Special Report: 2006 FIFA World Cup    

    BERLIN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- German police confirmed on Saturday more than 20 soccer fans, most of them German, were arrested amid violence overnight in the city of Frankfurt after the FIFA World Cup opening matches.

    Three German and three English fans were arrested after a brawl close to the city's central station, said German police.

    German police also arrested 15 people in another part of the city following brawling in a restaurant, among them were five Germans, one English and two Polish fans.

    In a third incident in the region four more people were taken in, two of them German.

    German police said these arrested people were simple drunken fans and not hooligans.

    "They were simply soccer fans who had been drinking too much," said a spokeswoman for German police. Enditem