The anger of Inter Milan fans who bought tickets to see the national team and can’t collect them: “It wasn’t meant for us”

Nearly two million people have killed themselves with virtual elbows for obtaining one of the 63,331 tickets that the AFA has put on sale for Argentina-Panama. That is, less than 3 percent were lucky. Those who made it, those who were able to 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 didn’t last long because a new problem arose: the times to physically collect the tickets at the Monumental gate. In the era of QR codes, virtual queues, banking digitisation, again you have to go to the window to have him print a colored slip.

If it was already a complication to welcome and go on the days and times that the organization has organized for fans living in Buenos Aires and AMBA, For interior fans it became an issue they didn’t have on their radar. Because tickets, depending on the location, can only be collected between Friday and Tuesday. It seems that nobody thought about them. Which was designed for “the porteños”.

It happened to Javier Jobson, a fan of the national team who lives in Rafaela, Santa Fe, almost 600 kilometers away from the point of withdrawal. As he explains to clarionthey learned of this requirement after paying more than 130,000 pesos for the five tickets.

“My son had about nine windows open in his browser queuing. When he got home at 2pm, each had 700,000, 500,000. But one had 1,500. There he yelled. “Start narrating. Once you’ve managed to enter, tied five innings. They are San Martín stalls, which are worth around 24,000 pesos. For this operation, the Deportick company (which organizes the sale) took almost 6,000 pesos as commission.

But when he buys them, he discovers that the system for picking them up is face-to-face. “The system tells you at the end that you have to go and get them from that side. How do I look for them? If the information was before the purchase, I thought so“He adds.

clarion could see the mail they received. There it informs that the only pick-up times are Fridays and Sundays for its locations. It offers no other alternatives for the fans from within. If they exist, they are not published.

Javier picked up the phone and started calling AFA headquarters to see if they could offer him a solution. He says they treated him kindly, but explained that Deportick was responsible. They also gave him an email to write for a consult. He sent a message and got no response. A few hours later he sent another. Came to him bounced, the mailbox was already full.

clarion He also tried to contact the company to find out if there were solutions for fans away from the Monumental, but he didn’t get an answer either. From the page there is no information about it.

The five tickets are for him, his son and three other friends. Everyone had asked Thursday at work to be able to travel to Buenos Aires. “My plan was to go Thursday at dawn, arrive in the morning, get tickets, rent an apartment for Friday night, go see the Obelisk and come back. It’s a sizable coin, but now we don’t know what to do.”account.

When they posted the message on social networks, several fans from across the country told them they were in a similar situation. There are cases of Tucumán

“Last night I had a barbecue with friends and everyone wanted to come in. I was lucky, but now how do I look for tickets? I have to go, look for them and come back,” says Javier. Are you thinking of traveling on Sunday, the last day you can look for them, but He wants to believe that there will be a fan mechanism inside.

Martin lives in Neuquen. He had the number 9,000 in the virtual queue. He got in, scored with two losses to Belgrano, but started reading the fine print. There he saw that the retreat was this Friday or Sunday. He didn’t bring it out.

“I had to leave on Sunday, stay there until match day. 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 inside,” he protests.

“I wanted to go with my old man, he didn’t give us enough to go to Qatar, but he didn’t even spend 100 Lucas between the ticket and the journey so he couldn’t collect the ticket. Now they say they’re seeing if they allow those inside to retreat sooner, but I didn’t want to risk it,” he says.

According to the information provided by Deportick to the purchasers, to collect the tickets, the holder of the purchase must present himself at the Monumental with his DNI and physical credit card. Although it is a measure that aims to guarantee greater security for the customer, it also becomes one a complication for those who live far away. It’s that if they had an acquaintance in Buenos Aires who could pick up their tickets, they couldn’t go either.

Deportick, the company chosen by the AFA to sell tickets, announced Thursday that there were 1,400,000 people in the virtual waiting room waiting to buy one of the available seats. The system randomly selected all those waiting and assigned them a place in the virtual queue. Pro, never collapsed despite the high demand. Two hours and 20 minutes later the “Sold Out” sign came up.

Those who were able to purchase tickets must collect them according to their location. Tickets for the San Martín and Belgrano stalls can be collected on Friday 17 and Sunday 19 from 8:00 to 18:00 at the Más Monumental ticket offices.

The Sívori generals withdraw on Saturday 18 and Tuesday 21 at the same time. The generals of the Centenary, for their part, will be available on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21.