Soccer the most popular sport of all, did it stop being?
Many were astonished on December 20 when more than four million people filled the streets
of Buenos Aires and overflowed the urban highways that link Ezeiza with the Federal Capital in order to be close to the world champion Argentina team.
Although the reason
seems more than obvious
: beyond those who went to celebrate the Scaleneta title in Qatar 2022, for tens of thousands of fans that
was the only chance to see Lionel Messi, Dibu Martínez and company up close
.
And the prices that the AFA released for the matches against Panama and Curaçao seem to confirm that theory.
With a week to go before the friendly match between Argentina and a team B from Panama this Thursday from 2:00 p.m. tickets go on sale virtually, through the page www.deportick.com, which debuts in a big way
with
the Selection matches.
But the fever for the National Team is so great that it was translated even into the requests for accreditations to cover the match that exceeded 130,000, that is, more than two River together.
The Más Monumental has a capacity that exceeds 83,000 spectators but it will be necessary to discount 30 percent of tickets that will go for protocol issues (family members of players and guests) in addition to commercial commitments.
If you take into account that some 2 million people have already registered to try to hunt for an entry on Deportick's page, it is clear that there will be many people who will have to settle for watching the game on television.
The "inflation" of the world champion
However, the controversy broke out when
the prices were known, which start at 12,000 pesos and go up to 49,000
.
You don't have to be a math genius: at least a typical family should spend almost fifty thousand pesos, just on tickets, to attend the River field for the game between Argentina and Panama.
Never better said:
being a champion in Qatar "raised the price" for the National Team
.
We must also take into account the galloping inflation with which the pocket of Argentine fans lives.
The data is clear if the price of the tickets for this match is compared with the last one that Argentina played at home, when they were already champions of America.
It was almost an exact year ago,
on March 25, 2022
at La Bombonera.
Scaloni's team closed the Qualifiers already qualified for Qatar playing against
Ecuador
, which also had its place in the Middle East secured.
The final result was 3-0 with goals from Nico González, Ángel Di María and Lionel Messi but what comes to mind is the value of the tickets for that gala performance at La Scaloneta.
The price of the popular to see that Argentina vs. Ecuador from a year ago was
3,900 pesos
, a third of what it costs now to see the three-star Albiceleste.
If the interannual inflation recently announced by INDEC was 102.5%,
tickets to see the National Team increased by more than 200%.
Humor as therapy: anger and memes over ticket prices
The reaction in the networks due to the excessive price of the tickets was not long in coming.
And the users were dispatched with all.
"Court of cheetos", was the one that the Boca fans chose to vent their anger over the cost of the tickets for the game that will be played at the Monumental.
But humor was also appealed to.
As always, the Simpsons were not lacking.
These are some of the memes that flooded the networks.
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