Some facts about The Hague World Cup

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At least half a dozen advertisement modules are regularly splashed in the screens across halls, press centre, big screens, sideways of stadium. Rabobank, adidas too have their own Netherlands hockey star based ads.
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Its only second time both men and women world cup are held simultaneously, both by the same country, The Netherlands.
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The World Cup has 34 umpires

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Everyday 550 volunteers will be at work
Security is managed by a 768-strong team

Each pitch here is made up of 12 kms of fibre and 1,399,680 blades of artificial grass

A single match requires 26,000 litres of water

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About 2800 accreditations have been issued so far, including journalists, support staff, officials, volunteers etc

According to KNHB, 65 Dutch clubs celebrated the World Cup Club Day on 29th May.

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The Hague World Cup program comprises 28 official side events like Youth, Veteran Beach Hockey etc

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The entire world cup will run to at least 5320 minutes of play, involving 432 players

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The second pitch here called Greenfields was built in 67 days

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The main Kycenora stadium is basically a football stadium. An elevation has been created over the football turf to lay hockey turf. The stadium will be back to football after the hockey world cup.

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Even when India hosted the world cup in 1981-82, it was on the play fields of another sport, cricket.

With additional input from official publications