FIFA were humiliated last night after the World Cup’s second match between South Korea and Czechia was played in front of swathes of empty seats – despite Gianni Infantino boasting of an ‘unprecedented’ demand for tickets 24 hours earlier.
The row over pricing is proving to be a PR disaster for FIFA on the opening day of the tournament, which was also marred by rioting in Mexico City.
Despite football’s governing body claiming that its ticketing website had received an unprecedented 500 million booking requests – by far the highest in history – the stadium in Guadalajara in the west of Mexico was not full.
The stadium
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