FIFA invites New Zealand viewers to fill the stadiums
Record tickets but sales concerns in New Zealand: 1.375 million tickets sold Women’s World CupThe Oceania-based organization welcomed the FIFA president on Wednesday, while he implored the New Zealanders to “seize the moment”. “It’s not too late, we need you, come and see the matches,” yelled in Auckland’s Gianni Infantino to New Zealand reporters, during the World Cup launch press conference (July 20-August 20).
“We still have tickets available for most matches, but don’t wait until the last minute,” said Fatma Samoura, FIFA’s general secretary. The kick-off of the World Cup will take place on Thursday with New Zealand v Norway in Auckland, the same day Australia will play Ireland in Sydney in front of huge crowds, in front of 80,000 spectators.
“A moment to seize for football fans”
By contrast, Mr. Ferns’ opener against Norway at Auckland’s Eden Park is yet to run out. Tickets were still available Wednesday for this match. New Zealand will host 29 matches in total, including all of the two-time champions USA’s pool matches. But in recent days, Jane Patterson, the head of World Cup operations in New Zealand, said the total number of tickets sold for matches in the country was just over 320,000, less than a quarter of the total announced by FIFA on Wednesday.
Fatima Samoura commented: “We know that New Zealanders are late ticket buyers.” “The only message I want to send here is to seize the moment and be proud of what I’ve been able to achieve here in New Zealand and Australia,” Infantino told reporters. Fatma Samoura continued, “It is a must-capture moment for all New Zealand football fans. It is indeed the most watched women’s sporting event.”
“They’ll see, it’s great.”
“But I want to tell the New Zealand fans that the spectacle they are going to see, not just their national team, is going to be unique. When they go to see a game for the first time, they are going to see it’s amazing,” Gianni Infantino also said. “This is an opportunity for this country not only to be a rugby country, but to awaken its love for football,” New Zealand coach Jitka of the Czech Republic said in a pre-match press conference against Norway.
For her part, Captain Ali Riley stressed that the World Cup is “an opportunity for sports culture to inspire youth.” For her press conference opening the Women’s World Cup, the FIFA captain was calculated more than eight months earlier in The State of Qatar In December for the men’s event. “I feel today that I am Qatari, Arab, African, gay, gay, disabled and a migrant worker,” he said in Doha in a highly commented speech. In Auckland, he said simply: “I’m tired because I just landed, but I’m so happy.”
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