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FRANKFURT - THE German Football Federation (DFB) will put 14,400 tickets for Germany's first round matches at this summer's Euro 2008 on sale from Tuesday.
Tickets for the June 7-29 tournament will be sold on the DFB website www.dfb.de from Tuesday at 10am (5pm Singapore time) to midnight on Feb 12.
The DFB said they were putting 70 per cent of their allocation on sale to the public with the remainder divided between federation chiefs, clubs, sponsors and the players.
Some 5,722 tickets are available for 45 euros (S$95) for the matches against Poland and Croatia on June 8 and June 12 at Klagenfurt, and 10,321 for the clash against Austria in Vienna on June 16.
But the limited capacity of stadia hosting Germany's games has been criticised in the press.
The daily Bild complained in their editoral Sunday: '99 per cent of German supporters who will apply to buy a ticket will go away empty handed to the delight of the black market where tickets at 850 euros are already available. And that leads to the question: football is it now just for the rich?' -- AFP
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