World Cup Final Ticket Phase To Begin

Football's governing body FIFA will today make available the final batch of World Cup
tickets on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets
will go on sale early today on FIFA's
official web site, Xinhua quoted the the body as
saying. Some 160,000 tickets will be offered for
group and knockout-phase matches. Seven World Cup fixtures have already been sold out:
Brazil-Croatia (Sao Paulo), England-Italy
(Manaus), USA-Portugal (Manaus), the final (Rio
de Janeiro), a semifinal (Belo Horizonte) and two
quarterfinals (Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre).

According to FIFA, 2.3 million tickets have already been allocated for the June 12-July 13
tournament.