FIFA says 53,000 World Cup tickets were sold in the first eight hours of the final phase, and blamed “high demand” for the technical problems that caused delays. FIFA said 23 of the 64 World Cup games are sold out after match tickets went on sale Thursday at ticket centers and banks across South Africa. Match, the company employed by FIFA to run the ticket process, apologized for the glitches which led police to be called to ticket centers in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria to calm frustrated fans. A 64-year-old man suffered an apparent seizure as he waited in a queue in Cape Town, police said.