World Cup tickets: Huge demand and sky-high prices

AFP Sport assesses the cost of attending games at the tournament: How many tickets, how much demand? According to world football's governing body FIFA, almost seven million tickets have been made available in total. Each person can buy a maximum of four tickets per match and a total of 40 for the whole competition. Around two million tickets were sold during an initial lottery in October. A second sales phase in December and January was also a lottery and attracted a record 508 million requests, according to FIFA.