Copa ‘24: Should Have Been a Yellow
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Colombia (or Venezuela) big soccer match in South Florida (or Mexico in AZ, TX) in July is a recipe for disaster
When the get-in price of the game is in 4 figures, you have to expect people are going to try to force their way in. Have to be ready for it.
That wasn't happening anyway, word is the halftime show is like 25-30 minutes.
No chance it's postponed. They'll pretend they cleared out the people who entered without a ticket, when in reality they got a small percentage of them.
This was a predictable and preventable problem, but the solution was too rich for CONMEBOL.
This was a predictable and preventable problem, but the solution was too rich for CONMEBOL.
This stinks of poor planning and lack of preparation
View: https://twitter.com/herculezg/status/1812644728070172927?s=46&t=XvGOrrWIyL-5CHVVL_0JYQ
View: https://twitter.com/herculezg/status/1812644728070172927?s=46&t=XvGOrrWIyL-5CHVVL_0JYQ
Pushed back to 9:15pm now. Absolute cluster fuck.
View: https://twitter.com/normcharlatan/status/1812644728396992650?s=46&t=GfuLFvTYcOxcFiCZjyIYZw
View: https://twitter.com/normcharlatan/status/1812644728396992650?s=46&t=GfuLFvTYcOxcFiCZjyIYZw
This tournament has hurt the perception for that about as much as it's helped it in the end, if not more so.
It's gonna be relatively low-key and leaked rather than put out there in statements because the USSF and CONCACAF need the collaboration with CONMEBOL to continue as UEFA gets more and more insular, but I imagine there are gonna be some anonymous source stories throwing CONMEBOL furiously under the bus for this one, and probably some from them doing it in the US direction as well.
You know the US federation isn't in charge though, right? The people in charge of ticketing and security for this aren't the ones that will be doing it in 2 years.
The US has hosted big events before.
I've worked on the venue side of special sporting events and concerts, and this is all squarely on CONMEBOL. They rent the venues and demand full control over everything, from the grass to the gates. (US Soccer is the same way.)
If they try and hang this on the venue, I'm sure there's a VP of Stadium Ops somewhere just itching to leak the email from CONMEBOL about not wanting to pay more for extra barricades, staff, and crowd-control procedures, etc.
If they try and hang this on the venue, I'm sure there's a VP of Stadium Ops somewhere just itching to leak the email from CONMEBOL about not wanting to pay more for extra barricades, staff, and crowd-control procedures, etc.
View: https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1812652747499401255?t=AVilfztUZPYy1NAj3UabBQ&s=19
Overcrowding in stadium now seems to be a concern. Stands appear to be stuffed to the gills. @FavianRenkel reporting fans are arriving at seats only to find fans already there, but security informing them that there is nothing to be done.
Gillette will be fine. It will be case by case depending on venue and participants in said venue.
View: https://twitter.com/favianrenkel/status/1812653437047456247?s=46
This game needs to be canceled. Its not safe for anyone. Players included.
Let’s not act like the U.S. is special in having an issue with a big game. CL Final was a similar shitshow a couple years ago.
Obviously better to not have something like this happen, of course.
Obviously better to not have something like this happen, of course.
2nd worst part about this (after children being trampled) is we get to hear more Alexi Lalas
Yup. I’ve been at that VIp Suites entrance before. (Close to good tailgating)
It never has a lot of security. But Fins games and orange bowls (southern folk-most are great) are different
The fanatcism for Conmebol fans is totally different
what a clusterfuck....
so is the bottom line something like:
1: some gate crashers
2: security stupidly responds by shutting all gates except one
3: huge pile up of fans, with kids being crushed (I even saw a little dog running around in one of the short videos on Twitter)
so is the bottom line something like:
1: some gate crashers
2: security stupidly responds by shutting all gates except one
3: huge pile up of fans, with kids being crushed (I even saw a little dog running around in one of the short videos on Twitter)
Unless im
Getting senile, For football games there is security way before ticket checking. For tailgating. Large perimeter
Not sure how this is.
It can’t be possible that Hard Rock stadium management just signs off on completely turning over all logistics to another group, can it? That makes zero sense.
Based on personal experience, the venue has a baseline deployment for staff, security, gates, etc. That's what is included in the rental agreement.
Then they'll rely on the promoter and organizer's experience to scale accordingly for the size and makeup of the crowd, but all of the added costs come out of the organizer's end.
Interesting. So in this case, the Dolphins pay for “extra” on their game days, Live Nation pays “extra” for concerts they promote their, etc?
seems like the base deployment shouldn’t be in danger of being insufficient if the renter cheaps out.
Probably not the Dolphins, since they own it, but concerts and other special events, yes.
And as mentioned upthread, soccer in particular is very different when it comes to levels of control. US Soccer went so far as to have our ticket windows use a specific VISA-branded mousepad when they played a friendly at our venue.
