ticket in town on Saturday, with thousands of supporters travelling from the region, with or without tickets.have done all they can to make ticket touting as tough as possible. Football supporters, however, always find a way.
Most tickets are supplied on QR codes, which cannot be transferred, but there are still paper tickets that can be sold on. Rather than taking the risk of asking around outside stadiums, in a country not afraid to crack down on any rule breaking, Argentina fans have taken matters into their own hands.spoke to enroute to their crucial clash with Mexico only 10 had tickets between them, with the rest furiously glued to their phones.
“We check the groups every 10 seconds,” one supporter says. “At the moment, the best on offer is 400 dollars , even though he told me 200 yesterday.” The conversation started after the ticket was posted on a WhatsApp group. There are “lots, maybe hundreds” of these groups, with supporters frantically checking each for the best offers.
“I have offered everything I can, but so far it is not enough. Now this game is so important, it is harder to get them but we will all keep trying,” another says, taking a brief break from his phone.