The watfordfc fan living in Qatar who has tickets for 25 matches at the World Cup finals
To watch one match at a World Cup Finals is something many football fans hope to achieve during their lifetime.
“I decided that if I’m based in Qatar and there’s a World Cup Finals on, I’m going to get as many tickets to as many games as I possibly can,” said Kate.“As residents we get access to cheaper tickets, but there’s not many of them. You have to go through the ballots. I didn’t get any, but then there is resale. That’s first come first served, so I spent hour upon hour on the websites trying to get tickets.
“I think I’ll be sat overlooking a lot of corner flags too. That was the case for the England/Iran game, though I was sat at the England fans end. “So there will be a significant amount of tickets available for the final at some point. I don’t know whether they’ll go directly to the federations of those teams or if a certain percentage will go on general sale.”
“I was initially teaching cadets in a military base, but now I’m teaching English in a language centre. I also do some corporate training, so things like presentation skills. “My own experience from where I’ve been sitting at games is that the crowd is 50/50 men and women. And that’s females of all nationalities.”
“It was jovial and fun, and I think because of the way the game panned out with England getting on top so quickly, it wasn’t particularly raucous and didn’t have that intensity.” “The cost of living here is like living in London. Rents are high, food is expensive, the cost of alcohol is high but that was the case anyway: they haven’t just raised the prices for the World Cup.”
How has Qatar, a country not famed for its love of football, taken to hosting the game’s biggest showpiece? “The nationalities you see at games are people from Qatar, lots of different Arab nations, a lot of Indians, fans from Egypt – countries that aren’t all taking part but their people are embracing it.
“I saw no problems with anyone attending the England game not being able to buy alcohol at the ground. I think the cost of attending this World Cup means that you are less likely to get problems than you would if it were in Europe.
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