Only 134 Tickets Sold For Decisive World Cup Qualifier Between Colombia & Chile

The fact that Colombia will be playing for their lives when they face Chile in a crucial World Cup qualifier on Saturday hasn't helped ticket sales.

With the importance of the match, the Colombian Football Association expected to sell all 40,661 tickets available for the match at the Atanasio Giradot stadium in Medellin. However, only a mere 134 tickets have been sold up until now.

"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," Alicia Torres, the leading press officer of the company in charge of distributing the tickets, told AP.

 
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