8th Division Marine FC’s’Virtual Tickets’ sold 30,000 copies and earned 450 million won
17-year-old Divine, Tottenham’s youngest and youngest FA Cup scored
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Bo-in = England’s professional football team Tottenham and 8th Division Marine FC’s match against England Football Association (FA) Cup 3rd round was definitely a’competition’, but a little joy arose from it.
Tottenham won 5-0 in the 3rd round of the 2020-2021 FA Cup (Round of 64) against Marine FC held at the Marine Travel Arena in Crosby, Merseyside, UK on the 11th (Korean time).
The meeting of the first part professional team and the amateur team, which included players working as plumbers and teachers, attracted the interest of football fans even before the game started.
A whopping 3,697 copies of the’virtual ticket’ sold by the Marine FC club with a 3,185 seat spectator seat before the game were sold.
In the aftermath of the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the game was held without spectators, and it was not possible to actually enter the stadium.
Marine FC, which made about 300,000 pounds (450 million won) of revenue from ticket sales, was able to make up for the financial losses caused by Corona 19.
There are also benefits to virtual ticket buyers.
The club gives the winner the opportunity to lead the team in the next preseason friendly match by drawing.
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During the game, Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp appeared outside the stadium and attracted attention.
Fans who couldn’t be’intuitive’ in the stands watched the game outside the stadium, and one of them came with coach Klopp’s life-size.
Liverpool and Everton are neighbors based in Marine FC and the surrounding area.
It is known that the two clubs competing with Tottenham in the English Premier League (EPL) did not spare support, such as providing training venues for Marine FC ahead of the’historic match’.
On the ground, Tottenham’s Delhi Ali performed a’body gag’.
In the 33rd minute of the first half, during Tottenham’s attack, Ali suddenly lost his balance and fell and rolled back.
He got up right away as if nothing had happened, and he showed a splendid smile, and Son Heung-min and Sergio Regilon, who watched it on the bench, couldn’t hide the bursting laughter.
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Gareth Bale even made a gesture of drawing a yellow card with a smile.
There were also meaningful records.
Tottenham’s Alfie Divine, at the age of 16 years and 163 days, scored a debut goal following the youngest debut match in the club’s history.
Divine was put on the ground at the beginning of the second half and made their first team debut, and in the 15th minute of the second half, he scored the debut goal by scoring Lucas Mora’s hill pass.
According to statistics website Opta, Divine broke the record set by George Williams against MK Dons-Nantwich in 2011 (16 years and 66 days) and became the youngest scorer in the history of the FA Cup.
After the game, Marine FC players wanted to exchange their uniforms with Tottenham players, but they could not do so according to the Corona 19 quarantine regulations.
Instead, the Tottenham team prepared new uniforms for the players and presented them to the marine team, ending the match warmly.
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2021/01/11 12:56 sent