Tickets have been really hard to come by during the first week of the tournament. You can tell that futile applications to FIFA and long fruitless hours spent on the Internet have deflated the locals into believing they just can't get into a game. Whereas tickets were always available in Portugal and organizers were literally handing extra tickets out to children at the stadium in Korea, I've been surprised to have seen virtually no tickets for sale at the four matches I've already attended.
However, from my view baking in the sauna of this shuttle bus outside Dortmund's train station, I'm shocked to see plenty of scalpers out with tickets for a match I figured would be impossible to find a ticket. If the tickets are legit, it looks like 300 euros will get you into a match for which you couldn't even find tickets on EBay.
Some reports had 200,000 Polish fans in Germany. There's a lot here, but it seems like that loss to Ecuador has taken the steam out of Polska. The power of hitting a post or two. The Americans understand it as well.
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