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Winning the World Cup trophy is a dream for every football player, but manufacturing the trophy is also an honorable profession for a company and its employees in Italy.

GDE Bertoni, located in a small Italian town about 30 minutes outside Milan, has dozens of years of experience making trophies and medals for the world's top football matches, including manufacturing the prized World Cup trophy.

The World Cup trophies made by the company are actually gold-plated replicas of the original gold trophy which is owned by the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA). The original stands 36.8 centimeters high and weighs nearly 6.2 kilograms.

(Source: Reuters)