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Sluggish ticket sales for the Women's World Cup have prompted FIFA to offer up 20,000 tickets for free.
The tournament is co-hosted between New Zealand and Australia and kicks off in Auckland next week.
But ticket sales have been very slow on this side of the Tasman, with hundreds of thousands still up for grabs. FIFA has partnered with Xero to offer 5,000 tickets to a game in each of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Dunedin.
Our reporter Bill Hickman and cameraman Samuel Rillstone have the story.