France 98 – CFO – Overview

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“No Organising Committee, whether it be for the World Cup or the Olympic Games, can do without the help of volunteers. They are absolutely essential,” says Michel Platini, the Co-President of the 1998 French Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup.

A general rallying round has, in fact, become a tradition when it comes to organising major events, recent examples in France being the bicentenary celebrations for the French Revolution in 1989, the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and more recently in 1997, the Journées Mondiales de la Jeunesse (World Youth Days).

Outside France, thousands of volunteers have likewise answered the call for help for such large-scale events as the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the World Cup USA 1994 and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

FRANCE 98 is to be no exception to this rule: 12,000 volunteers will be involved in organising the 1998 World Cup finals from 10 June to 12 July, the largest volunteer programme ever undertaken in France (9,000 volunteers worked at the Albertville Olympics).

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