Last night, US Soccer sent an e-mail to US Soccer Supporters Club members, saying that there would be a USSSC-exclusive sale of tickets to the away game this morning at 9am Central. Strike one: less than a twenty-four hour notice.
My friend Charlie, who is also planning to go, said he would take care of getting our tickets, so I didn't worry about it this morning. Right about 9, I got a text from Charlie; he was only able to get one ticket, and he did that before it was actually 9:00. Strike two: starting the sale before the stated time.
I then hopped onto the USSSC-member page to try and buy myself a ticket. At 9:03 (according to my phone), I sent a text to Charlie to say they were sold out. Strike three: getting such a tiny amount of tickets that they were sold out within three minutes of
Not surprisingly, US Soccer has again struck out.
Granted, getting tickets is a bit easier these days; in 2009, you still had to fax in forms to Soccer House in Chicago. But getting away tickets during this Hex has mostly been a disaster:
- tickets for Honduras didn't get mailed out; people had to pick them up from a hotel in San Pedro Sula;
- tickets for Azteca were delayed multiple times, and arrived mere days before the Denver game;
- American Outlaws arranged the tickets for Jamaica, but were apparently given a bad batch before having them swapped out for the proper tickets.
So, US Soccer: figure it out already. I know there's some goofy game you play with the other federations about away ticket allocations; but for the sake of your supporters, please stop it. The number of fans traveling to away games—especially qualifiers, and doubly-so the Hex—has been growing. We want to be loyal and support you, at home and on the road; you're keeping us from doing that.
So now what? Hopefully AO will have some tickets for sale separate of their ground package, as we're not planning on doing that. Otherwise, I just don't know.
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