WM: As soon as interest in German Games

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        What's the matter with the German football fans? The interest in the three preliminary rounds of the German national football team at the World Championships next year in South Africa leaves much to be desired.
"The demand is very weak," commented the Secretary General of the German Football Federation (DFB), Wolfgang Niersbach, sports image the previous ticket sales.
Niersbach suspected that the large distance and high travel costs could deter many fans. Since last Sunday, the tickets for the games against Australia (June 13), Serbia (to 18 June) and Ghana (June 23, will be ordered) on the homepage of the World Association FIFA.
FIFA has blocked a rate of twelve percent of the tickets offered for sale for each of the 32 participants. This means that in Durban in 8400, in Port Elizabeth in 5500 and Johannesburg, 11,400 tickets for the German fans are available.
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Located on the Indian Ocean city has the largest port on the continent and to Johannesburg and Cape Town is the third largest conurbation in the country. The subtropical climate made after the former Governor, Sir Benjamin Durban City named one of the most popular seaside resorts of South Africans. It is located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, from which the Zulu-nation of President Jacob Zuma. A large part of Durban's 3.4 million residents are of Asian descent - mostly descendants of Indian workers who once worked on the sugar plantations of KwaZulu-Natal. Mahatma Gandhi lived and worked here and worked out his policy of nonviolent resistance. Located on the east coast city has at the time the World Cup - South-winter - the most pleasant climate.
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With 1.1 million inhabitants is the economic hub of the port city of poor, rural Eastern Cape province, the South African Nobel Peace Laureate, anti-apartheid fighter and the first black president Nelson Mandela is. The Volkswagen Group cars manufactured here for export and the South African market. The climate in the predominantly inhabited by the Xhosa people in the province is regarded as the southern hemisphere winter, but pleasant, long beach sections are high because of high waves, especially with surfers in the course. Even golfers and nature lovers appreciate the region from which is also the head of the National Organizing Committee (NOC), Danny Jordaan.
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium (new construction: 46,000) - Eight games: Five preliminary round, first knockout round, quarter finals, Third place 3 - Germany 2 Game: 18 June, 13.30 clock against Serbia
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The bustling metropolis to 1785 meters high, is South Africa's financial and commercial center, with about twelve percent of gross domestic product is generated. The city founded in 1886 by gold miners are now living more than 3.2 million people. During the apartheid was the city with the Soweto Township, a center of resistance against the regime. The northern suburb of Sandton, with stock exchange and bank buildings is considered the richest city across Africa. Also culturally valid Johannesburg or Egoli ( "The City of Gold") as the center of the country.
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