Don’t have your tickets yet for upcoming Inter Miami soccer games? You might have a hard time scoring tickets amid all the excitement of soccer star Lionel Messi’s plans to join the team.
On Wednesday, the news broke that the soccer icon plans to join the team. As of early Wednesday afternoon, only seats for a July 1 game at DRV PNK stadium in Fort Lauderdale were still available on Ticketmaster, starting at $34 each.
There was little luck for the July 25 game: The only types of tickets left were resale seats going for $1,450 or $1,500 each.
No seats were available beyond that: “On sale date and time are in the works — please check back!” reads the TicketMaster website. A spokesperson for Inter Miami did not respond to requests for comment.
Soccer enthusiast Diego De Rose, 45, said when he saw rumblings on Twitter back in January about the Inter Miami “being one of the possible places he would go,” it caught his attention.
De Rose decided he had better act before it was too late and decided “you know what, I’m going to get season tickets as an investment just in case it happens.”
He said it was just a “hopeful thing,” and plunked down $1,200 for two season tickets.
“The seats are decent, not the best, not terrible either.”
When the news unfolded Wednesday, his friends were hitting him up for the spare.
“They aren’t as direct as ‘take me to a game,’ but ‘You still have your tickets, right?'”
“It’s definitely a good sports day for South Florida.”
Lisa J. Huriash can be reached at lhuriash@sunsentinel.com. Follow on Twitter @LisaHuriash
