Women's World Cup kicks off in France, but you'd barely know it in Paris

A man walks past a billboard showing members of the French Women's World Cup soccer team on the side of a building on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Rachel Joyner

PARIS (Reuters) - The Women's World Cup kicks off on Friday as hosts France take on South Korea. But if you were strolling the streets of Paris, you would be forgiven for not knowing it was happening.

Ticket sales have not been a problem -- more than 950,000 seats have been snapped up already, 75 percent of the 1.3 million available, according to FIFA -- but in a blustery and rainy Paris, World Cup fever has yet to take hold.