I picked up the article below on the IOL website and thought it would stir an interesting debate seeing as we'd been asking about ticket sales:
South African fans were told by world controlling body Fifa and the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) to get their act together and support both the Confederation Cup and the 2010 World Cup finals.
What is worrying Fifa and the LOC is the fact that only 170 000 tickets out of 640 000 have been sold for the Confederation Cup which kicks off in 102 days on June 14 when Bafana Bafana play Asian champions Iraq in the opening Group A match at Ellis Park.
Read the complete article here: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=4&art_id=nw20090303193809327C739433
Now my question is this - has it occurred to SAFA that we're in the middle of a financial crisis? For many of us, watching the football live is a treat - if we're hosting this at a time when people are battling to make ends meet, things are not quite that easy...
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Marc
I agree these plonkers expect us to buy tickets as if we were doing our monthly grocery shopping at Checkers. I'm on honeymoon in CT and the amount of jobless people roaming the streets makes me ill.
I walk the streets of London and I can't compare the two. Over there they have a basic wage of 5 pounds per hour! You do the math...pay our people the same and just maybe we can afford a ticket, but that only after we feed our kids and family, who are the ones building the stadiums and without them, no Confed Cup or WC.
SA Football needs a kick up the ass!
Sorry for the rant, but they are all facts, just like Rafa's. LOL
Yours in footie
Craig
The Real Footie Analyst
I agree 100%.... I think the ticket price is issue is going to be a helluva hot topic in the next few months - we've brought the world cup to Africa but the people cant afford to watch it
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