Fri Apr 16, 7:04 pm ET
JOHANNESBURG – Some 130,000 World Cup tickets have been sold in the first 36 hours of the final phase, and the semifinals and final are sold out.
FIFA announced Friday that 29 of the 64 matches are sold out. That includes all games in the coastal cities of Cape Town and Durban.
“We are very pleased with the interest and with the latest figures,” FIFA ticketing subcommittee chairman Horst Schmidt said.
The opening game is also sold out between host South Africa andMexico at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium on June 11.
