Chapter 196: Ticket Buying Rhapsody
In terms of logistical support, the Dragon Football Association has done its best for the Dragon Team to ensure that the players of the Dragon Team can devote themselves to training and preparation with the fullest spirit and the best physical condition during the training camp before the opening of the World Cup.
Not only during the domestic training camp, the logistics support of the Dragon Football Association has reached the limit, and after the Dragon Team left for Russia, the Dragon Football Association has also set very high standards in terms of logistics support.
As early as the end of the World Cup group draw ceremony and the decision of the Dragon Country team in the World Cup group stage, the Dragon Country Football Association has sent special personnel to the above three places in Russia to inspect the local accommodation and food situation, and arrange suitable accommodation and food for the Dragon Country team during the game according to local conditions.
All the hotels are of five-star standard, and in addition to local specialties, a large number of ingredients are specially transported from China for the nutritionists and chefs accompanying the team.
According to reports, in the last World Cup in Brazil, the reason why the German team was able to win the championship is inseparable from their great logistical support, and they even spent 25 million euros in Brazil to build a luxury training base including 13 villas in order to allow the players to train and prepare for the game, and flew a large number of fitness and training equipment from Germany!
The Dragon Country has money, which is now recognized by the world, but in terms of the logistics of this World Cup, there is still no luxury, but the Dragon Football Association has done its best to ensure that the players of the Dragon Country team can worry about the future and devote themselves to the preparation.
Dragon country fans, enthusiasm for the World Cup, has now been thoroughly stimulated.
Not only the next two warm-up matches with Algeria and Paraguay, tickets were snatched up, but the tickets for the three group stage games of the Dragon Country in this World Cup were also snapped up by wealthy and enthusiastic Dragon Country fans - except for the opening game with the host Russian team, which was occupied by the Russians, and there were not so many tickets grabbed, the vast majority of tickets for the other two games fell into the hands of Dragon Country fans.
The two World Cup group games of the Dragons, Uruguay and Egypt are also the only two games in the group stage of the World Cup in Russia so far, and all two tickets have been sold out.
FIFA and the Russian Football Association originally allocated not many tickets to the Dragon Country, which could not meet the needs of Dragon Country fans to cheer for the Dragon Country team at the game site!
As a result, in addition to the official ticketing channels, Longguo fans have independently developed a variety of ticket purchase channels, and even some travel agencies have set up a special service project for fans to purchase tickets during this period, from which some handling fees are charged, which can also make those travel agencies make a lot of money.
Another ticket purchase channel worth mentioning is that several border cities on the border between Russia and the Dragon Country, during the World Cup ticket sales, ushered in a wave of Dragon Country transit sightseeing tours, since the World Cup tickets can not be bought in the Dragon Country, Dragon Country fans will continue to cross the border to Russia to buy.
It is inconvenient to buy with the identity of the Dragon Country fans themselves, so they borrow the identity of local residents in Russia to buy, which is nothing more than paying some benefit fees, which is a common thing in the Dragon Country, and the wealthy Dragon Country fans don't care about this little money at all.
According to the statistics of the Russian Consulate in the Dragon Kingdom, during the World Cup, the number of Dragon Kingdom applicants for tourist visas to Russia, as of the end of May 2018, has reached 300,000 people, and this number is still increasing, according to the Russian Consulate in the Dragon Country projections, during the World Cup, the number of Dragon Country tourists to Russia will likely reach 400,000!
With so many people, not everyone can snap up tickets to the World Cup, especially tickets for the three group stage games of the Dragon Nation.
In the three group games in which the Dragon Kingdom team participated, the total number of tickets was only 171,500, of which less than 170,000 tickets were sold to the outside world.
The first group game, the opening match against the host Russian team, was played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, the largest of the 12 stadiums in this World Cup in Russia, with an audience of 81,000 spectators, but because of the participation of the host and the nature of its opening match, its popularity may be second only to the finals and two semi-finals in the entire 64 matches of the World Cup.
Therefore, although the fans of the Dragon Kingdom are actively rushing to buy, there are not many people who really grab tickets for the opening game, according to incomplete statistics, only six or seven thousand people should have grabbed tickets for this game.
The capacity of the stadium hosting the other two group stage games of the Dragon Country team is about 45,000 spectators, and half of the tickets for these two games were grabbed by Dragon Country fans.
In addition to the Dragon team, there are many teams worth paying attention to in this World Cup, such as the five-star Brazil team, the Argentine team with the twin stars of contemporary football Messi, the Portuguese team with Ronaldo, and the defending champion, the German team known as the male model team.
Not being able to go to the game site to support the Dragon Country team, and being able to see the games of these teams on the spot is also something worth touting for a long time.
According to FIFA statistics, of the two million World Cup tickets that have been sold, the host country Russia has the largest number of buyers, reaching 700,000; The second is the Dragon Country, according to incomplete statistics, there are a total of 200,000 tickets, which are enough for the Dragon Country.
This number is actually very conservative, if you add the number of tickets purchased by Dragon Country fans using the identity of Russian locals, the World Cup tickets that fall into the hands of Dragon Country people are at least 250,000!
Moreover, this number will continue to increase before the start of the World Cup.
Many of the Dragon Country tourists who have not bought tickets for the World Cup for the time being, but have already confirmed their itinerary to Russia during the World Cup, have the idea of trying to buy tickets for the games they want to see in various ways after arriving in Russia.
As for how this idea can be realized, the method of Dragon Kingdom fans is simple and crude - pay a high price to buy scalper tickets!
In the eyes of outsiders, the role of luck is to be on top of the strength of the team, the next Qatar World Cup, if the army is not expanded, whether the Dragon team can be shortlisted again is a very difficult thing to say, so this World Cup, for some Dragon fans, is the best opportunity to witness the national football style on the stage of the World Cup.
If you can't grasp it, wait for the next time, and you don't know when it will be.