Five weeks before the women’s World Cup kicks off in France, and there is a hive of activity high up in the Montparnasse Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Paris. The mascot for the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which will be played from June 7 to July 7 AFP/PATRICK HERTZOG It is here, on the 49th floor and with an unobstructed view over the French capital, that tournament organisers are working to put everything in place for a month – from Jun 7 to Jul 7 – where women’s football will be in the spotlight like never before. And yet, the organisers admit that they have been caught out by the extent of the demand from foreign fans for tickets. “We didn’t see it coming,” says Erwan Le Prevost, head of the local organising committee. While the opening match will be played at the Parc des Princes in Paris and both the semi-finals and the final will be staged in Lyon, in between matches will also be played in some of France’s smaller provincial cities, from Nice on the Mediterranean coast to Valenciennes in the far north. “We did not always choose big stadiums, because we didn’t want any…