Ticket prices for Lionel Messi’s possible Inter Miami debut exceed $1,000 on online sales platforms after club owner Jorge Mas mentioned the July 21 match on DVR PNK Stadium against the Mexican Cruz Azul as a possible date of its premiere.
Inter Miami is sunk in the last position in the East of the MLS and has six consecutive defeats, but the enthusiasm in the city is maximum and the expectation for the arrival of Messi, who will be able to join his new club on July 5, He shot up the prices of all the team’s matches until the end of the season.
A few minutes after the announcement of the signing of Messi, which arrived on June 7, the price of tickets for the Leagues Cup match between Inter Miami and Cruz Azul went from around $40 to over $500, but now there are no more tickets for less than 1,100 dollars on the resale platform ‘Vivid Seats’.
On the ‘SeatGeek’ platform, the cheapest ticket sold for $1,060 on Wednesday morning, while on ‘GameTime’, tickets sold for a minimum of $1,030.
The DVR PNK Stadium, located in Fort Lauderdale, some fifty kilometers from Miami, has a capacity for 19,000 spectators and the club plans to carry out some works in the next four weeks to increase it to 22,000.
Still, many tickets are being resold for figures in excess of $10,000.
And it is that, although it is unlikely that Messi will debut before July 21, there was also a notable increase in prices for the game on June 15 in the Saint Louis field, with the cheapest tickets on sale for more than 140 Dollars.
All Inter Miami matches until the end of this season have skyrocketing prices and, for example, a seat at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles to watch LAFC-Inter Miami on September 3 costs a minimum of $400. .