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World Cup opener and final tickets sold out

Article Published: Friday 16 April 2010

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Tickets for opening game, final and two semi-finals of the football World Cup sold out within 24 hours of the remaining 500,000 tickets going on sale over the counter to fans in South Africa, FIFA announced Friday.

All games in Cape Town and the port city of Durban are also sold out, the World Cup organizing body said in a statement on a second day of serpentine queues outside ticket offices across the country.

A little under 100,000 tickets were snapped up in the first full day of sales, FIFA said.

"We are very pleased with the interest and with the latest figures," Horst R. Schmidt, chairman of the FIFA Ticketing Sub-Committee said in a statement.

Some tickets for a quarter-final game and round of 16 games were still available Friday, but most of the remaining tickets are for group stage games or playoffs.

South Africans have responded enthusiastically to the simplification of the ticket buying process in this last and final sales phase.

Before now, locals could apply for tickets on the internet or in FNB branches - but the physical tickets were not available until now. On Monday, they will also go on sale in supermarkets.

On Thursday, thousands of people queued for tickets outside 11 FIFA ticketing centres nationwide and 600 branches of First National Bank group, a World Cup sponsor.

Some queued for around 20 hours in the hope of securing a ticket to the opening game between South Africa and Mexico on June 11 in Johannesburg or the final on July 11, also in Johannesburg.

Tempers were frayed in some places as the ticketing system buckled Thursday under the weight of the demand, causing further delays to an already slow process. Police at a ticket centre in the capital Pretoria had to use pepper spray to repel customers who tried to rush the centre in frustration at the wait.

On Friday, the situation was calmer although long waits were still reported at many ticketing outlets.

The organizers of the first World Cup to be held in Africa are hoping that South Africans will pick up the slack following disappointing sales to fans in Europe.

Of the 2.2 million tickets sold before this week, South Africans already accounted for close to 1 million tickets.




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