchants try to cash-in on World Cup mania before the month-long international soccer tournament kicks-off on June 9.

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