The problems started last year when the government informed the fans – in the context of the supposed measures against fan violence – that an electronic ticket is no longer enough to enter the stadiums, but identification on the Gov.gr Wallet platform, which must everyone to download to their mobile for their ticket to be valid. In fact, through if. Minister of Sports Yiannis Vroutsis, the rulers also gave a deadline, repeating in strict tones that the lies are over and that the new measure will come into effect from April 1st.
But what measure? Neither identification nor Gov.gr Wallet, nothing worked because there were many technical problems on the platform. But in order not to make it appear that they fell into yet another blunder, the deadline was changed and through the mouth of Vroutsis it became “until the end of the competition season, the old measure for entering the stadiums will apply to the entrance of the fans”, in order allegedly to get used to the identification of each sports fan. As if the new one was working…
We are now talking about “Greece 2.0”, which… is leading the 4th industrial revolution, about Greece which the sleazy media wrote two years ago that the Japanese (who? The Japanese!) “asked the technology expert, the Minister of Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakishis expertise”!
Suffering
Well, the previous matchday of the football league, the undersigned had the bright idea of going to the field with his son. I took out the membership card, took out the tickets, downloaded the Gov.gr Wallet application on my mobile phone, declared the tickets with the barcodes and on the day of the match we started for the stadium. Although we arrived an hour before kick-off, there was chaos outside the gates with lines of fans trying to get into the stadium. Why? Because the scanners did not read the barcodes of the tickets from the Gov.gr Wallet and blocked the entrance! Panic, irritation, insults in any case with the first recipient being G. Vroutsis and then the current Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou as well as other “brains” of the government. So my son went in first, I put my own ticket on the screen and he didn’t read it. The security guards at the gates tried in vain to help people. One inside and one outside in families and groups. Nerves, anxiety, jitters. Meanwhile the child was inside and I was outside. Like half the families in and the other half out. The security guards would send you to one of their security guards, you would explain the problem to him and he would refer you to the ticket offices of the stadium for help. Chaos there too, with a huge queue of people whose codes didn’t go through the scanners. Again details, IDs, checking your ticket in Gov.gr Wallet, etc. and finally they printed a barcode on paper and with it you returned to the long queue outside the door, with the child waiting for half an hour (along with some other children and adults next to a policeman) for his own person to return!
Of course, I was one of the “lucky” ones, because the help desks were ten meters from the door. Think of others who circled the field to reach the crowd and back again? What can we say? That because of the inconvenience, up to a quarter of the way from the start of the match, people were entering? Again, it’s good to say that the most helpful employees of the stadium were there, trying to help in any way they could.
On another port
The next day, talking to friends, I learned that the same thing happens in all the stadiums, as for example in AEK Arena, where many Union fans struggled to enter the stadium during the match against Lamia. There was even a testimony from a fan of the “two-headed” (I.M.) that after they struggled to get in, his friend tried his luck at an adjacent door and the barcode went through!
We don’t know what will be fixed, if it will be fixed or when, but it all looks like they want to drive people away from the stadiums by putting them through so much trouble. And as much as Mr. Vroutsis wants to praise himself, it would be good if he told us which electronic platform the “excellent” of his government have opened so far and did not sow chaos. Remember the joke with Webex and distance learning or the farce with IDs?
And one last thing to the “brains” of the identification-fiasco, in case they get a little worried: if a parent wants to go to the stadium with their child who has autism or Down syndrome or someone suffers from panic attacks and the child goes in and he stays from the outside, do you know what might happen, what might be the consequences?
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