FIFA on Monday released thousands of tickets to this summer’s Women’s World Cup to the fans who ordered them online. Some spouses were not placed next to their partners. Parents discovered they would be multiple rows away from their young children. Friends and families who ordered tickets in groups downloaded them to find that they would be scattered in different rows, or even in different sections. And as the complaints mounted, FIFA initially said there was little it could do about them.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2019 00:03 UTC