Angry over Malaysia match tickets, Hai Phong fans threaten to "storm" My Dinh stadium

In recent days, information about the 2018 AFF Cup tickets between the Vietnamese and Malaysian teams has become a hot topic on social networks. Netizens have been discussing, from staying up all night to queue up to buy tickets, being inflated by ticket brokers to the sky-high prices, or most recently, who are the 16,000 invitation tickets distributed to by the VFF?

Faced with the ticket fever, many fan groups have come up with contingency plans for their members not being allowed to enter the stadium to cheer. They are ready to say no to the VFF if the highest body of Vietnamese football does not have a satisfactory answer.

Information on a Hai Phong Fan Club Fanpage.

However, with a fan club with personality like Hai Phong, it is different. In the past, Hai Phong fans were made difficult by Hang Day Stadium's organizers when they increased ticket prices many times, but they were willing to pay a large sum of money to be able to enter the stadium.

According to information from the Hai Phong Fan Club Fanpage, there will be about 1,000 Hai Phong fans who can afford to buy tickets for the Vietnam - Malaysia match and even hinted that they will bring flares into My Dinh National Stadium.

A fan, believed to be from Hai Phong, declared on Facebook to protest the VFF's ticket distribution: "We don't have money to buy black market tickets, but we are ready to send 50 flares for the next match, which is prohibited for spectators. For the next match, VFF will issue enough 40,000 tickets. Let's form a flare team on November 16."

Not long ago, the Asian Football Confederation imposed a fine of up to 12,500 USD on VFF because a fan set off flares during the match between Vietnam Olympic and Korea Olympic at the 2018 Asian Games. Remember in 2017, AFC fined VFF 10,000 USD because a Vietnamese fan set off flares at the Cambodian National Stadium in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers (Cambodia 1 – 2 Vietnam).

AFC also warned that if Vietnamese fans re-offend in international matches, they will be punished more severely and in fact, they have increased the fine for the recent incident. Therefore, if flares are set off at My Dinh on November 16, VFF will certainly be punished with increased fines, even banned from the field, and the ones who will suffer will be Coach Park Hang Seo and his team and the true fans./.

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