Fifa admit World Cup sales in Africa 'poor'

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 20 May 2010

[Travis McGee]

Gee, who wouldn’t want to be carjacked, kidnapped, raped, hacked with machetes and set on fire?

[Frantzie]

Who in their right mind would go to South Africa?

[Non-Sequitur]

...with the cheapest costing $80 (£54).

Or about 600 trillion in Zimbabwe dollars.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Maybe the stadium will have a necklace night for the first 2000 attendees.

[wildehunt]

or 2 fine goats and a basket of milo.

[dead]

Jerome Valcke said only 40,000 tickets have been sold in countries in the continent outside of South Africa... "It's really not a lot of tickets."

All the tickets sold in Africa for this entire tournament would half fill Giants Stadium.

[Red Badger]

You are baaaaaad.........................

[SevenofNine]

ESPN news has special about so called corrective rapes that South African men impose on Lesbians do you know only 1% of cases go to trial
I was going WHOA
Yeah even ESPN News asking WTF World cup people think having the games in backward country like South Africa

They actually ask that question LOL!

[Hayzo]

“Or about 600 trillion in Zimbabwe dollars.”

What do you mean? I’m sure there are plenty of white farm owners that can afford to...nevermind!

[SevenofNine]

You are bad

That what ESPN News has story on that LOL!

BOY Freepers are cold this afternoon LOL!

[dead]

Why should Africans pay money to attend a soccer riot? They have riots everywhere all the time for nothing.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

and that’s just the Olympic games!

[Bon mots]

The most shocking thing is that these idiots are actually surprised.

[SevenofNine]

I got question are they going allow Brit soccer fans into the country

[Hayzo]

I think people are more fearful of being eaten by the prawns in District 9.

[MinorityRepublican]

[CholeraJoe]

Gee, who wouldn’t want to be carjacked, kidnapped, raped, hacked with machetes and set on fire?

You forgot infected with HIV, TB, malaria, Ebola, Sleeping Sickness, Blood flukes, river blindness, elephantiasis, and kala-azar.

[Ready4Freddy]

He said that there were also difficulties in air travel from one African country to South Africa.

One African country in particular or other African countries in general?

Here are the African qualifiers, none of which would be considered even vaguely financially robust:

Algeria
Cameroon
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Nigeria

One muslim hellhole and 3 from the old slave coast.

[cowtowney]

the story is that very few tickets have been sold within Africa; not that very few tickets have sold.

They’ve sold 2.5 mm of the 3 mm available.