Hundreds of football fans visited the 2018 World Cup ticket office in Moscow when direct sales launched on Tuesday.
About 400 people lined
up to enter the ticket office before it opened at 2 p.m. local time, TASS news
agency reported.
About half had arrived before 9 a.m. to reserve a place in line.Tickets were
previously only available via the FIFA website, with almost 2 million tickets
having been purchased though this channel. Although ticket offices opened in
Russia’s 11 host cities on April 18, they were only able to print tickets that
had been already purchased online.While many fans walked away having
successfully purchased tickets, there were also complaints about the limited
availability. As of Tuesday morning, the only tickets available were the most expensive —
Category 1 — for matches in Volgograd and the match between Panama and Tunisia
in Saransk.
