<p>FIFA said that it rejected about 50 fake tickets for the opening World Cup match in Sao Paulo between host Brazil and Croatia.<br /><br /></p>.<p>FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil said the tickets for yesterday's game were "an example of real professional fakes, not the poor imitations made in a copying machine." And he's guessing there are more.<br /><br />"Even for us, it's extremely complicated to see if it's a fake ticket or a real ticket," Weil said. "We need to communicate to the fans that there are tickets going around that are fake tickets that are extremely difficult if not impossible to recognise."<br /><br />Weil held up a ticket that looked identical to an authentic ticket. He said it might even include the electronic chip, although a chip that would not work and would be detected when it was scanned entering the stadium.<br /><br />He said some matches might be targeted more than others by counterfeiters, but did not say which matches they might be.<br /><br />"You have no pleasant time when you have a family, father, mother and three kids coming, and you have to reject them. But we have to because they are fakes."<br /><br />He said those detected on yesteday must be the tip of the iceberg.<br /><br />"Based on the quality of how they are done, there must be far more tickets in circulation than only those 50."</p>
<p>FIFA said that it rejected about 50 fake tickets for the opening World Cup match in Sao Paulo between host Brazil and Croatia.<br /><br /></p>.<p>FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil said the tickets for yesterday's game were "an example of real professional fakes, not the poor imitations made in a copying machine." And he's guessing there are more.<br /><br />"Even for us, it's extremely complicated to see if it's a fake ticket or a real ticket," Weil said. "We need to communicate to the fans that there are tickets going around that are fake tickets that are extremely difficult if not impossible to recognise."<br /><br />Weil held up a ticket that looked identical to an authentic ticket. He said it might even include the electronic chip, although a chip that would not work and would be detected when it was scanned entering the stadium.<br /><br />He said some matches might be targeted more than others by counterfeiters, but did not say which matches they might be.<br /><br />"You have no pleasant time when you have a family, father, mother and three kids coming, and you have to reject them. But we have to because they are fakes."<br /><br />He said those detected on yesteday must be the tip of the iceberg.<br /><br />"Based on the quality of how they are done, there must be far more tickets in circulation than only those 50."</p>