"May the Selection make the great Coldplay and key 10 River"
or
"Edesur, do your thing",
were some of the phrases that accumulated on Twitter like coins with wishes in a fountain.
The sale of tickets for the first match of the National Team after the consecration in the World Cup in Qatar was long -
140 minutes, just one less than the final against France lasted until penalties
- and distressing due to the uncertainty that it generated in
more than a million and a half people
who waited in a
virtual queue
to keep one of the available tickets to see Argentina-Panama at the Monumental next Thursday.
As reported by the AFA, "it was the day with the highest demand for ticket sales for a national sporting event."
And he adds that there were 2,095,350 users who entered the site to buy tickets (with a peak of 1,895,772 simultaneously)
.
"51% of users logged in from their cell phones, while 46% did so from computers. The remaining 3% logged in from tablets or other devices," the statement completes.
"If it were a physical queue, it would be in La Plata"
, laughed a user of the social network where the hashtag
#EntradasArgentina
and the name of the Deportick
website
-which debuted as a platform for the sale of tickets for the National Team- became the maximum tendencies of Argentina during the afternoon.
It was also the place where complaints were made because
the ball
that marked the advance in that tail did not move from the initial position.
Only after 3:00 p.m. did
the first reports of people who had completed the complicated task of buying tickets arrive at the
Clarín newsroom.
Sale of tickets for the match of the Argentine team through the Deportick page.
(Juano Tesone)
Blas -a university student from La Plata- bought four popular tickets at 12,000 pesos at 3:10 p.m., the cheapest tickets available.
"There were 2,400 in line
," said the person who accessed simultaneously with his cell phone and a computer that he gave up using because when he entered the website
"there were 50,000
. "
A while later it was the turn of Manu, a 13-year-old boy from Banfield, who from 11:45 a.m. was waiting for the opening of ticket sales to see Lionel Messi and company with his sister and grandfather.
At 2:00 p.m., when the web was activated with him
at position 5900 in line
and while he was sending photos via Whatsapp to his father -whom he insisted on putting in the credit card-, he waited with the anxiety of teenagers from now for the ball to move to the end.
At 3:08 p.m., he was halfway through, but at 3:30 p.m.
the matrix was unlocked
and the portal returned the drawing of the Monument to him.
Then, the ten minutes available to choose the locations and upload the data
(name and surname and ID) of those who will use the tickets
began to run .
First, he clicked on the Belgrano Alta stall and then on the San Martín Alta stall, but none appeared available.
Until he chose the Centenario Alta and
was able to buy three tickets in exchange for 37,800 pesos
($12,000 each ticket and $1,800 for sales service charges).
Millions of people on the waiting list to buy tickets to see the National Team.
When Gonzalo, a 35-year-old employee of an accounting firm, typed Deportick in his browser, while there
were already six thousand people in front of him
.
With an encouraging figure, compared to the more than a million that were in line five minutes after the start of the sale, shortly after 3:30 p.m. he was able to purchase four popular Sívori Baja.
At 4:20 p.m.
, finally, those who were still waiting in that long virtual queue saw the sign that said "the queue is no longer active".
Moments later, the Deportick website reported that the Argentina-Panama event was
sold out
, ending the illusion of those who continued to wonder on the networks if someone had gotten a ticket to see the world champions.
The demand, of course, was much higher than the supply.
Although the renovated Monumental has a capacity for 83,214 spectators,
around 40% of the seats were put up for sale
.
The rest, among which are stalls like those that Manu tried to get in the first instance, are reserved by agreements with companies, sponsors and protocol.
There are also those tickets that the players requested for family and friends and that, according to what this newspaper was able to find out, would be around 100 for each one.
Tickets sold out in two hours and 20 minutes for the Argentina vs. Panama match.
Another not minor issue is
resale
.
"They complain about the influencers who have tickets but not about the shit cuckolds who are with the resales. Why don't all those who bully celebrities via Twitter get together and shit on those who are selling a popular one for 100 A thousand pesos?"
, claimed a Twitter user, where several were quick to offer tickets despite the fact that they are
nominal and non-transferable
.
Surely, the offer will multiply from this Friday, when at 8 o'clock
the exchange begins at the River stadium
with those who obtained tickets for the San Martín and Belgrano stalls.
On Saturday, meanwhile, it will be the turn of those who will go to the Sívori, while on Monday and Tuesday the time will come for those of the Centenario.
Although, attention:
to go looking for the physical tickets it will be necessary to take the QR sent by mail, the credit or debit card used for the purchase and the ID of the holder.
Despite this parallel and illegal sale that is coming, in the AFA there is happiness after the criticism for the high prices to see the National Team, with tickets that reached 49 thousand pesos, and the indications towards a portal that is owned by the theater impresario
Javier Faroni , former deputy,
Sergio Massa
's kidney man
and director of Aerolíneas Argentinas until last year.
“
In just 2.20 hours
, the fans sold out the tickets that were sold on the Deportick platform.
Despite the
simultaneous entry of millions of fans
, Deportick did not suffer any collapse and the sale was carried out satisfactorily.
We thank everyone for so much love for the Albiceleste and we regret that it is impossible for all supporters to enter a single stadium
," the mother house of Argentine soccer reported.
The party for the world champions is already underway and its main guests have been confirmed.
The best fans in the world proclaimed by FIFA showed that neither the economic crisis nor a lesser rival, such as the "B team" of the Panamanian team, are sufficient reasons to miss the celebration of the third in Núñez.
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