Columbia and
Chile do battle over the weekend in what is, for Columbia at least, a win or die match in their bid to travel to South Africa next summer. So important, in fact, that the Columbian FA were confident of selling out the
Atansio Giradot stadium in Medelin. Capacity between 40661 and 53000 depending on your source.
Imagine their disappointment then when, as of Wednesday, they had sold the princely number of 134 tickets. That's one hundred. And thirty four.
"The
sale of tickets has been extremely slow but we are hopeful that it will
improve, there are only four days left until the encounter" said Alicia
Torres, the leading press officer of the company in charge of
distributing the tickets.
Trying to drum up enthusiasm, the home team coach, Eduardo Lara, made Tuesday's training session open to all, but unlike Manchester City, it wasn't a huge success. Fewer than 100 people turned up.
Colombia will need to claim the three points against Chile if they
want to keep alive their chances of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup
in South Africa.
