Just received this email, pretty depressing that it says sales are lower than expected. I've got a group of 10 tickets, but we need to make a final push to fill up this stadium for a nationally televised game! Anyone have the exact # of tickets sold so far? email: Dear Soccer Enthusiast: MLS needs dedicated soccer enthusiasts like you. Ticket sales for this year's all star game are lower than anticipated, but there is still time to make plans to attend. You can order tickets today to be left at the Will Call window, or go to RFK stadium on game day and buy tickets there. To order online with NO ADDITIONAL fees other than the ticket price: https://www.hotstat.com/estore/dcorder_tickets.cfm Ticket Prices: Spectator Level - $27 each, no other fees Premium Level - $35 each, no other fees VIP Level - SOLD OUT Mezzanine Level - SOLD OUT What: MLS All Star Game featuring the US Men's National Team vs. The best of MLS When: Saturday, August 3rd, 2002, 3:30 kick off Where: RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, USA US Men's National Team Roster: Agoos, Jeff Burns, Mike Beasley, DaMarcus Deering, Chad Donovan, Landon Harkes, John Henderson, Chris Jones, Cobi Lalas, Alexi Llamosa, Carlos Maisonneuve, Brian Mastroeni, Pablo McBride, Brian Meola, Tony Pope, Eddie Preki Sommer, Juergen Wolff, Josh MLS Roster: Tim Howard Ryan Suarez Mike Petke Carlos Bocanegra Richard Mulrooney Steve Ralston Carlos Valderrama Mark Chung Dema Kovalenko Carlos Ruiz Taylor Twellman Joe Cannon Wade Barrett Chris Klein Ariel Graziani Jason Kreis Marco Etcheverry Joselito Vaca Enjoy the game! ----------------------------- To be removed from this email list of soccer enthusiasts, send an email from this address to "imailsrv@demosphere.com" with the subject line blank, and with "Unsubscribe_soccerwire" as the only word in the body of the message or click here (be sure to send from the address used to send you this message):
what really is lower than expected The question is.. did MLS expect to sell 50,000 tickets and only have sold 25,000? or did they expect to sell 30,000 tickets and have only sold 16k? I myself know of 16 people going. if you go on ticketmaster.com and try for the $35 tickets.. if you want 4 or more, you are already in the far corner sections. Usually they sell the seats from the middle of the field outward. my guess is still that the lower bowl will be full. Stunna
last night on the webcast the announcer mentioned a few times that they had to open some additional sections due to demand... not sure how reliable that is.
If they open additional sections, I think our "sell-out" level is something like 26,000. I don't remember the exact statistic, but it's the whole bottom bowl, the mezzanine/club level, and those few sections they sell in the top deck on the quiet side. So, if they had to open new sections (and it shows mezzanine/club as sold out), then they must be going through the pink seats upstairs. They might even make it into the yellow seats.
mlsnet lists our "soccer capacity" as 26,169. I thought I had seen that somewhere. So, opening new sections would seem to mean that the first 26,169 tickets have already been sold.
I will be going to the pre game stuff tomorrow, but I find it hard to get enthusiastic over an all star game. I have not grown up with All-star games so maybe I do not really understand. When I pay to see a game I at least want it to be competitive. Can someone enlighten me?
Re: vote Dude, that's MSNBC! MSNBC gave a paragraph to soccer! Ladies and gentlemen, the planets are slowly shifting.
I talked to Bobby Goldwater earlier in the week and he said they were looking at 25-30k. When I bought my block of 9 seats early last week, we couldn't get them together in the lower bowl on the sides, so we went upper deck and there was no problem getting them seated together there. With walk up crowd, I'll predict 30k.