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SAO PAULO  It was a frenzied start to FIFA's attempt to 
fill the stands for next year's World Cup in Brazil as fans 
applied Tuesday for more than 1 million tickets in just seven hours.But 
it will be some time before they know whether they'll be among 
those lucky enough to get seats to football's signature quadrennial event. 
Officials say applicants won't hear back until October, after FIFA holds 
a random selection draw on all the requests.More than 163,000 people requested 
the tickets online for the 64 World Cup matches being held in 
Brazil.The website of football's governing body FIFA showed that there were 
more ticket applications than the number of seats available in all four 
price categories for the opener in Sao Paulo and the final at 
Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium.Demand was also high in all price categories 
for the semifinals, and 39 of the 64 matches had too many 
requests at least for the cheaper category, available only for Brazilians.FIFA 
said the highest amount of applications so far has come from Brazil, 
Argentina, the U.S., Chile and England."The respective ticket product is 
already heavily oversubscribed and therefore, at that point in time, the 
success of the application appears very unlikely," FIFA said of the high 
demand categories. "There are vastly more ticket applicants seeking tickets 
than there are tickets presently available for the general public."Prices 
for the final will go from $440-$990, although Brazilian
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port on Sunday. He said the Coast Guard on Monday ordered the 
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