Tickets to watch the Vietnam – Malaysia battle, the second-leg semifinal game at the Suzuki Cup in Hanoi, has become hot stuff, as dozens of fans fainted Thursday while standing in long queue from midnight.
Though ticket booths started selling them from 8:40am, fans had queued from 22:00pm the night before.
Le Thi Tuyet, 70, from the northern Ha Nam Province, said “I am waiting here from 2:00am [in the open air in front of My Dinh Stadium] despite the freezing weather.”
Till 10:00am on the date, she was still in her line.
Security forces at My Dinh were deployed after the queue became longer and some began jostling and pushing, causing dozens of fans to faint.
Black market scalpers were already cashing in on the occasion.
Due to regulations that each fan could buy no more than two tickets, scalpers hired unemployed people to queue up. They then sold the tickets back eight times higher.
With a ticket worth VND100,000 (US$5), scalpers were willing to pay VND450,000 and then sold to fans at VND700,000 – 800,000.
The second-leg semifinal game is scheduled to kick off at 19:00pm on December 18 in Hanoi. In the first leg, Vietnam were beaten 2-0.
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