FIFA World Cup 2010

Hello everyone,

Today is now the third day that I have ridden this tidal wave of excitement that is FIFA World Cup 2010 mania. I hope you will join me in my anticipatory bliss. Important: TICKET SALES ALREADY BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 20 (FRIDAY). This means we need to get ourselves in gear and hesitate no more; we compete against all the others in this world who have money, an interest in soccer competition at the international level, and the means to obtain the same tickets for which we vie. Needless to say, that is pretty much everyone.

This post intends to address three things:

*Inspire jubilant anticipation about attending the upcoming World Cup finals in South AfriKa

*Inform those interested about my managerial interests in ticket purchase/orchestrating as large a group as possible to aforementioned soccer games

*Offer ways that you can lose yourself in this Tazmanian devilish whirlwind of foot sports

From the news source DW-World.DE Deutsche Welle: your link to Germany, here are a few things you should know.

"...ticket prices range from $80 (64 euros) for group stages to a princely $900 (715 euros) for the final..." The tournament "runs from June 11 to July 11 next year..." Brown Bear will be particularly excited to learn that these World Cup games will be the first finals held in the Afrikan Kontinent. Most importantly, "one person is allowed to apply for only four tickets per game for a maximum of seven matches. A ticket applicant may not apply for two matches on the same day. Tickets go on sale through FIFA's website www.fifa.org starting Friday at 1100 GMT." [6 A.M. Friday morning for those of you in the US eastern timezone]

I plan to personally apply for two different days. On each of these days, I will apply for four tickets. My hope is that I will get the four tickets for one of these games. If you are interested in joining me on one of these dates OR getting an additional game's group's tickets, perhaps we can communicate via this blog to orchestrate additional attempts at acquisition. Once I have chosen my games/dates and applied for them, I will post that information here. I am so pumped. I have already dropped this bomb of excitement on Big Truck Driva and G-Off. I couldn't contain myself.

For the news article I quoted above, go to the full news brief.

For the super zealous, go here to try to get some of your own tickets.