Online ticket sales for the ICC Cricket World Cup
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The online ticket sales for the ICC Cricket World Cup next year has got a phenomenal response, according to the official ticketing partner for the quadraennial event.
If the initial response of India-England ICC World Cup 2011 match at Eden Gardens is any indication, the February 27 match is going to be a sellout, official partner KyaZoonga said.
"The tickets available in the first phase quota were all sold out for the India-England match in Kolkata. Overall, the response has been phenomenal for all the 13 venues and 14 teams of the cricketing extravaganza," chairman of KyaZoonga Neetu Bhatia told reporters here today.
A minimum of five to a maximum of 100 per cent of the tickets in each stadium will go on sale, she said.
She, however, could not specify the exact number of tickets that will be available online for Eden Gardens with the stadium undergoing renovation that will bring down the capacity to 68-70,000 seats in total.
The Eden, which had a capacity of about 90,000, will host four matches including one India-specific (against England on February 27, 2011).
Ticket prices will be Rs 1500 and Rs 1200 for the India-England match, while it will cost Rs 1,000 and Rs 700 for the three non-India matches.
Detailing about the online ticket sales, Bhatia said, "One person is entitled to buy four tickets per match in the centralised online sales that will be done through credit, debit cards in a secured transaction."
"There will be unique features such as 'view from the stand' and multiple currency options. To help choose a seat, one can see the view from that particular stand before buying a ticket.
"Other features include automatic Facebook and Twitter updates. Once somebody buys a ticket, it will be updated to his/her profile so that the friends/followers connected will get to know."
The online sales began on June 1 with the ICC president, Sharad Pawar, buying the first ticket through credit card.
The three non-India matches at Eden Gardens include South Africa-Ireland (March 15), Ireland-Netherlands (March 18) and Zimbabwe-Kenya (March 20).
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2011 Cricket World Cup Tickets
Thursday, July 1, 2010
The biggest cricketing competition, the fifty overs ICC Cricket World Cup, is set to be staged in nine months’ time, and ticket sales for the event have started with online tickets made available in the opening stage of the sales.
The tournament is going to be staged in the Indian subcontinent, and an announcement in this regard was made during a press conference held in New Delhi.
The three countries hosting the tenth edition of the prestigious One-Day International tournament are India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The craze for the game is at its prime in the region, with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all having been crowned world champions at least once in their limited over cricket history.
The tickets have been made available online since the start of the ongoing month, and the onus of the process has been taken by official ticketing partner KyaZoonga.
The three co-hosts are going to share the hosting of the games, yet the lion share goes to India, who will play host to the final for the second time, after hosting the 1987 thriller between old rivals Australia and England.
The press briefing was held in Bangalore, and was addressed by Neetu Bhatia, the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of KyaZoonga, and Brijesh Patel, Secretary of Karnataka State Cricket Association. The duo provided the details of the sales plan.
Bhatia disclosed that there are a total of two million tickets up for grabs throughout the tournament. "There are in total over two million tickets, overall that will come up for sale in different phases. Phase one which is online, which is currently on. Phase two which will be retail outlets and then finally the latter half of Phase two which would be venue sales, which will begin closer to the tournament, which will be sometime in January and February of next year," said Bhatia.
Bhatia added that the tickets have been made available well in advance, nearly nine months before the tournament, and the response has been good, with people from all over the world, especially countries like the United States and United Kingdom, buying the most number of tickets put on sale online.
Meanwhile, according to Bhatia, the tickets are being sold in such a way that restricts one person from buying them in bulk, which will help in preventing black marketing of the tickets.
The cap on maximum tickets was four; hence a buyer cannot purchase more than four tickets.
On the other hand, bulk tickets bought by corporate firms will be scrutinized by the concerned authorities.
"There is also a separate booking forum for any corporate or bulk orders. They are reviewed very carefully by not only us, but they are taken to the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) and ICC (International Cricket Council) for them to vet, and only then when we know it's a genuine buyer are those tickets released.
At this stage, not one single corporate order has been released. So again, the idea is fair and equitable access, so no one can really go out there and buy two hundred tickets and resell them," added Bhatia.
Unique packages for the hosts have also been made available to allow the customer to access a combination of matches to suit their preferences.
The tournament is set to capture the imagination of millions of diehard fans in the subcontinent. At the same time, the event would be an acid test for the fifty over format which is struggling to co-exist with the crash, bang and wallop twenty over version.
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ICC World Cup 2011 Tickets
Monday, June 7, 2010
ICC World Cup 2011 held in Asia continental means (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). Tickets of the ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 are now available for purchase online. The first phase of the ticket selling started on 1 June 2010, after the meeting of the central organizing committee of the tournament in Mumbai, India. Tickets for the ICC Cricket World Cup are now on sale. All prospective ticket buyers should read the terms and conditions before purchasing.
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FIFA 38,000 Unsold Tickets
Sunday, June 6, 2010
FIFA will put 38,000 unsold World Cup tickets costing up to $300 on to the market after the global recession badly dented its traditionally lucrative corporate hospitality packages.
The tickets, released on Monday only four days before the World Cup kick-off, will range from $200-$300, soccer's governing body said on Saturday.
They include posh lounge seats and complimentary drinks but no food.Jaime Byrom, head of FIFA's official travel agent MATCH, told Reuters last month that foreign demand for corporate hospitality packages, which usually make up a significant chunk of the organization's revenue, had collapsed because of the global recession and alarmist reporting about crime.
Foreign financial services companies dominated the luxury hospitality packages at the last World Cup in Germany in 2006 but their demand has evaporated during the recession.
Byrom said South African firms had stepped in to fill some of the gap.At the other end of the scale, FIFA said on Saturday about 15,000 tickets, close to the pitch with partially obstructed views, would be sold at the lowest price of $20.
Both types of ticket would be available only for cash at FIFA ticket offices in South Africa and would not include the July 11 final, semi-finals, opening match and any games involving South Africa.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said this week that revised seating plans and reallocation of tickets had freed an additional 100,000 seats for Africa's first World Cup, bringing the total to more than three million.
He said the proportion sold could exceed the 97 percent sold for the 2006 finals.
(Editing by Jon Bramley)
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posted @ 12:17 PM,
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World Cup Tickets
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tickets as low as 20 cents for the 2011 cricket World Cup went on sale Tuesday. More than 100,000 tickets were released in the first phase for the event co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from Feb. 19 to April 2.
"The prices confirm the promise we made that the tickets would be affordable and accessible," Sharad Pawar, chairman of the World Cup's central organizing committee, said in a statement.
"I am sure that cricket lovers in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka as well as those from around the world will be excited at the prospect of being able to plan their trips to the matches .... and be a part of the Cup that counts."
The International Cricket Council said that from July 1, technology will allow spectators to pick tickets for specific teams and venues and will even be able to see exactly where their seat is in a ground.
Tickets are available at www.iccevents.yahoo.com.
After the first phase of tickets, more will be available from stadiums and tour operators. "Further tickets will also be made available online," the ICC statement said. ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat was pleased with the progress made in organizing the World Cup.
"While there is a lot of important operational detail ahead of us, I am pleased at the progress we have made to date," he said.
Lorgat said in the next few months, safety and security aspects of the World Cup will be dealt with in detail by the tournament's security directorate — headed by Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar.
Pakistan was stripped as the fourth co-host after gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka team at Lahore in March 2009, killing six police and a van driver.
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posted @ 10:54 AM,
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Extra 100,000 Seats At World Cup
The number of seats at the World Cup has jumped by 100,000 to more than three million and 97 percent of them will be sold, FIFA said on Tuesday.
FIFA Secretary-General Jerome Valcke said revised seating plans and allocations had created the extra spaces and the percentage of seats sold could be slightly higher than at the finals in Germany four years ago.
Valcke had previously said total seats at the World Cup, starting on June 11 in Johannesburg, would be 2.88 million.
"We are getting closer and closer to the best World Cup ever in terms of ticketing which was USA in 1994," he told a news conference. "It is an amazing result that we have in South Africa."
In April, soccer authorities launched a drive to sell the remaining 500,000 tickets for Africa's first World Cup by allowing cash sales over the counter rather than the previous internet-only system, which Valcke acknowledged was a mistake in a developing country.
The move not only provoked a scramble for tickets but finally ignited huge excitement over the tournament in a country which FIFA, world soccer's governing body, last year accused of being apathetic.
Valcke strongly criticized FIFA's official ticketing agency, MATCH, for the collapse of its computer system under the strain when a final tranche of 90,000 tickets went on sale last Friday.
"I was very, very disappointed when the system went down....I felt very bad. It is really not very professional I have to say. Definitely I think it was wrong," Valcke said in unusually strong criticism of MATCH.
Valcke also said there were concerns over traffic problems around the giant Soccer City showpiece stadium for the opening ceremony on June 11, after major congestion delayed spectators at recent rugby and soccer matches in the area.
He said it was "amazing" how late South Africans came to matches and there could be a nightmare situation on June 11 unless spectators arrived early, with the security convoys of 50 heads of state expected to add to the problems.
"We must start this World Cup with a full stadium," Valcke said.
He appealed for fans to be seated by 1 p.m. an hour before the ceremony is due to begin.
Asked about a recent South African press report saying there was a very high chance of a terrorist attack at the World Cup, Valcke said: "We have to trust the system we have... We know that the South African police have done their best to ensure the highest security level."
He said local police would be supported by forces from all the 31 other competing nations and that the USA-England match on June 12, which has been identified as a potential target, would be the best protected match in the tournament.
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Fifa ticket sales online again
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Ticket sales for the soccer World Cup were back on track on Friday afternoon after a computer crash earlier in the day, Fifa said.
"Now the ticket over the counter sales [are] working, said spokesman Wolfgang Eichler, adding that 20,000 tickets had been sold.
Earlier, Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke was forced to apologise over the matter and said he had demanded a report from ticketing agent Match.
"Today I would like to sincerely apologise to all the fans that have been affected by the problems in the ticketing sales system," said Valcke.
Valcke said he and local organising committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan were "deeply moved" by the fans queuing for tickets on Thursday night and wanted to know what caused Friday's problems.
FNB, which is at the frontline of frustrated fans, said it was just as disappointed as the fans and could do nothing until Fifa had solved the technical problems.
"This is despite guarantees and promises given to FNB from Fifa's ticketing agent Match, as well as from Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke who personally reassured fans yesterday that there would be no further ticketing issues," said FNB.
The same thing happened when tickets went on sale earlier this year.
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posted @ 10:05 AM,
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More than 160,000 WCup tickets still unsold
Friday, May 28, 2010
By GERALD IMRAY
More than 160,000 World Cup tickets are still available with the tournament kickoff just two weeks away, and more than half of those will go on sale Friday, according to FIFA.
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke revealed the ticketing status at a ceremony marking the handover of Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium to World Cup organizers on Thursday.
None of the 64 games are sold out, and FIFA said it would release an extra 90,000 tickets — which were not taken by its various sponsors and affiliates — to the general public on Friday.
Organizers said the latest ticket release would be the last "big inventory available for the public" for Africa's first World Cup. They added there may be unannounced releases during the tournament.
Valcke said "all is nearly perfect" when asked about final World Cup preparations but the high-end category one tickets, which range from $160 to $900, appear to be causing problems.
More than 75,000 category one tickets, unaffordable for the majority of South Africans, are still available.
Valcke said FIFA had set a target of selling 97 to 98 percent of tickets to equal figures at the last World Cup in Germany, and he was hopeful organizers would reach the milestone. FIFA said it has already reached 96 percent sales of the total 2.88 million tickets available for the tournament.
A total of 4,000 tickets in all four categories are available for the opening game, nearly 7,000 tickets for the semifinals, and 861 for the final.
About 360,000 foreign visitors are expected for the tournament, nearly 100,000 less than initial estimates, which makes it unclear where the remaining ticket sales for the more expensive seats will come from.
Tournament organizers' ticket pricing is also believed to have contributed to poor sales on the African continent, where African fans are being asked to pay the same prices as Europeans or Americans. Valcke said less than 40,000 tickets had been sold on the continent outside of South Africa.
"We can definitely talk about a disappointment when we see the number of tickets sold in Africa," Valcke said.
Local organizing committee chief executive Danny Jordaan requested fans to buy more tickets, but also to be less noisy at stadiums and observe safety announcements and protocol.
"The level of noise in the stadium. It is an important matter that when we make an announcement in the stadium everybody must be able to hear it," Jordaan said. "We ask for that particular discipline. We cannot have unmitigated noise levels in the midst of the singing of national anthems. These are serious issues that we need to address."
Boisterous local fans are well-known for producing constant noise during games, helped by their plastic vuvuzela trumpets.
FIFA denied suggestions last year at the Confederations Cup that it may ban the vuvuzelas — which produce a loud humming noise — at the World Cup.
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2010 World Cup tickets, 2010 World Cup Fixtures and tickets
Friday, April 30, 2010
It's time to cheer for your favorite teams. The 2010 World Cup South Africa Draw took place on December 4, 2009. The 32 nations drawn into eight groups of four countries with the top two in each group advancing to the Round of 16. FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke announcing that the winner of the 2010 World Cup will win 31 million dollars (20.5 million euros)
The nine chosen South African cities to host the matches next summer are Johannesburg, which will have two venues, along with Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Nelspruit, Polokwane and Rustenburg. The World Cup begins on Friday, June 11, 2010 ending on July 11, 2010.
I am including the 2010 World Cup South Africa Schedule, fixtures, and World Cup tickets links for each game. I will also cover the games having players from the Italian Serie A. Here are the 32 nations list participating in the FIFA 2010 World Cup.
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FIFA begins push to shift tickets
Friday, April 16, 2010
By Soccernet staff
As FIFA begins its phase of over-the-counter sales for World Cup tickets, organising committee chief executive Danny Jordaan has conceded it will be "tragic" if the tournament witnesses empty seats.
As FIFA begins its phase of over-the-counter sales for World Cup tickets, organising committee chief executive Danny Jordaan has conceded it will be "tragic" if the tournament witnesses empty seats.
Danny Jordaan
GettyImagesDanny Jordaan unveils the official World Cup ticket
Around 500,000 tickets remain unsold for the finals in South Africa and from Thursday, locals will be able to make cash purchases of tickets at supermarkets, ticketing centres and online in an effort to ensure that the stands are adequately filled.
The global recession has been blamed for the prediction that 350,000 visitors will travel to South Africa, 100,000 lower than original estimates. It is also believed that high prices have put off European supporters.
Demand for hospitality packages has also been lower than expected but FIFA hopes that increasing the number of tickets available to local fans will result in bulging crowds when the tournament starts in June.
"If we have empty stadiums, it will reinforce the idea that football is not supported in the country and that would be tragic," Jordaan said in the Sun. "The reality is that this is a football-mad country.
"We have always said that it is important that we make this World Cup more accessible to the people and, with the over-the-counter sales, we believe this measure is consistent with the needs of the fans."
It is reported that 300 tickets for the final itself will go on sale to the general public on Thursday.
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World Cup Tickets in China
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets are going on sale in China, according to a Chinese agency here on Wednesday.
Wang Qi, vice president of China Sports Industry Group (CSIG), told media that his company has earned about 2,000 World Cup tickets from world soccer governing body FIFA..
The tickets selling in China, as part of the 14 tourist products designed by the CSIG, include those for group and knockout stages, even the the third-place playoff and the final, according to Wang.
"We focus on group matches involving world powers Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, as well as the Asian teams DPR Korea, Japan and South Korea," said Wang.
The CSIG came out the only authorized agency by FIFA for the ticket sale in China. It boasts a string of successful ticketing operations in China for the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
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FIFA Fake World Cup Tickets on the Internet
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Mark Bridge
Thousands of fake or bogus tickets for the football World Cup this summer in South Africa are being sold on websites including Gumtree for many times their face value, an investigation by The Times has found.
Fifa, the competition organiser, said that sellers were seeking to profit from fans desperate to get to the now sold-out England group games, semi-finals and finals.
The Metropolitan Police central e-crime unit said: “Tickets will only be issued in South Africa for the World Cup. So anyone claiming to be able to supply tickets will be either supplying counterfeit tickets or nothing will be received.
“Given that tickets for the World Cup can only be collected in South Africa, it appears that any site offering tickets will have criminal intent.”
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Fifa confirmed that it would not issue paper tickets until a few weeks before the competition starts — supplying them to the original applicant at collection points in South Africa. It said that if tickets listed for sale at sites other than Fifa’s are not fakes, they must have been allocated to other names, and should not be resold.
Fifa said: “Genuine tickets are sold online exclusively via the official website Fifa.com. A special team from Fifa’s legal affairs division is working with international authorities to monitor the internet for such illegal offers and to take action to combat them.”
Nevertheless, companies in Britain and overseas are openly reselling tickets for sold-out matches at a hefty mark-up.
Fifa’s rules state that tickets may only be used by the ticketholder named at the time of purchase, whose name will be printed on the ticket. Some resellers may attempt to have the name changed to the new buyer’s by abusing Fifa’s ticket transfer policy. This permits name changes for non-commercial reasons, such as illness.
The seller behind the first World Cup ticket listing that The Times viewed on eBay, the auction website, admitted to this. “kobi5842” wanted a starting bid of $3,400 (£2,223) or a “buy it now” price of $5,400 (£3,531) for two tickets to the World Cup final with a total face value of $1,200. He wrote: “I will try my best to personalise the tickets to the buyer of this auction, but I won’t refund the sales amount in case Fifa does not agree.”
This user’s account was suspended by eBay for suspected fraud after our intervention. However, he was back online at the time of writing, with a “100 per cent positive” feedback rating. eBay said: “In accordance with English and Welsh law, eBay UK strictly prohibits the resale of tickets to the Fifa World Cup. We do not allow anyone to list or purchase such tickets on eBay.co.uk and we prevent users from bidding on or buying tickets from sellers outside of the UK.”
No such measures were in place at Gumtree.com, the listings site, where The Times found “Mark” offering “VIP Suite” tickets to all England matches, and various others, for £2,500 each. He posted two mobile phone numbers and an e-mail address as contacts. Another user claimed to have “bought lots of tickets trying to ensure I gained a good selection of games”, leaving 22 for resale.
Gumtree said: “We were alerted to a small number of ads which have now been removed, and we have updated our detection technology... we always do our very best to prevent ads selling football tickets from appearing on the site.”
England fans hoping to buy valid tickets should go to Fifa.com on April 15 when returns may be available. Tickets are still available as part of travel packages from Fifa-approved tour operators.
Fans pay dearly
$895 (£587) — the amount Global Tickets in Manchester is selling category 1 tickets for England v USA for, against a face value of US$160 (£105)
Source: worldcupticketservice.com
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FIFA's Cheap Tickets For South Africans
Monday, February 22, 2010
World football body FIFA said yesterday it has increased the number of cheapest World Cup tickets to get more South Africans into stadiums at Africa's first World Cup during June and July.
According to the Johannesburg Saturday Star, FIFA slashed the price of at least 30 per cent of category 2 and 3 tickets, which cost up to 840 rand (110 dollars/ 80 euros), to 140 rand.
"We made clear right from the start of ticketing that we aim to increase the number of Cat (category) 4 tickets to up to 20 percent," FIFA said in a statement yesterday. "This does not affect the already sold tickets."
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said this week that the football body was targeting 20 per cent ticket sales to South Africans.
"We will increase the number of category four tickets because we cannot have a situation where the FIFA World Cup is in South Africa and people cannot see matches," said Valcke.
FIFA yesterday said the recategorisation meant that more tickets will be allocated to the cheapest category out of the seats currently available. "It is not about dropping prices. The prices are not touched. The price for category 4 start at R140 for group games," the organisation said. "How many it will be is still to be decided in details."
A total of 2.1 million tickets of 2.9 available have been sold for the tournament with seats at only 24 of 64 fixtures remaining.
South Africans have bought 898,170 tickets, followed by 121,190 in the United States and 98,056 in the United Kingdom.
Local fans had expressed unhappiness about the high cost of tickets and the rigid online application process, which has resulted in low sales in the country.
FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said this week he was worried ticket prices were scaring away fans for the world's most watched sporting event and asked tour operators to cut costs to help fill South African stadiums.
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VIP ticket sales for World Cup down 50 PCT
Friday, February 19, 2010
Only half of the VIP tickets for the World Cup have been sold four months before soccer's biggest event kicks off in South Africa.
FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke said only 2.1 million tickets have been sold for the tournament, which has a capacity of 2.9 million.
The biggest problem has been with "hospitality" programs, where ticketing agencies make the bulk of their profits by selling spots in luxury booths at significantly higher prices.
Valcke blamed the disappointing performance in the VIP sector on the economic crisis. Price gouging and security fears over South Africa are also causing many fans to forgo the World Cup.
Last year "was the worst period to sell hospitality programs," Valcke told reporters at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich. "I'm sure that it impacted at least by 50 percent the potential."
Valcke also said South Africa would not get 450,000 visitors as it had predicted. He said the number could be as low as 350,000, but he didn't have a precise estimate.
FIFA has worked hard to make the World Cup more accessible.
Valcke said world soccer's governing body negotiated lower plane tickets with some airlines, bringing the price of a round-trip flight from New York to Johannesburg down to $2,000 during the World Cup from a normal charge of $3,000.
To prevent empty seats stadiums, seats once designated for traveling Europeans, Americans and other soccer supporters are being switched to a lower-price category for South Africans. This will hurt profits but will also help realize FIFA's goal of ensuring that at least a fifth of spectators at the tournament will be locals.
The lower ticket sales don't hurt FIFA because the organization reached a deal with marketing firm Match Services AG seven years ago for this World Cup and the next one in Brazil in 2014, Valcke said. South Africa's organizing committee has broken even.
Still, Valcke acknowledged that things would need to be changed at future World Cups.
One suggestion he said would surely be studied was selling tickets directly to fans, instead of through ticketing agencies. FIFA would then require ticketing booths around the world, Valcke said, which he said would be part of a new "flexible" approach to selling seats.
Valcke promised that the World Cup would be safe at all venues, and although he noted South Africa's crime problems, he said they couldn't compare in any way to the breakaway region of Angola where Togo's team was attacked last month at the African Cup of Nations.
To better ensure the safety of teams, fans and media, FIFA was organizing a meeting next month that brings together the police chiefs and heads of security from all 32 teams playing in South Africa. The host country will also be represented by intelligence officials.
Valcke also stressed that the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, slated to host the final, would be completed by March 15.
"It's not fun not to have your main stadium now," Valcke said. {#}
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Over 2 Million Tickets Sold for 2010 FIFA World Cup
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A representative of Match Events Services, Mr Pascal Portes has given the assurance that there are enough tickets available for intending fans for the 2010 South FIFA World Cup and that over two million tickets of various categories have so far been sold.
He said the ticket sales has been extended to May this year with online sales and paper application forms available for fans who have no easy access to internet facilities.
Mr Portes, who said this at a press briefing on the 2010 FIFA World Cup presentation in Accra on Monday, explained that the sales would be on first-come first-serve basis and called on interested fans to contact accredited FIFA Tour Operators for the necessary directives.
He explained that the Black Stars- Germany opening match would cost 2,328 dollars while all the Ghana Group matches would cost 4000 dollars including air ticket, accommodation and transportation.
Abedi Pele Ayew, FIFA Football Committee member said Africa is blessed to showcase to the whole world, the highest level and the soccer prowess of the continent following the successful hosting of the Under 20 in Egypt, Under-17 in Nigeria and FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.
He said it is therefore a challenge to the whole of Africa to ensure a successful tournament and to prove that the continent deserves to host the Mundial and called for collective support for the success of the big event which must be accomplished.
Abedi Pele said the presence of fans and the press forms an integral part of the game of football and it for the media to showcase the sport as the passion that must meet the people's demand and attention.
"It is the greatest thing we have ever had on the African continent and we must congratulate members of FIFA for a good work done by ensuring that the World Cup is being hosted for the first time on African soil".
He noted that members of Africa's ex footballers are impressed with the performance of the new crop of players who have shown that they have matured and are genuine replacement of the talents and are poised to make the necessary impact.
Anthony Baffoe, a former Black Stars player and international football icon, said former footballers who plied their trade abroad are impressed with the continued exploits of such players as Didier Drogba, Micheal Essien, Samuel Eto'o Fils, Frederick Kanoute, Rigobert Song, Mikel Obi and others who have continued to carry the African torch high.
He said it is gratifying that Africa players are no more bench warmers but play integral roles in their clubs and predicted that Ghana has the chance of progressing at least to the semi-finals.
Randy Abbey, a management member of the Ghana Football Association said football is not only a passion of the country but it is also more than a religion or belief and that most Ghanaians and the African continent believe it is Africa's time and cannot wait for the beginning of the Mundial to show case the African talent.
Source: GNA
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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WorldCup Tickets
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Tickets for the World Cup semi-finals and final, as well as two of England's first round matches in South Africa, have sold out, FIFA said on Friday.
FIFA said there were no more tickets for England's matches against the United States in Rustenburg on June 12 and Slovenia in Port Elizabeth on June 23.
Tickets for the match between world champions Italy and Paraguay in Cape Town on June 11 and Brazil and Portugal in Durban a fortnight later have also sold out.
The final phase of World Cup tickets sales will open on Tuesday with more than 400,000 seats still available.
Fans have until April 7 to bid for tickets for 53 of the 64 matches at the tournament, which runs from June 11-July 11.
The fourth phase of sales is again to be conducted over the internet, and also for South African residents at bank branches, but this time will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
World soccer's governing body said it had sold 585,175 tickets, some 70 percent to local residents, in its third sales phase, which closed last month and which was drawn on a lottery basis and allocated this week.
(Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Justin Palmer)
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