英格蘭是巴拉圭在本屆世界盃的第一個對手，他們的比賽將在週六進行。巴拉圭足協被指責將本場比賽幾乎一半的球票賣給了票販子。巴拉圭足協共從這場比賽中分得3300張球票，也就是説至少1500球票已經通過票販子賣給了球迷，而球票的單價也已經飆升到645英鎊（1200美圓）。據稱這些球票很有可能通過英國和歐洲的黑市流通。

　　鏈結：http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblwc2006pareng&prov=afp&type=lgns

　　原文：

　　Paraguay accused of selling tickets for England game to touts

　　AFP

　　June 4, 2006

　　LONDON (AFP) - Paraguay, England's first opponents in the World Cup, have been accused of selling nearly half of their tickets for Saturday's match to touts who are charging fans up to 645 pounds (1,200 dollars) a seat.

　　At least 1,500 of the Paraguayan FA's allocation of 3,300 tickets for the Group B opener have disappeared amid claims that they have been passed on to black-market ticket agencies in Britain and Europe.

　　Four travel companies in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion were chosen to sell most of the tickets.

　　But one of the firms Siboney said that while they had received between 200 and 300 tickets for Paraguay's other games, against Sweden and Trinidad et Tobago, it got just 40 for Saturday's fixture in Frankfurt.

　　"Someone obviously decided that doing something would be good for him without taking anyone else into account," Luis Ullon, Siboney's sales manager, told the Observer on Sunday.

　　Ester Mendoza, sales manager at Amitour, another of the Asuncion firms, said the Paraguayan FA had offered no explanation for the shortfall of tickets.

　　"They just told us they were sold out. We have no way of knowing what really happened, but it's strange that with the other two we got all the tickets we wanted but not with the England game."

　　Noone from the Paraguayan FA was available for comment.

　　Updated on Sunday, Jun 4, 2006 6:20 am EDT

　　作者 二外英語系，李雪

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