Do you know that,

…more than 150.000 viewers worldwide followed the matches of the V Men’s Youth World Championship on the first 12 match days live in the internet. All matches are streamed live and free of charge in the internet!
 

…approximately 17.000 spectators attended the matches of the preliminary round, the eighth- and quarter-finals.

… the finals in Erd are sold out.

…15 referee couples from 4 continents are taking part at this tournament.

…for the first time at a Youth World Championship, 24 teams are participating.

 
…World Championships are also a meeting point for former top stars. For example: Peter Kovacs from Hungary, Christian Berge from Norway, Christian Schwarzer from Germany and Valter Matosevic from Croatia are acting as head coaches of their teams. Former world-class goalkeeper Marianne Racz is working for the organizing committee. Furthermore Heiner Brand and Martin Heuberger from Germany, Iouri Schevzov from Belarus and Staffan Olsson from Sweden visited the V Men’s Youth WCh.