FIFA worried by slow sale of tickets

  1. Posted on Wednesday 18 March 2009 - 13:05
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    Mernat Mafirakurewa, AfricaNews reporter in Johannesburg, South Africa
    2010 world cup local organising committee chief executive Danny Jordaan is set to brief the football governing body, FIFA with a plan to address the slow sale of tickets to this year's confederations cup. Close to 200,000 of the 646,000 tickets that are available for the June tournament have so far been sold.
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    Close to 200,000 of the 646,000 tickets that are available for the June tournament have so far been sold.

    Jordaan admitted that the committee was concerned by the seeming apathy displayed by South Africans and he would have to provide a possible solution to FIFA.

    The sale of tickets is not going well, Jordaan said. I will give the FIFA Confederations Cup and the FIFA World Cup organising committees a report on our proposals.

    “We are looking towards group sales for companies and we are also looking at simplifying the purchase of tickets. I am sure that they will support our measures,” he told Business day newspaper.

    Jordaan said while matches such as the June 21 showdown between Italy and Brazil at Loftus, and games featuring Bafana Bafana were always going to be draw cards, some of the less glamorous encounters were proving difficult to get fans excited about. “I think we have always understood that there would be popular matches and less popular matches.”

    “The less glamorous matches will be difficult to sell and we will have to do what we can to get the public interested.”

    The participants in the event are hosts Bafana, world champions Italy, Euro 2008 winners Spain, African champions Egypt, Copa America champions Brazil, Concacaf holders the US, Asian Cup champions Iraq and Oceania champions New Zealand.

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