July 4 – Additional tickets for the remaining four World Cup matches, including the final at Soccer City in Johannesburg next Sunday (July 11), have gone on sale today, FIFA has announced.
“About 900 premier tickets, going for R4900 each are already available,” FIFA spokesperson Pekka Odriozola said.
Another 1,000 tickets are due to go sale at 6pm today for the semi-final matches between Germany and Spain in Durban, as well as the Cape Town match between Uruguay and the Netherlands.
“We also have a few hundred tickets for the final, which will be available from 2pm today [Sunday],” Odriozola continued.
Odriozola also claimed that FIFA was very impressed with the number of spectators who have watched World Cup matches at the fan parks across the globe.
“Last night we surpassed the two million mark in South Africa,” he said.
“In total we have over 4.6 million fans that have gone to international and South African fan festivals.
“At the moment, Berlin is leading the overall statistics with now over one million fans attending fan fests.”
South Africa’s leading venue so far is Durban, where more than half-a-million spectators had visited the fan parks thus far.
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