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well, after being relegated for the first time, Corinthians signed the right manager and now we are playing decent football again.
Série B is being very easy up to now, and we are in the great final of the Copa do Brasil, our FA Cup, but even more important, cause the winner goes to Libertadores (our CL).
We will play the first leg at home on Wednesday, against Sport, a medium club (bit like Man City in England or Fiorentina in Italy), a dark horse that has kicked out Brazilian Giants like Internacional and Palmeiras.
In Brazil, you need to suffer to buy tickets for big games. And that's what I had to do - once again - to get a ticket to the final.
On Saturday, I went out with some friends and my girlfriend to a party and at 4:30 AM I went off alone to get a place in the queue, and the tickets would only begin to be sold at 10:00am.
It was cold (10 degrees) and raining and dark. There were already around 1,000 people in the queue when I arrived, wearing Corinthians and Corinthians's firms uniforms, sheltering from the rain under Corinthians flags, playing cards, smoking fags and joints, drinking beer and cheap wine.
The guy who was just before me in the queue offered to share his large umbrella with me, but later I bought a cheap raincoat (aroun 1 pound) sold by street vendors along the queue.
a group of five young Corintianos arrived after me in the queue, and then we smoked a couple of joints, drank some wine and talked about football.
Around 6:30 the sun appeared. The fans began to sing Corinthians chants, and the queue was already a monster. I guess there were 1,000 fans before me and around 5,000 after me.
This place is near a big park, so there were people jogging by in that Sunday morning. People who went by wearing green (Palmeiras colour) were forced to take off their green sweaters, jackets or baseball caps, but apart from that there were no violent incidents.
At 9:30 AM they began to sell the tickets, at 1:00PM I bought mine, the cheapest of them (behind the goal, lowest ring of 3), for around 6 pounds (the most expensive was around 40 pounds). And then I got a ride back home offered by one of the blokes I met in the queue.
At home I was broken, tired and falling to pieces. Hadn't slept yet. But happy to have my precious, gorgeous ticket with me.
48 thousand tickets were sold in 1 day. There are still 20 thousand to be sold tomorrow, and they will certainly be sold before noon.
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I guess it's probably the last time I do this. I'm getting too old for these things.
Football tickets market is still in the middle ages in Brazil, mainly because our football managers don't give a damn about the fans. Brazilian clubs are mostly financed by TV money (here much more than in Europe), and the money earned in the games don't mean much to them.
Furtunately, this is beginning to change. Corinthains now is trying a new programme (as well as some other clubs): You pay a tax per year and you can buy your tickets through the Internet, and your ticket is granted, that is, you run no risk of not finding a ticket to a game until the day before, cause it will be reserved for you. maybe I'll try this.
Série B is being very easy up to now, and we are in the great final of the Copa do Brasil, our FA Cup, but even more important, cause the winner goes to Libertadores (our CL).
We will play the first leg at home on Wednesday, against Sport, a medium club (bit like Man City in England or Fiorentina in Italy), a dark horse that has kicked out Brazilian Giants like Internacional and Palmeiras.
In Brazil, you need to suffer to buy tickets for big games. And that's what I had to do - once again - to get a ticket to the final.
On Saturday, I went out with some friends and my girlfriend to a party and at 4:30 AM I went off alone to get a place in the queue, and the tickets would only begin to be sold at 10:00am.
It was cold (10 degrees) and raining and dark. There were already around 1,000 people in the queue when I arrived, wearing Corinthians and Corinthians's firms uniforms, sheltering from the rain under Corinthians flags, playing cards, smoking fags and joints, drinking beer and cheap wine.
The guy who was just before me in the queue offered to share his large umbrella with me, but later I bought a cheap raincoat (aroun 1 pound) sold by street vendors along the queue.
a group of five young Corintianos arrived after me in the queue, and then we smoked a couple of joints, drank some wine and talked about football.
Around 6:30 the sun appeared. The fans began to sing Corinthians chants, and the queue was already a monster. I guess there were 1,000 fans before me and around 5,000 after me.
This place is near a big park, so there were people jogging by in that Sunday morning. People who went by wearing green (Palmeiras colour) were forced to take off their green sweaters, jackets or baseball caps, but apart from that there were no violent incidents.
At 9:30 AM they began to sell the tickets, at 1:00PM I bought mine, the cheapest of them (behind the goal, lowest ring of 3), for around 6 pounds (the most expensive was around 40 pounds). And then I got a ride back home offered by one of the blokes I met in the queue.
At home I was broken, tired and falling to pieces. Hadn't slept yet. But happy to have my precious, gorgeous ticket with me.
48 thousand tickets were sold in 1 day. There are still 20 thousand to be sold tomorrow, and they will certainly be sold before noon.
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I guess it's probably the last time I do this. I'm getting too old for these things.
Football tickets market is still in the middle ages in Brazil, mainly because our football managers don't give a damn about the fans. Brazilian clubs are mostly financed by TV money (here much more than in Europe), and the money earned in the games don't mean much to them.
Furtunately, this is beginning to change. Corinthains now is trying a new programme (as well as some other clubs): You pay a tax per year and you can buy your tickets through the Internet, and your ticket is granted, that is, you run no risk of not finding a ticket to a game until the day before, cause it will be reserved for you. maybe I'll try this.
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