Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Getting a ticket to 'The Other Football'


The Wall Street Journal has a story today on the World Cup and traveling to Germany. Good luck getting a ticket. It doesn’t go into detail too much on the U.S. Soccer ticket fiasco.

The 'Other Football' Draws Record Flock of U.S. Fans

Americans Snap Up Tickets To World Cup Soccer Matches;
$350 for Ukraine vs. Tunisia

Fans will find it harder to get scalped tickets at the stadiums this year. That is because the organizing committee says it will be tagging the tickets with RFID cards. The tickets will be stamped with the buyer's name and fans may be required to show their passports at the gate. (Organizers say the major concern isn't terrorism but "hooliganism," the rowdiness that plagues major soccer matches.)

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