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A name on every French World Cup ticket Published:January 15th, 1998
The French purchaser of a ticket for the World Cup Finals will have their name on the face of the ticket and will only receive their ticket three weeks before the Finals are due to start on June 10th. French citizens have been able to purchase 60% of match tickets if they could provide a French address and the extra identity mark on the ticket is to prevent them from sale on the burgeoning black market. Any person who cannot prove they are the individual named on the ticket will be refused entry to the Stadiums and will not see the match they have paid to see. There is the prospect of some very sparsely attended matches if those who have bought tickets to sell on the black market do not attend the game themselves. Nigeria, for example, have not asked for more than 2,000 tickets for each of their three Group matches. Two of these games are against Paraguay and Bulgaria who do not have large travelling support themselves and the grounds will not be full for these matches even if organisers claim every ticket has been sold. Every ticket was sold in England for Euro 96 but there were always spaces in the grounds if the teams involved did not have a large travelling support themselves. Someone wanting to see a game and willing to buy a ticket from a French citizen who is uninterested
in the fixture they have a ticket to see will now be refused admission
according to organisers.
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