Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Few thousand World Cup match tickets on sale

By Ofentse Mokae
04 May 2010


Local soccer fans who still wish to have 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets will be delighted to know a few thousand tickets went on sale today.

World football governing boday FIFA announced today that tickets became available following the ongoing finalisation of seating arrangements at all World Cup match venues and further adjustments of different ticket allocations.

The available tickets are for some of the matches in Cape Town and Durban.

However, the opening match, the first round match between Brazil and Portugal, the two semi-finals and the final are all unavailable.

The tickets are available in at least 11 Ticketing Centres, 18 selected Shoprite/Checkers and more than 600 FNB branches nationwide.

Reports say South Africans are leading the sales, having bought more than one-million-100-thousand tickets. Americans have bought 130-thousand seats, followed by the United Kingdom with 97-thousand.

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