{"id":6750,"date":"2010-02-15T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:27:43","slug":"africa-not-supporting-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/world-cup-2010\/africa-not-supporting-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa not supporting World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fewer\u00a0than 2 % of the World Cup tickets have been sold to African countries other than South Africa, reports the Cape Times<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 FIFA’s goal of making the World Cup an “African World Cup” has not been met to date.<\/p>\n

Of the total of 2 million tickets sold to date, only 11 500 have been sold to other African countries.\u00a0\u00a0 This is viewed as a “dismal” performance by Tembi Tichaawa, a researcher at the Walter Sisulu University.\u00a0\u00a0 He blames the complicated FIFA World Cup ticket purchasing procedure for the poor sales. “Technology has failed Africans” he is reported to have said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The highest sales to African countries have been to soccer fans in Mocambique, Botswana and Kenya, at about 1 500 tickets sold in each of these countries.\u00a0\u00a0 Poor internet connections and lack of credit card ownership are said to stand in the way of ticket purchases from Africa, and Ticaawa reacted as follows: “The high technology method of selling tickets needs to be urgently looked at by Fifa.\u00a0 The emphasis should have been on African fans.\u00a0 For us here we go to a ticket box, but that is not the case with the World Cup”.<\/p>\n

South African\u00a0 soccer fans lead ticket sales, at 790 000, followed by the USA (116 765), the United Kingdom (68 213) and Germany (30 974).<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fewer\u00a0than 2 % of the World Cup tickets have been sold to African countries other than South Africa, reports the Cape Times.\u00a0\u00a0 FIFA’s goal of making the World Cup an “African World Cup” has not been met to date. Of the total of 2 million tickets sold to date, only 11 500 have been sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[124,21,11],"tags":[2158,3562,3560,32378,3561,18,560,2164,2159,3559,32389,32388,3564,2732,1120,562,3563,32373,531],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t