PARIS (Reuters) - Paris' Parc des Princes stadium can hold 48,000 people at full capacity and every seat is expected to be taken on Friday night as hosts France take on the U.S. defending champions in a highly anticipated women's World Cup quarter-final.
Amid a heatwave in France -- with temperatures hitting a record-high 45 degrees centigrade -- supporters of the U.S. team and Les Bleues were gearing up for a big game.
Ross bought her ticket immediately after the draw was made in December, betting that France and the United States would both top their groups and end up facing each other.Ross and dozens of other fans, young and old, were visiting a small museum in the district of Les Halles where a host of World Cup memorabilia, from former U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo's gloves to the trophy to be lifted on July 7, were on display.
"It's really an early final," said Elise Santal, 23."I think it's going to be, from a media point of view, incredible for women's football.Tickets sold out long ago, but the secondary market is hot online, with some platforms offering seats for several hundreds of euros and in one case a single seat for 10,000 euros .
Prominent U.S. fan-club"American Outlaws" tweeted of the game:"They don't get any bigger than this". The tweet continued:"In France 1/4 finals... history is going to be made."
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