Striker Cacau scored his third goal in two games for his adopted country to seal Germany's 3-0 win over Hungary in a World Cup warm-up friendly in Budapest on Saturday.

Brazilian-born Cacau, who qualified to play for Germany last year, came off the bench to add to the two goals he scored in the 3-0 win over Malta to strengthen his case for the starting line-up for Germany's World Cup side.

Germany start their World Cup campaign in Group D on June 13 against Australia and fly to South Africa on June 7 after their final warm-up game against Bosnia-Herzegovina next Thursday.

Alongside Cacau, Lukas Podolski and Mario Gomez weighed in with goals to cap impressive performances.

With Germany captain Michael Ballack injured and out of next month's World Cup, Bayern Munich striker Miroslav Klose took over the skipper's armband.

Having played in last weekend's Champions League final defeat, Bayern Munich quartet Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Mueller, Hans-Joerg Butt and Germany's new World Cup captain Philipp Lahm were all rested.

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