More than two million tickets have been sold for the Rugby World Cup, which kicks off on September 7, the organising committee of rugby’s showpiece four-yearly event said on Wednesday.
“We have sold 2,05-million tickets and it’s not finished since we’re still shifting about 1Â 500 a day, and the tickets returned to us are regularly put on sale,” said committee head Bernard Lapasset, adding that the goal of selling 85% of the tickets had been fulfilled.
“We’re encountering some difficulties in Edinburgh for the Scotland vs Romania match, and in Cardiff for Wales vs Japan and Fiji vs Canada, for which 20Â 000 tickets have been sold with one month to go before the game,” Lapasset said.
“I have no regrets about signing the agreement in 1999 with the Welsh to give them some matches,” added Lapasset, the president of the French Rugby Federation.
“But in the future I think that the organisation of a World Cup should be done in one country so the same approach is applied everywhere.” — AFP