Tickets for the last Serie A match of the season are now impossible to find. Napoli champion of Italy. On Sunday, at the Maradona stadium, the Azzurri will meet the already relegated Sampdoria and, at the end of the match, there will be the official coronation with the delivery of the cup.
Yesterday, when tickets were available from 15pm, the website for online ticket sales was completely clogged. Already from the previous hour on TicketOne queues of over 200 people were reported.
In the afternoon the situation worsened to the point of reaching peaks of 400 thousand people waiting and then finally stopping. In the evening the epilogue with the online notice "ordinary sectors: availability of places sold out".
Fans are therefore embittered, not only for not having the opportunity to attend the last match of the championship of their favourites, but also because, as the deputy of the Green-Left alliance denounces in a note Francesco Emilio Borrelli “On the web, on social media and on ticket sales portals, online touts are running wild, offering tickets at crazy prices.”
“We asked the Guardia di Finanza to investigate. It's not the first time – Borrelli remarks – that such a phenomenon occurs not only for football matches but also for concerts and other events.
The resale system of the tickets online it needs to be completely revised because it is clear that it does not work. But speculation with the resale of tickets at shocking prices must also be stopped.
Either we adopt a Blockchain system, impossible to circumvent with the software that is currently used by professional touts to buy dozens of tickets, or we go back to selling tickets only and exclusively at the box office with tight controls.
It almost seems – concludes the deputy – that the illegal market is better supplied than the legal one. Witnessing this outrage is no longer tolerable”.
Article published on May 30, 2023 - 13:20 pm
