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PARIS - More than two million tickets have been sold for the rugby union World Cup which kicks off on September 7, the organising committee of rugby's showpiece four-yearly event said.
"We have sold around 2.05 million tickets and it's not finished since we're still shifting some 1500 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 per cent of the tickets had been fulfilled.
"We're encountering some difficulties in Edinburgh for the Scotland v Romania match, and in Cardiff for Wales v Japan and Fiji v Canada, for which 20,000 tickets have been sold with one month to go before the game," Lapasset said.
"I regret not having signed an agreement in 1999 with the Welsh so they could hand back some matches to us," said Lapasset, the president of the French Rugby Federation.
"I think that the organisation of a World Cup in the future must stay in one country so the same approach is applied everywhere."
- AFP
