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World Cup, South Africa, 2010


We have known that the next Football (Soccer, for my American friends) World Cup will take place over the summer of 2010 in South Africa. This will be the first time a World Cup event is hosted on the continent I was born in (at least in my lifetime)!

Today I was looking around at information on the event, and I found 2 website: The official FIFA one, and the unofficial one. FIFA estimates that the tickets will be as follows (all prices in US$, and table is courtesy of FIFA's ticket info page on World Cup 2010):

Match

Cat. 1

Cat. 2

Cat. 3

Cat. 4

1

450

300

200

70

2 - 48

160

120

80

20

49 - 56

200

150

100

50

57 - 60

300

200

150

75

61 - 62

600

400

250

100

63

300

200

150

75

64

900

600

400

150

So in summary: Yikes. I need a job if I am really going to SA that summer... got ideas? Write to me!

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