May 26 – FIFA plans to release 150,000 World Cup tickets tomorrow, including seats at the opening and final matches for next month’s tournament in South Africa, they announced today.
“All together, for the 64 games, it’s 150,000 tickets we’ll put back in the system,” said FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke at the handing over of Cape Town’s stadium ahead of the June 11 kick-off.
Tickets were available in all price categories and ranged from 200 seats at the South Africa-France match in Bloemfontein on June 22, to 2,000 seats for the semi-finals.
“It’s all categories,” said Valcke.
“It’s from game one to game 64.”
Details of the new tickets will be released tomorrow and go on sale on Friday morning (May 28), Valcke said.
South Africans have bought 1.3 million tickets of the roughly three million available, which Valcke said was a “very good response”.
He said: ”We are very pleased with the final result.
“We were a bit concerned a few months ago, now we are definitely pleased.”
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