European Sports News
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hours after the Final Draw for the 2010 World Cup™ was broadcast
to a global television audience of 200 million people, and the 32 teams
were placed into their groups, tickets for the third phase of sales
were released. Fans from around the world are already snapping up
tickets, with close to 400,000 ticket applications processed through
FIFA.com since midnight on 4 December 2009.
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|  The second stage for the next European Football Championship opened
in Kharkiv on Saturday, December 5th. The key investor in the Metalist
Stadium, Oleksandr Yaroslavskiy, who is chairman of FC Metalist,
owner of the DCH Group and coordinator of preparations for Kharkiv
Euro-2012, spoke at the opening ceremony to the delight of many
Football fans in Ukraine and abroad. Ukraine and Poland
are celebrating the championships, and have the two states required
for the games in 2012... both in Ukraine.
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| Sony Corporation and FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) today announced an agreement for selected media rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup(TM) in 3D. FIFA is to produce the world's first FIFA World Cup(TM) in 3D. Up to 25 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa(TM) matches will be produced using Sony's 3D professional cameras, which will provide coverage of the action that is unprecedented in depth, vividness and excitement to people around the world.
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South African soccer and tourism officials
are giving stern warning to hotels, airlines and restaurants not to hike prices during
next year’s World Cup. Tourism official Calvyn Gilfellan said Thursday, in a press release, that he worries that
viewing the month long event as a cash cow will harm South Africa’s
burgeoning tourism industry.
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| A mad, global rush is expected for 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets on December 5th, 2009, just the day after the tournament’s Final Draw, when the third ticketing sales phase begins.
“It’s traditionally by far the most important sales phase, as the world’s football fans will by then know who will be playing whom in the group matches,” said Horst R. Schmidt, chairman of the Ticketing Sub-Committee, ahead of the start of the next sales phase, in a recent press release.
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