Man with tickets for 50 matches pleads for more at Argentina-saudi game

While the excitement for Argentina's first match in the Qatar World Cup reached fever pitch at the Lusail Stadium on Tuesday, there was one fan who was making a peculiar demand at the gates.

Armed with tickets for 50 matches in Qatar, Clifton Broumand came all the way from Washington DC, USA.

And yet he was making a plea to the hordes of fans entering the stadium for the match: ‘Can I buy one or two tickets please for the match'?

Broumand did have match tickets for the Argentina-saudi Arabia game.

But he wanted to buy tickets for two of his friends, Paul and Omar.

“I have got tickets for 50 matches in Qatar. This is my 11th World Cup. I had tickets for the first match and I have also got the ticket for the final,” he told this reporter.

This was not his first attempt at buying tickets at the gates on a match day of a World Cup. “I have been doing this for many, years, in many many World Cups. I have been doing this since the 1990 Italy World Cup,” he said.

“I have been highly successful in buying tickets at the gates on match days. There have been only two games that I have failed in. One in Germany and one in Italy. Otherwise, I got them all,” said Broumand who also claimed to have bought tickets for the England-iran game on Monday.