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Three world champions visit at once!

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<p>FIFA World Cup winners Guido Buchwald (Germany, 1990), Paulo S&eacute;rgio (Brazil, 1994), and Christian Karembeu (France, 1998) visited the home of football history on Wednesday, 18 January 2017. After being given a tour of the collection and having posed for enough photos with other visitors, the former professionals were reunited with the original FIFA World Cup Trophy &ndash; on permanent display in the museum &ndash; and signed the Wall of Champions. </p> <p>After being reunited with the world&rsquo;s most famous trophy, the World Cup winners took part in the third edition of the museum&rsquo;s German panel discussion event Anpfiff alongside New Zealand legend and Oceania&rsquo;s Player of the Century Wynton Rufer. The former players discussed what it takes to become a champion before answering questions from an audience of over 100 people &ndash; including Greece's 2004 European Championship-winning coach Otto Rehhagel. </p> <p>As well as being a World Cup winner in 1998, Karembeu won the 2000 UEFA EURO Championships and the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup with France. Paulo S&eacute;rgio won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994 and the UEFA Champions League with Bayern Munich in 2001. Buchwald was a World Cup winner with Germany in 1990 and played a key role in the Final of that tournament after he effectively marked Argentina's star player Diego Maradona out of the game. It was a performance that earned him the nickname "Diego" in his home country.&nbsp; </p> <p>We conducted small interviews with the world champions after they had toured the museum, you can hear from them and see how they got on below.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFIFAMuseum%2Fvideos%2F1767075736943458%2F&show_text=1&width=560" width="100%" height="465" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></p>