I and my wife am a football loving fan...and what we experienced today was simply a disgrace to the country and the organization. We reached there at 4:30...parked the car miles away...walking confidently towards the stadium...the so-called AFC officials whose very purpose was to direct the fans...were standing clueless at the questions thrown at them regarding the way to enter. One guy says left and the other right...we chose our own way...but only to find a huge crowd in a highly disorganized manner (thanks to the AFC volunteers for being absent at the site). We were clueless where to stand as there were no proper lines...we stand in the queue for a long time just to discover that the queue is getting longer and longer...Then all of a sudden this security guy comes in and says family this line, women there, and men here...the crowd rearranges with a lot of difficulties accordingly...and the wait continues...and shortly, they start closing the gates one by one...and disperses the crowd asking them to go to the next gate....nobody knows what’s happening around...men, women, children, old people,...all confused where to go and what to do...and in some cases husbands were let in and wives & children standing and vice-versa...people rushed to the other gate only to see that the situation was even worse there...approx. 8000 people stranded outside with absolutely no guidance and no volunteers...people rushed to the ticket offices for reimbursement but only to our dismay they couldn’t even communicate well and the officials had a very arrogant and unapproachable attitude...and in one instance they started to fight ...there were riot forces and horses roaming around fearing commotion...police officials as usual were attending only the Arabic speaking ones...Women, children and infants were waiting outside in spite of having legit tickets..It was really messy
There are allegations / rumors that a lot of students / employees of a reputed firm were provided with free tickets and some of them entered ticketless. This is absolutely unethical, pathetic and unacceptable and a disgrace to the country
We seek a thorough investigation into this...and the AFC chairman should state a public apology...and immediately arrange for reimbursing the tickets.
On a separate note the award ceremony was really unprofessional...they missed out honoring the 3rd position winners i.e. S.Korea...the organizers did a poor job....what a disgrace to an International match
This is not against the home country State of Qatar...but to vent out the frustration and disappointment of a huge mass out there who missed the game.
This should be a lesson learnt for the officials lest they sleep on this issue till 2022. Hence wake up guys !!!
First of all my hearty congrats to Japan
I and my wife am a football loving fan...and what we experienced today was simply a disgrace to the country and the organization. We reached there at 4:30...parked the car miles away...walking confidently towards the stadium...the so-called AFC officials whose very purpose was to direct the fans...were standing clueless at the questions thrown at them regarding the way to enter. One guy says left and the other right...we chose our own way...but only to find a huge crowd in a highly disorganized manner (thanks to the AFC volunteers for being absent at the site). We were clueless where to stand as there were no proper lines...we stand in the queue for a long time just to discover that the queue is getting longer and longer...Then all of a sudden this security guy comes in and says family this line, women there, and men here...the crowd rearranges with a lot of difficulties accordingly...and the wait continues...and shortly, they start closing the gates one by one...and disperses the crowd asking them to go to the next gate....nobody knows what’s happening around...men, women, children, old people,...all confused where to go and what to do...and in some cases husbands were let in and wives & children standing and vice-versa...people rushed to the other gate only to see that the situation was even worse there...approx. 8000 people stranded outside with absolutely no guidance and no volunteers...people rushed to the ticket offices for reimbursement but only to our dismay they couldn’t even communicate well and the officials had a very arrogant and unapproachable attitude...and in one instance they started to fight ...there were riot forces and horses roaming around fearing commotion...police officials as usual were attending only the Arabic speaking ones...Women, children and infants were waiting outside in spite of having legit tickets..It was really messy
There are allegations / rumors that a lot of students / employees of a reputed firm were provided with free tickets and some of them entered ticketless. This is absolutely unethical, pathetic and unacceptable and a disgrace to the country
We seek a thorough investigation into this...and the AFC chairman should state a public apology...and immediately arrange for reimbursing the tickets.
On a separate note the award ceremony was really unprofessional...they missed out honoring the 3rd position winners i.e. S.Korea...the organizers did a poor job....what a disgrace to an International match
This is not against the home country State of Qatar...but to vent out the frustration and disappointment of a huge mass out there who missed the game.
This should be a lesson learnt for the officials lest they sleep on this issue till 2022. Hence wake up guys !!!