SA: Half of Confed tickets sold

  1. Posted on Friday 1 May 2009 - 11:27
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    Sam Banda Junior, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi
    South Africa's road to the 2010 looks positive as their hosting of their first big international tournament - the FIFA Confederations Cup is reported to have sold almost half the tickets. Media reports said about 320,000 tickets out of the 640,000 tickets have been sold.
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    The development comes at a time as the country recently complained that the Confederation Cup ticket sale would hit a setback due to South Africans reluctance to buy tickets in advance.

    The Committee is hopeful that they would sell all the tickets adding that most of the tickets were sold via the internet and through the country’s banks.

    Chief executive Danny Jordaan said ticket sales for the Confederations Cup were boosted by corporate clients, who had taken up 55 percent of those sold following a big internal marketing drive in recent weeks according to a Reuters report.

    The report further said that the organizers now plan to "over the counter" sales in main ticket centres in the rich southern African country.

    Some of the main cities to host the Confederation Cup in the country which is the first to host the World Cup in Africa are Pretoria, Johannesburg, Rustenburg and Bloemfontein.

    "By simplifying the process we are certain South Africans will find it easier to purchase their tickets and hope this will create the necessary demand to sell out all matches,” said Jordaan.

    The Confederations Cup starts June 14 and winds up on June 28.

    The African continent is expected to experience top football from World champions Italy, Euro 2008 champs Spain, African champs Egypt and South American champions Brazil.

    The full list set to participate in the tournament which is expected to be a warm up to the World Cup 2010 by the host South Africa are South Africa, Spain, Iraq and New Zealand (Group A) while Brazil, Italy, United States and Egypt feature in Group B.

    Some of the top players to grace the tournament include Spain and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres and Manchester City dribbling wizard Robinho.

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