Kaiserslautern match to honour crash victims

World champion Germany will wear black armbands and there will be a minute's silence before its game against Australia to honour the victims of the French Alps air crash.

German Football Association president Wolfgang Niersbach confirmed it will honour the victims of Tuesday's disaster before the international in Kaiserslautern on Thursday morning (AEDT).

More than half the victims of the air crash are believed to have been German.

"It is the one clear thought which overshadows everything else," Niersbach said.

"We owe it to the victims and their families that the football family share in their grief."

Sixteen German teenagers on a school exchange trip are feared to be among the 144 passengers and six crew killed when a Germanwings jet crashed in the French Alps en route to Dusseldorf from Barcelona.

The school group were from Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, the hometown of Germany defender Benedikt Howedes.

"Everyone knows that I come from Haltern am See and I still have lots of friends and relatives there," Howedes, a FIFA World Cup winner, wrote on his Twitter account.

"I am unbelievably sad over this terrible accident and wish all the families and their loved ones the strength to get through this."

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop MP, has also confirmed two Australian citizens were on board the flight.


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Published 25 March 2015 9:04am

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