With different frames of reference, different perspectives or different levels of living, that amount of money can do many things, or nothing. With 300,000 VND, you can fill up your motorbike a few times or just fill up a tank of gas for your car, buy a few pounds of rice, a few kilos of meat... Or you can only buy a moon cake, eat a bowl of pho... With current market prices, many people jokingly say that taking a few hundred thousand to the market for a day feels like "being robbed".
For football fans, VND300,000 is the highest ticket price to watch the Vietnamese team play two home matches at the ASEAN Cup 2024. The two lower prices are VND200,000 and VND100,000. In a regional tournament, these are acceptable prices.
300,000 VND spent in exchange for spiritual values - excitement, joy, entertainment and specialties that football can bring - is more worthy than the negative pastimes that are rampant out there. However, there are still many doubts about the ability to attract fans to fill Viet Tri stadium.
Make a small comparison with the event “Anh trai say hi” at My Dinh stadium - a reason why the national football team had to choose to play at another stadium, the lowest ticket price was 500,000 VND and the highest was up to 10 million VND. The “waiting room” for buying tickets online was recorded at nearly 50,000 times - exceeding the capacity of the My Dinh stadium (40,000).
Because we have been admitting to each other one thing, the national football team is “losing value” because of a series of bad results in the past 2 years. Not only the results, but also the way of performance has made many people consider buying tickets to the stadium and then get angry or sitting with friends somewhere…
And when the team loses value like that, the "ticket brokers" must be sad, the black market is also deserted. The pressure on coach Kim Sang-sik and his team at the ASEAN Cup 2024 is huge, both on and off the field, with the responsibility of regaining the trust of the fans...
