Iraq's soccer squad, which failed to qualify for the World Cup, will travel to Germany next month for a warm-up match against Tunisia. The June 7 contest will be staged next to a U.S. military base, an official said.

Iraq has agreed to stand in for Kuwait which canceled the match in the Bavaria-based city of Schweinfurt, Hans Schnabel, the city's special World Cup envoy, said. Tunisia, whose World Cup squad is based in Schweinfurt, will enter the four-week tournament on June 14 when playing Saudi Arabia in Munich.

Schweinfurt's soccer stadium, with a capacity of 15,000, adjoins to one of the city's two U.S. bases, each accommodating about 4,000 troops. The football ground is also bordering on a U.S. housing estate where staff and relatives of Schweinfurt's nearly 10,000 U.S. troops live.

``We're aware of the delicate circumstances under which the match is happening but no one has expressed any qualms about security or other issues,'' Schnabel said.

The Wiesbaden-based Federal Criminal Office, Bavarian police and Germany-based U.S. military authorities have all approved the match to go ahead, Schnabel said.