{"id":24882,"date":"2026-01-15T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:38:10","slug":"fifa-world-cup-tickets-for-south-africa-match-among-most-sought-after-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24882\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Tickets for South Africa match among most sought after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">During the random selection draw phase, which began on December 11, people could apply for tickets using their credit card. Every person who applied will be put into a pool from which every applicant has an equal chance of being drawn to earn the chance to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Those who are unsuccessful will have the opportunity to secure their seats during the subsequent sales phases as additional tickets are made available.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the first draw via email no earlier than February 5, according to FIFA&#8217;s news release.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The countries with the most applicants were the host nations &#8211; the United States, Mexico and Canada &#8211; with Germany, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia among the nations outside North America with the most hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;Half a billion ticket requests in just over a month is more than demand &#8211; it&#8217;s a global statement,&#8221; FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in the statement. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;On behalf of FIFA, I would like to thank and congratulate football fans everywhere for this extraordinary response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the random selection draw phase, which began on December 11, people could apply for tickets using their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[131],"class_list":{"0":"post-24882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}