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Hoffenheim’s backer Dietmar Hopp has harshly criticized the performance of the team at the end of the season as a late collapse saw them tumble down the Bundesliga and miss out on European football. “The 0-0 against Fürth, that was inexcusable,” the 82-year-old billionaire businessman said the club’s annual general meeting on Saturday. “The last three games were unacceptable, the 1-5 in Mönchengladbach even embarrassing.” Missing Europa League qualification would cost the club about 20 million euros (21.1 million dollars) and falling out of the top four, and the Champions League places, “much,…