Almost two million people killed each other with virtual elbows
to get one of the 63,331 tickets that the AFA put up for sale for Argentina-Panama
.
That is, less than 3 percent were lucky.
Those who made it, those who could buy, celebrated that triumph like crazy.
Almost like Gonzalo Montiel's penalty in the definition against France in the World Cup final.
But for many fans, the joy was short-lived because a new problem appeared: the schedules to physically pick up the tickets at the gate of the Monumental.
In the era of QR, virtual queues, bank digitization, you still
have to go to a window to have a colored piece of paper printed.
If it was already a complication to accommodate and go on the days and times that the organization arranged for the fans who live in Buenos Aires and the AMBA,
for the fans from the interior it became a problem that they did not have on the radar
.
Because the tickets, according to the location, can only be withdrawn between Friday and Tuesday.
They feel like no one thought of them.
That it was designed for "the porteños".
That happened to Javier Jobson, a fan of the National Team who lives in Rafaela, Santa Fe. He is separated by almost 600 kilometers from the retirement point.
As he explains to
Clarín
, they found out about this requirement once they had paid more than 130,000 pesos for the five tickets.
Sold out.
There were two hours and 20 minutes of ticket sales.
"My son had about nine windows open in the browser to queue. When he got home at 2:00 p.m., each one had 700,000, 500,000. But in one there was 1,500. There he screamed. He was going to be able to enter " He begins to narrate.
Once he was able to get in,
he pulled out five tickets.
They are stalls San Martín, which are worth about 24 thousand pesos.
For this operation, the Deportick company (which organizes the sale) took almost 6 thousand pesos as a commission.
But when he buys them, he finds out that the system to withdraw them is face-to-face.
"The system tells you at the end that you have to go and pick them up somewhere. How do I look for them?
If the info had been before buying, I would have thought so
," he adds.
Clarín
was able to see the email they received.
There he informs that the only pick-up times are Friday and Sunday for his locations.
It does not offer other alternatives for fans from the interior.
If they exist, they are not published.
Javier picked up the phone and started calling the AFA headquarters to see if they could offer him a solution.
He says that they treated him kindly, but they explained to him that Deportick was responsible.
They also gave him an email to write to consult.
He sent a message and got no response.
Within a few hours he sent another.
He arrived bounced,
the post office box was already full.
The confirmation email that arrived to the buyers of the Argentina-Panama tickets
Clarín
also tried to contact the company to see if there were solutions for fans who are far from the Monumental, but he had no response either.
From the page there is no information about it.
The five tickets are for him, his son and three other friends.
All of them had asked for Thursday at work to be able to travel to Buenos Aires.
"My plan was to go on Thursday at dawn, we arrive in the morning, we grab the tickets, we rent an apartment for Friday night, we go to see the Obelisk and come back. It's a considerable coin, but now we don't know what to do
,
" account.
When they published the message on social networks, several fans from all over the country told him that they were in a similar situation.
There are cases of Tucumán
"Last night I had a barbecue with friends and everyone wanted to enter. I was lucky, but now how do I look for the tickets? I have to go, look for them and come back," says Javier.
She is evaluating traveling on Sunday, the last day he can look for them, but
she wants to believe that there will be a mechanism for the fans from the interior.
Martin lives in Neuquen.
He had the number 9 thousand in the virtual queue.
He was able to enter, he scored with two Belgrano casualties, but he began to read the fine print.
There he saw that the retreat was this Friday or Sunday.
He didn't take it out.
"I had to leave on Sunday, stay there until the day of the game. My other option was the Sívori, which I could pick up on Tuesday, but I didn't want to risk it.
In
the end I didn't take it out because there was nothing prepared for the people from inside," he protests.
The retirement schedule
"I wanted to go with my old man, he did not give us to go to Qatar, but neither did he spend 100 Lucas between tickets and trip and that there he could not withdraw the ticket. Now they say that they are seeing if they enable something to withdraw for those in the
interior before,
but I didn't want to risk it," he says.
According to the information provided by Deportick to buyers, in order to pick up the tickets, the holder of the purchase must come to the Monumental with the DNI and the physical credit card.
Although it is a measure that aims to guarantee greater customer security, it also becomes
a complication for those who live far away.
It is that if they had an acquaintance in Buenos Aires who could withdraw their tickets, they would not be able to go either.
Deportick, the company that was chosen by the AFA to sell the tickets, announced on Thursday that there were 1,400,000 people in the virtual waiting room waiting to buy one of the available seats.
The system drew lots among all those who were waiting and assigned them a place in the virtual queue.
In favor, it never collapsed
despite the very high demand.
Two hours and 20 minutes later the "Sold Out" sign arrived.
Those who were able to buy the tickets must pick them up according to their location.
Tickets for the stalls San Martín and Belgrano are withdrawn on Friday the 17th and Sunday the 19th from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Más Monumental ticket offices.
The Sívori generals retire on Saturday the 18th and Tuesday the 21st at the same time.
The Centenario generals, for their part, will be available on Monday the 20th and Tuesday the 21st.
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