World Cup 2010: Ticket Applications Hit the 500,000 Mark

As you can all imagine, tickets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup are selling really fast. In fact, on Monday FIFA revealed that the first ten days of the third ticketing sales phase, has seen the number of tickets applied for hit the 500,000 mark.

According to reports at soccernet.espn.go.com, football’s governing body has revealed that 386,300 of those tickets were requested by South African residents, while the other 114,237 tickets applied for came from the rest of the world.

In a recent statement from Horst Schmidt, who is chairman of the FIFA ticketing sub-committee, he said that the latest ticket applications figures are impressive when they are compared to the previous editions of the FIFA World Cups.