FIFA officials are not certain how many fans are affected, and blame the demand for tickets to the semifinals and final match for the problems.
Fans who bought tickets to the Women's World Cup in France this summer may not be able to sit together. By Jacob Bogage Jacob Bogage National sports writer and blogger Email Bio Follow May 22 at 6:00 AM Victoria Amira convinced three friends to take what they’re calling the trip of a lifetime by promising that if they attended a match at the FIFA Women’s World Cup next month, she’d drive them to every vineyard in the south of France for the following two weeks.
It’s a problem that’s sparked anger and confusion this week as fans rushed FIFA’s website to check their seats and observers again criticized how world soccer’s governing body treats the women’s side of the sport.“I don’t think this would ever have happened for a men’s World Cup,” said Anelise Cimino, a Division I women’s college soccer referee in New Haven, Conn., whose own World Cup trip has been upended by the ticket fiasco.
The previous tweets regarding FIFA Women’s World Cup tickets allocation were published without a full understanding of the situation and we apologise for that. The issues were faced by less than 1% of fans requesting tickets for the semi finals and the final. “We’ve already sunk so much money into going so far — we paid for our flights and our lodging — at this point, we can’t back out,” Cimino said. “We’re too far in. I hope they figure out something. Honestly, I think it’s going to be mass chaos at the stadium.”
Amira selected the top category, so she and her friends could get an up-close view of their only World Cup match. A nearly lifelong French speaker, she purchased the tickets on her credit card in a single transaction on the French language website. She said she does not recall seeing any message about the seats potentially being in separate locations.
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