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Final stop for
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Another 164 000 tickets for the soccer World Cup will go on sale on Friday, FIFA has announced.
Speaking at the ceremonial handover of Cape Town Stadium, FIFA
general secretary Jerome Valcke said
the tickets were spread across all 64
games.
He said this was the final tranche
of tickets originally reserved for FIFA,
that were being put back into the
system.
“Because we have a lot of buffers.
Myself, I have thousands of tickets to
accommodate a number of requests,”
he said.
“We will put back these tickets
into the public system. It will be the
final time that we are making such
announcement.
“It’s a quite large number of tickets from game one to 64.”
They varied from 200 tickets for
the South Africa-France game in
Bloemfontein to 2 000 tickets for the
semi-finals.
“It becomes available on Friday
morning, all the tickets... and then
it’s over.”
A FIFA official said sales of these
tickets would bring the total sold to
98% of the 2.88 million originally
available.
The official said the new tickets
would be available through all the
usual outlets in South Africa, and
through FIFA’s website.
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Bryan Habana in full flight
- Tuesday, May 25, 2010
V
odacom Stormers coach Allister Coetzee says having
former Bulls wing Bryan
Habana in his side for Saturday’s Super 14 final against the Bulls
is helpful, but they still have to go do
the job at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg.
Habana is a former championship
winner with the Bulls and is the only
Stormer with Super 14 final experience. The Stormers would thus heavily lean on him to help them with
their preparations for the big showdown with the Bulls.
But Coetzee doesn’t expect Habana’s previous final experience to
make a huge difference to the outcome of the game though. “He’s
been giving a lot of insight into a
few things.
“But at the end of the day you
have to go out there and play. We
know what’s coming our way and
we’re going to prepare well.”
The Bulls on Tuesday announced
their side, with the return of promising wing Gerhard van den Heever in
place of Jaco van der Westhuyzen
the only change to the team that
trounced the Crusaders in the semifinal.
“Gerhard has played very well
for them. He’s a quality winger and
we’re looking forward to playing the
strongest possible Bulls side. I said it
to the players as well... if you want
to be champs you have to go beat
the Bulls and then you’re worth your
salt,” commented the coach.
Coetzee, a former Eastern Province scrumhalf, expects an epic clash
in Johannesburg. “The Bulls away, up
in Joburg is going to be one helluva
clash. The job is 50 percent done.
“I mentioned last week this is a
once in a lifetime opportunity and
we should take the last chance to
win a Super 14 because it changes
next year.”
Coetzee says it was important for
the side to forget about the sideshows and hype and concentrate on
the job at hand.
“I think one should really look at
the bigger picture. Although it’s a
Super 14 final and it’s between SA
teams, whatever comes with that, we
have to embrace that.
“We have a saying of blocking out
external factors like that, and goalkickers know the pressures that come
with the job and they need to block
that out. They have shown in the
past that they should just be focused
on getting the ball over.”
The coach said the Stormers will
be doing their captain’s run at home
and on Friday will visit the stadium
to have a look at the field.
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Non-ticket holders can still get to see the likes of Cristiano
Ronaldo in Cape Town
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