Written by Brenda van de Wal    Tuesday, 19 January 2010 14:49   
Football World Cup Threatened - Tickets Too Expensive - Concerns About Safety

altTicket sales for the Football World Cup to be held this year in South Africa are not going as smooth as past years. Franz Beckenbauer, a member of the Executive Committee of the international governing body of association football ‘FIFA’, blames it on the serious safety issues and the exorbitant prices for the World Cup Tickets in South Africa 201.

"Not only do people doubt going there because of security concerns. Also the tickets are way too expensive. As a normal human being: Who can afford 5000 euros or 6000 euros for a week?" Said Beckenbauer in the show "Sky90".

For the three World Cup qualifying matches of the German team against Australia, Ghana and Serbia 6700 of the 21,000 available tickets have been sold so far and internationally there are 25,000 tickets sold to German fans. However, even in South Africa there’s no run on the tickets.

Now, in Africa there are even more tickets sold for games in England then for their own World Cup.

CEO of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Danny Jordaan has already held talks with the FIFA to enable to sell the tickets in Africa in other ways than through the Internet or through the banks which is the normal way and how it was done in Africa. Jordaan wants the World Cup tickets now spread to several shops, so that South Africans have an easier access to the tickets

"There is no 100-percent guarantee in any country"

Beckenbauer, meanwhile, expressed his understanding for the German fans not wanting to travel to South Africa for the World Cup because of safety issues.

"Those responsible will do everything to ensure safety. They are more or less preparing themselves for an attack. More can not be done. But: There are still a lot of lunatics in the world, so you can not be sure. There’s no 100-percent guarantee in any country," Beckenbauer said.


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