Though, TImnas was beaten 3-0 by the Malaysian Team just tonight, we should not surrender. Come on, I mean after all the victories the National Team has gained, we should be proud we made it to Final. Heck yeah the Malaysian supporters were not playing fair at first, because they shot laser lights towards the Indonesian goal keeper (Markus), just...better luck next time okay! I do kinda notice that our national team did not play with "much of enthusiasm" like they did when they beat Malaysian team a while ago. Was it because Timnas playing in our own country, so they had this positive vibe..well, I don't know, I am not exactly a football fan. Despite that Timnas lost in tonight's match, what bothers me the most was the management of ticket selling by PSSI. I mean they centralized the ticket selling for 80.000 supporters just in Senayan PSSI. Didn't they learn how to sell tickets from professional agents, like "music concert". What the heck were they thinking? Because of the centralization of ticket selling, the expensive price, poor management, lack of facility, they all have caused "riots" in GBK stadium this afternoon. Watching the news, as you can see in the picture above, is like watching resident evil, you know where all the zombies were gone crazies and eating people. Well, it looks like it. Many people were fainted, injured, I think one person was dead because getting stuck in the crowds. And not mention the vandalism. God, can't we become civilized just for watching a football match. To watch concert, the ticket selling is spread into different ticket agents, so there wont be any mass cummulation in one place. I'd say the ticket management should have been handled by "professional ticket agents!"..Please PSSI learn from mistakes. We, Indonesian do want to support our National Team, but you guys..should have managed the tickets better. No more riots!
It's sport turned commercialism as PSSI 'uses' the National Team and this football euphoria as their cash cow. One the hindsight it's a good thing, doubling the price of tickets to filter the supporters, but hey, people are still buying tickets no matter how expensive they are, which in this case show their great enthusiasm to watch their team play. But then, like what you said to me earlier today, raising tickets means improving the public facilities and the system of purchasing tickets. None is done so far!
ReplyDeleteThe commotion that happened today could be a valuable lesson for PSSI to handle the matter at hand and fix it from within the union. Who wouldn't lose patient after having waited for such a long time without any confirmation whether tickets were to be sold? And the procedure of obtaining the ticket, oh c'mon.. it's so complicated and ineffective! First queuing for the receipt, then second queuing to exchange the voucher, and finally exchanging the voucher for the real ticket on the D-Day. Well after all, this is Indonesia, the only place where simple things get complicated.
But again, this does not justify the outraged behavior of the supporters either. They have no right vandalizing public facilities for whatever reason they might have. After what Malaysian supporters have done to Indonesian team in Malaysia, let's just hope Indonesian supporters won't get brutal on the second final match in GKJ. *crossing my fingers*