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It has become a tradition for the German economist Joachim Klement to predict the winner of the FIFA World Cup, using his computer model. He started doing this twelve years ago as a joke, but so far his predictions have always come true. Good news: this year, his model points to the Netherlands national football team as the winner.


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It has become a tradition for the German economist Joachim Klement to predict the winner of the FIFA World Cup, using his computer model. He started doing this twelve years ago as a joke, but so far his predictions have always come true. Good news: this year, his model points to the Netherlands national football team as the winner.


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