European Sports News
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|  Ticket 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".
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|  Manchester City the biggest annual loss ever reported by an English
football club, recording a loss of 92.6 million pounds - to
May 31 2009
The figure, recently announced on the club's website (www.mcfc.co.uk)
does not include last summer's 117 million pounds
spending spree on Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, Carlos Tevez, Roque
Santa Cruz and Joleon Lescott.
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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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