It is official; the 2010 World Cup will be in South Africa is a few days less than 1 year. The biggest sporting event in the world is on its way to SA and President Zuma helped kick off the countdown.
Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town was the venue and all the relevant dignitries were in attendance:
This is a great Zille-Zuma moment after a very aggressive election campaign from both parties. Nice to see the two top politicians in SA doing their professional bit in front of the press.
I managed to secure 4 tickets to a Round 16 game at Ellis Park. Not too shabby I don’t think. To be honest, I just wanted to attend. This could be a once in a lifetime chance to go to the biggest sporting event in the world and not have to mortgage my house for the tickets!
Let me know what games you managed to get tickets for or if you were left empty-handed. A friend of a friend received 4 tickets to the final. I know it’s meant to be completely random allocation but I can’t help feel as if I’ve been hard done by. I want opening ceremony or finals. Come on!
Here’s a great video I found about how to apply for tickets and the different types, chances and dates the application periods will be open.
Here’s an overview of the sales phases:
20 February 2009 – 31 March 2009 Valid applications received for any match, or particular ticket category, that is over-subscribed, will go into a global random draw (this will particularly apply to ‘hot’ matches like the Opening Match, the Semi-Finals and the Final). This ticket draw will take place on 15 April 2009. Confirmation of successful applications will be notified approximately 72 hours after this draw.
4 May 2009 – 16 November 2009 Valid applications will be accepted and fulfilled on a ‘first come, first served’ basis – subject to availability for the match/es and the ticket category/ies applied for. Confirmation of successful applications will be notified within approximately 10 working days.
5 December 2009 – 22 January 2010, immediately after the Final Draw for the 32 participating nations. It is at this stage that the world will know who is playing who, when and where and the pressure for tickets will really intensify. All valid ticket applications received during this time will again go into a global random draw which will take place on 1 February 2010. Confirmation of successful applications will be notified approximately 72 hours after this draw.
9 February 2010 – 1 April 2010 Again, valid applications will be accepted and fulfilled on a ‘first come, first served’ basis – subject to availability for the match/es and the ticket category/ies applied for. Confirmation of successful applications will be notified within approximately 10 working days.
The fifth and final ‘Last Minute’ tickets sales phase will open on 15 April 2010 and remain open until the Final is played on 11 July 2010. Tickets will be purchased ‘real-time’ on a first come first served basis via www.fifa.com and over the counter at to-be-announced locations across South Africa.
A very short post to let you know that tickets for the Football World Cup 2010 will go on sale on 2 Feb 2009. Yes, that is correct, less than a year away so you better start saving.
Apparently the tickets will be affordable to the SA public and Fifa expects that SA citizens will be the majority holders or interested parties in the tickets for the 2010 world cup.
Fifa has not yet decided on ticket prices, but Will stressed that the cheapest seats will be affordable to ordinary South African supporters.
Not a bad start in the Group Of Death (GOD – strange that).
All the teams in the group now sit on a single point and at least we are not bringing up the rear in the group.
I watched majority of the match but just missed the goal. The main problem that I found when watching was not the team, the feeding of the ball in to the goal box, the defense, passing, keeping or basics. Our problem is scoring goals. This might sound fairly obvious but it’s not.
Every great team features a great goal scorer. Maradona, Pele, Cantona and the like. We have or had Benny but he’s not with us anymore. What a pity because it seems to me that we just cannot manage to score when the opportunity arises.
Players scrabble for a shot, rebound or anything we can get our hands on to. If only we could just put it in the back of the net.
A positive start and a start nonetheless. Let’s hope we can build on the performance.
