D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on FIFA announcing a new ticketing tier for the upcoming World Cup

FIFA has introduced a new ticketing tier for next year's World Cup, following an uproar over the prices to attend games.

The sport's governing body has announced a new 'supporter entry tier' in response to criticism of the highest prices in World Cup history that were labelled extortionate.

Prices have increased several-fold from Qatar, with the cheapest ticket for most pool games costing several hundred New Zealand dollars with the most expensive in the thousands.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here. Hey Darcy, you've got some sports news. Good
after baboon and I've got some sports news for you today.
Oh really, should we do a trade? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I like it? You start?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Okay, all right? You know that at the FIFA thing,
the price.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Fef thing, well, the biggest sporting organization in the world,
that thing.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
The prices that that no wonder, they're so big. You've
seen what they're charged, charging like wounded bulls. But what
they've done because the PR disaster, which you'll know about
because you're in you know, you're in the sport world.
They've come out with sixty dollars tickets really how many?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Four?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well? Good christ, so one point six percent of all
available tickets will be six capped at sixty dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
And now they would have sold yesterday. Well so this
is it's really winning a PR battle.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
But this is what I wanted to ask you about,
because they allocating them to each team, so each team
will get a certain number. But then who do they
how do they sell tickets to the FIFA World Cup?
You know, like, well, will our team be set? Doesn't?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I had to say it, Ran, You're telling the story,
not me, So ask yourself for questions and if you
can't answer them, we'll consider itself a successful interview.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Don't ask them all right, Well, we might come back
to that later on. Nowsh's Test to three is underway.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, Australia chose to bet they won the toss. A
small problem with Steve Smith. He's got vertigo. Have you
had vertigo before? No?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I haven't had it, horrid.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I've experienced the joy of vertigo. So he can't play.
So he's not playing. So it was my Kwaja wasn't
going to be playing, So he's been a last minute
ringing I suppose for Steve Smith. Now the Aussies are
currently sitting at one hundred and forty nine for four,
so the lost of quick wickets, our head's gone opening
whether all's gone opening a lablu? Shane gone as well?

(01:47):
At Green who just sold for the most expensive price
for a foreign player in the IPL. So he's celebrating
his riches and he got out for a duck. I'm
not laughing. But who's at the crease having the time
of their life? Carry who's are great players? On thirty four?
Was man Kwaja he's on sixty one. He was out
for all money Smith got ill he come roping in.

(02:10):
He's ain't finding it nothing to lose. He smashed himself
a half century a winning so he's still out there
right now here. Sixty one carriers on thirty four. You
even know this test might last more than a couple
of days.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well that had been fans, wouldn't it? Now? On the
show tonight, The pacifica franchise wanting to break into the NRL.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, it's another one. There are so many. But as
opposed from the Orca and Wellington and the Kier and
all the other ideas that have come from down there,
this one is purely based in Auckland and we're going
to talk to Jeff Brown about that tonight. He's the
bid lead. It's very embryonic at the stage, but he
talks a big game, talks about how important it would

(02:49):
be to have a Pacific at rugby league team, not
the rugby union team. The big question is is can
two rugby league teams survive up here in the NRL
along with two rugby union teams along with a football
team and where they play? Because he's not enough Stadia
up here. But look, where there's a will, there's a
way or as some people say, there's a will, there's

(03:11):
a wake, which is little tasteless, but it's quite a
good saying it might happen. We go man. And also
I went out tonight to this morning to the opening
of the Sir Colin Giltrap Raceway, and I sat around
with Scott Dixon, had a good yarn with him about life,
universe and everything. And that'll be playing tonight on the
show as well. Seven o'clock are zach folks as well?
We're talking cricket mate.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
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