IBARAKI, June 6: Thieves dressed in Irish team kits made off with 225,000 yen ($1,812) in cash from a pizza shop in a stadium north of Tokyo before the Germany-Ireland match, local police said Thursday.

About 20 men “who looked like foreigners” and were dressed in green Ireland kits arrived at Shinji Taguchi’s small pizza outlet on the first floor of the Ibaraki stadium an hour before the kick-off, police said.

After they had been served and left, the 65-year-old Taguchi found that a plastic bag full of cash that had been taped to the inner side of the counter was missing.

“We are looking for these people, but it will be difficult because we don’t know their names or anything. They just came into the shop as customers,” said a police spokesman.—Reuters