The 2010 Organising Committee has strongly condemned suggestions that Germany?s football players should wear bullet-proof vests during the 2010 World Cup.

The head of the German security firm that looks after that country?s football federation says players, like Michael Ballack, will need such protection if they venture away from the team?s Pretoria hotel.

It has also recommended that the players not stray too far away from the hotel.

The German Football Association is reportedly looking to step up security around the team?s five-star hotel and will recruit 20 extra security guards.

?That security company is exaggerating and over dramatising issues to get the attention of the German football federation,? says the Organising Committee?s Rich Mkhondo.

Mkhondo says there will be more than enough security personnel for the 2010 World Cup.

?We will show them the kind of security preparations we have, 41 000 security personnel. These will be police officers and 700 hundred of them will be deployed in and around the stadiums,? says Mkhondo.