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Large demand from around Europe as the third sales period gets underway

Within twelve hours of the third sales period opening at midday on 12 December, the Organising Committee had registered 150,000 orders for over a million tickets for the 2006 FIFA World Cup... 

www.fifa.com

[dcs]

That England game could end up with only a real small T&T contingent even though we have real people who want to go.

Thats messed up.

[E-man]

Yeah, by (un)luck of the draw the England game is in one of the smaller stadiums. about 32,000 in Nürnberg, Dortmund has 50,000 and Kaiserslautern has 37,000.

I tell yuh when we had it in the us in '94 we had bigger venues and it was one of the highest attended cups of all time. As much as "soccer" not a big sport in the US can't talk about attedance numbers there.