VietNamNet Bridge – After the impressive victory of the national football team in Thailand on Wednesday, the prices for tickets of the second-leg final match on Sunday in Hanoi have soared by four to six times the normal face values.

On these days, one can see scores of ticket black marketers standing along Trinh Hoai Duc Road or My Dinh National Stadium to seek ticket buyers. Any motorbike runs across these roads are invited to buy tickets.

However, the prices have shot up to VND 3 million (US $176) for two tickets with face prices of VND 600,000 (US $35) and higher.

Tuan Minh, a employee of a telecom company, who bought two tickets for VND 3 million, said: “It is so expensive! But I still bought them immediately because I think the prices would increase further. This morning, a colleague of mine bought two tickets of the same type at VND 2 million only. I’m busy so until now I came here to buy tickets”.

The black market prices are increasing hour by hour at the black market on Trinh Hoai Duc Road. In the morning of Thursday, December 25, the price for a pair of tickets was four times more than the face price and it was five times at noon, to seven to ten times in the afternoon.

According to a ticket trader, she can provide as many as tickets on the demand of fans. Despite the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Vietnam Football Development (VFD) company’s effort to sell tickets directly to fans, ticket traders on the black market still have their own ways to collect tickets.

(Source: VNE)