Indian Hockey Federation - In Shambles
There have been various pieces or writings in local media about apathy of IHF towards players both men and women. New angle to it is sort of in-fighting between sports bodies. On the other hand, there are claims coming out about stadiums getting ready and millions of tax payers' money being spent to renovate these. Amidst all this, I decided to try my luck hoping to find out the agency to reach to buy tickets for upcoming world cup in Delhi, India. So, I typed "Hockey World Cup ticket" on google. Results as expected were disappointing with no link to an official agency. I tried to search for the website for IHF itself but all I could get hold of was a link whose homepage displayed "Under Construction" (http://www.indiahockey.org/).
I was amazed and shocked to see that the most important body associated with the sport in a country of more than One billion people did not have a functional web-site even.
A little later, doing more searches on google, I finally reached a page which listed a phone number of Delhi Office of IHF. I decided to try my luck but person on the other line could only manage to give me another local phone number after putting me on hold for good 30 seconds.
I called the number provided but the lady on the other side gave me another phone number to call. I was hoping for it to end somewhere. SO I called the new number provided. Initially, running past the automated answering system, the call finally ended with an abrupt end with no response from the other side. After an hour, I re-tried, but got modem tone this time. I was ready to tear my hair off but then I think I am going to try again ... Never say Die!!! Chakde India!
I was amazed and shocked to see that the most important body associated with the sport in a country of more than One billion people did not have a functional web-site even.
A little later, doing more searches on google, I finally reached a page which listed a phone number of Delhi Office of IHF. I decided to try my luck but person on the other line could only manage to give me another local phone number after putting me on hold for good 30 seconds.
I called the number provided but the lady on the other side gave me another phone number to call. I was hoping for it to end somewhere. SO I called the new number provided. Initially, running past the automated answering system, the call finally ended with an abrupt end with no response from the other side. After an hour, I re-tried, but got modem tone this time. I was ready to tear my hair off but then I think I am going to try again ... Never say Die!!! Chakde India!
posted by BlahBlahBlogBlog | 2:28 am
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Finally, some movement seen! As per latest media reports, tickets will soon be available (Feb 12 onwards). But the comedy continues! The online channel for tickets, ticketgenie.com was "Under Maintenance" :-). Best of luck HOCKEY!!!
Last Saturday, I tried to get my hands on the tickets by visiting Cafe Coffee Day outlets in CP area. At both the outlets, I was told that they have no information about them selling tickets for the event. Later on, I also visited National Stadium where the matches are to take place. Again none of the guards at the gate knew from where I can buy the tickets. There were no signs, etc. As expected, complete chaos. But what is repulsive is to see that the whole stadium looked completely "down the drain". Construction work was going on all around, with water logged at various places. Just a couple of weeks away from staging such a presigious event, it looked as if it is not ready to host even school teams' meet. Really shabby and sloppy work, IHF and other involved authorities. I wonder what those ads mean on TV when celebrities ask the common man to come and watch it in stadium. Idea is great but the problem is that there is literally no stadium and no clue about where one can get hold of the tickets from.
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