Anxiety and delays: when do tickets start to see the Argentina national team?

There is a question that has been nucleating the world of football in the Argentine Republic for several days: When do ticket sales start for the first World Cup friendlies?. And the delayed response generates anxiety, added to the great expectations and requests that exist for wanting to be in situ when Thursday the 23rd will face Panama at the Monumental de Núñez stadium and Tuesday 28 against Curacao at the Mother of Cities stadium in Santiago del Estero.

A series of formal administrative matters that the AFA had to complete in order to make friendlies official was the initial cause of the wait. From the permit that Panama had to present to CONCACAF to play against two teams from different confederations on the same FIFA date – on Tuesday 28 it will do so against Costa Rica for the League of Nations – to the signing of the mandatory contracts, different stages.

Which in addition to the fact that he was the president of the AFA himself, Claudio Chiqui Tapiathe one who confirmed rivals and matchdays for the world champion Argentina national team’s first friendlies during The Best FIFA gala in Paris, there were still matters to be settled.

Although, historically, tickets could be purchased through Autoentrada.com, on this occasion the AFA stipulated that this be done through sportick. com, a platform created in 2021 specializing in high-demand shows. Waiting for the official values ​​-which would probably be the first step this Tuesday-, the opening of the sale would be expected from Thursday at 10:00.

The web portal had previously been used to purchase tickets for the match between River and Banfield for the semi-finals of the Professional League Champions Trophy, scheduled for February 22 at the Mario Alberto Kempes. In addition, he currently has tickets on sale for the ‘World Champions’ exhibition organized by AFA in La Rural and which will open to the public in April.

Deportick already had the National Albiceleste in its events: it was last September when the AFA organized the first edition of the Futsal finalwhich, in the image and likeness of football, brought together champions and runners-up from America (Argentina and Paraguay) and Europe (Portugal and Spain).

For this occasion, we must take into account that of little more than 83,000 seats that the Monumental stadium currently has, as always, a percentage of tickets is split between players, officials, sponsors and special guests who will have the first presentation of Scaleneta with the third star embroidered on the shirt.

Historical number of print orders

Of course, there is not only an expectation based on the fans of the Argentina national team, but also in the journalism that wants to cover this event with Lionel Messi and company. as far as he could tell clarionthe online accreditation process generated for these friendlies received a total of 131,537 orders. Yes, a monumental capacity and a half.

After the renovation works of the River Plate stadium, the number of positions available for radio and written press has risen to 247. There are also the transmission booths, which are 17, and could accommodate another large group of accredited players.

Among the requests, logically, that of the Argentine media predominates, but also Europe it sits in second place and there are quite a few 50 from Bangladeshthe South Asian country that has forged a close relationship with La Scaloneta, which was highlighted in the celebration of each of the six victories it took to become champion in Qatar 2022.

Scaloni’s list of sheets

The football level of the rivals, ranked 61st and 86th in the FIFA ranking, shows that the priority of the matches will not be the sporting competition but celebrating the title obtained in Qatar with the Argentinean public.

Among Lionel Scaloni’s squad are the 26 players who were in Lusail lifting the trophy, with the stellar presence of Lionel Messi, of course, and also other players who are making their comeback, such as Giovani Lo Celso, who missed out on the tournament due to injury a few weeks before the debut against Saudi Arabia.

The biggest surprise among the 36 names – Giovanni Simeone joined the original last Friday – is the presence of white lautara 26-year-old footballer from Elche in Spain who emerged in Rosario Central, joining as another variant in the left-back position, behind Marcos Acuña and Nicolás Tagliafico.

Among the so-called “europibes”, the boys who grew up in Europe and were highly appreciated by Scaloni appeared Valentine Carboni AND Alexander Garnachowho ended up on crutches after being sent off in Manchester United’s draw with Southampton on Sunday.

Slow but constant renewal is one of the great challenges that Scaloni will have to face at the beginning of this new cycle. That is why there is a group of boys who promise to have minutes for what is coming for the national team, the Copa América 2024, in the United States, and the 2026 World Cup, in North America.