The point is your saying attendances are poor while I disagree and the official figures back me up on this. Sure empty seats aren't great but I disagree that having empty seats mean its poor attendance. .
Did I ever say that? I said that the organisers have failed into managing to have sold out games in most occasions. Don't know how many people attended Greece-Nigeria, but it seemed that 1/3 of the stadium was empty!
Also for the record match tickets are cheaper than they were for germany 2006 and has been from the start. .
Well, again, blame the organisers of South Africa WC for this. In South Africa they built huge stadiums and the pricing was excessive. The larger the stadium, the cheaper the price of course. The bigger the stadium, the higher the possibility is that the view from the stands is worse, hence lower prices. The prices should have been MUCH LOWER, since a large target group was the local/regional population who suffers financially(and not only)
First of all, South Africa is not a great destination but it's something that people would want to visit, you know that first hand. I have relatives in Johanesburg who got burglars while they were upstairs. The organisation didn't consider the fact that people would not want to pay a sh*tload to go to a distanced place were there's danger of being harassed or have money stolen. Even players got stolen so far!
It seems that the organising committee thought it would all run smoothly just because it's a World Cup. I know 15 people(and add another one who is myself) who changed their minds on going to the World Cup because of the high pricing(of everything). We wanted to go to Johanesburg in order to attend two round 16 games, 2 QF and 1 SF(in Cape Town). Match tickets alone would cost slightly more than 1200.
Sure it might look better for some if there is smaller stadiums and all games are sold out but these stadiums weren't build just so it could look good when the smaller nations played. They were build for this tournament's big games and sporting events to come after the wc.
So you can't fill a World Cup game and you'll use the stadiums for something else?
The Greek told us the same thing about their Olympics 2004 stadiums, and now they have a useless baseball ground, and many other stadiums that have no use but just cause expenses. It seems that three stadiums are enough to host concerts and other events.
So you built 10 stadiums to host 8 games, 3 of which going to be played in the same ground, and don't care about the other games? That mentality suits what my eyes are watching.
I haven't seen any big tournament having so many empty seats in "vital" positions ie, middle of the stadium in front of the cameras, where the 2nd most expensive tickets are usually. 2nd best seats.
You can't argue with what you yourself is watching.
Tell me how many big games EACH of these stadiums will host, I'm curious. Big games are attracted by foreigners. The hosts are supposed to fill the stadiums. And so far, the South Africans have been bad hosts. That includes the vuvuzelas and the complaints people and players have.
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I really didn't see this 1/4 empty, there were a few places with emtpy seats but not as much as you claim.
