World Cup security review planned
 |  Slovenian police step in as trouble flares at the friendly with Germany |
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AMMERBUCH, Germany -- Security plans for the 2006 World Cup in Germany will be reviewed following fan trouble at Saturday's match against Slovenia, a top German federation (DFB) official said Tuesday.
"The incidents are being taken very seriously by the World Cup organizing committee," the DFB's security officer Alfred Sengle said. "The security plan has to be reviewed now."
Five German and 20 Slovenian hooligans have been charged by Slovenian police after violence marred the friendly international in Celje.
Two policemen -- one Slovenian and one German -- were slightly injured and several shop windows were smashed during the trouble before and after the game which Germany won 1-0.
A total of 65 people -- 45 of them from Germany -- were arrested as a result of the violence and later released.
Ticket requests for the 2006 World Cup finals hit the 5.4-million mark over the Easter weekend, the event organizing committee said Tuesday.
So far, 90 per cent of the 685,000 internet orders have come from Europe with 85 of these coming from the host country.
The first phase of ticket sales, which is taking place on www.fifaworldcup.com, ends at midnight on Thursday.
A lottery among the applicants for the tickets for the June 9-July9, 2006 tournament will then he held from April 15.
