Disasters balance for the ticket sales of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Now came out: German fans have not even ordered TOTAL 2000 (!) Tickets for the three group matches of the national team!
The DFB are 21,000 tickets for the World Cup available. 1400 which will go to the so-called "football family", as to the relatives of the players and club coaches. Fans have purchased and only meager 1916 cards. Frightening!
"That makes me think. I think that there comes together a lot, the rates certainly play a role. Therefore, we need to work over, "said DFB chief Theo Zwanziger.
DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach tried to relativize the low sales figures: "They are normal and reflect the outcome of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, as we had sold at the first game against Saudi Arabia in Sapporo, a total of only 540 tickets to German fans."
For the rest of the European World Cup participants, the image looks like. Only the English fans have fully exploited their national quota. Amazingly, when the island kicker must still usually at least after the first knockout round to fly back home ...
Misleading: The ticket sales for the Women's World Cup in West Germany (2011) is running much better. Twelve days before the first sales phase, 190,000 tickets have been sold. Brewing as a revolution in world football?
