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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