The 150,000 undelivered World Cup tickets will be arriving in Japan by Saturday and the handing-out of tickets to purchasers at the venue on match day will hopefully only be limited to the games on June 1, the Japanese World Cup Organizing Committee said Wednesday in Tokyo.
JAWOC received a letter from FIFA on Wednesday evening and learned that the undelivered tickets will be dispatched in three blocks starting Wednesday from England, where the printing is being done by the FIFA ticketing agent.
The Japanese organizers on Tuesday sent a letter to FIFA urging soccer's world governing body to take immediate action and sort out the current problem, after being informed that the 150,000 tickets, initially scheduled to arrive in Japan on Wednesday, wouldn't make it. The 150,000 non-arrivals include 140,000 tickets sold in the third round of sales, 3,000 tickets for wheelchair users and around 20,000 tickets for the games on June 1-3.