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15,000 Applicants want to help women's World Cup

15.000 Bewerber wollen bei Frauen-WM helfenSteffi Jones is happy about 15,000 applications © SID-IMAGES/Pixathlon /.

To volunteers, there is no shortage Germany during the women's football World Cup. So far 15,000 applicants from 137 Nations have reported a total.


Frankfurt/Main (SID) - a total 15,000 applicants from 137 Nations want as volunteers at the women's Football Championship from 26 June to 17 July in Germany used to be. This is the balance of the tender that went on Monday to end of the German organizing Committee (OK). However, the OK had offered only 4000 posts. Thus the rate of the applications with 375 percent exceeds even that of the men World Cup 2006. There is the greatest demand for Frankfurt/Main, 55 percent of the candidates are female.


By the end of March, the final selection meetings will be a pre-selected with the applicants. The price increases or cancellations are made to end of April. "The great response to our volunteer program with the most different countries of origin of the candidates is a testament to the global interest in the World Cup." "It shows that the women's World Cup national and international appeals to the various groups of in society," said OK President Steffi Jones.