the media reported that only 98 were sold on day one and 324 till Friday, the hosts association was tight-lipped to give figures after three days' counter sales.
Only a handful of people, mostly journalists, gathered to watch the practice of a low profile West Indies team led by Darren Sammy.
In fact, at the adjacent Mohun Bagan ground, there were more spectators in numbers to watch the local football heavyweights train in the morning.
For a stadium that had witnessed a crowd of 80,000-plus turn out during the epic India-Australia 2001 Test, the historical Eden Gardens on Monday wore a sorry figure with less than 10,000 filling in on the opening day of the India-West Indies second Test.
With Sachin Tendulkar's impending 100th international century, being the only attraction against West Indians, the Eden had a vacant look with less than 1,000 turning up at the start.
Incidentally, the Eden Gardens that hosted its third international match in the last 20 days had witnessed something similar earlier.
In India's ODI against England on October 25, only 27,000 were in attendance, lowest for a match involving the home team.
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or is it gonna be a empty house.. wonder if AIFF even advertised these friendlies anywhere?
I don't think so. The Salt Lake Stadium will be filled up. It won't be a full 120,000 but maybe 60,000-80,000 people I can guess. Kolkata is a very football loving city and as years go by football has been slowly gaining power over cricket in Kolkata so I expect a great crowd.
Kolkata will never let down football. Long live football in Kolkata.
On 13th November Malaysia also played Cambodia in SEA games. How come? Is it that they play U23 teams in SEA? Will this affect the FIFA Rankings?
as u doubted....sea games is played by u-23 players and not by main squad....so it doesnt come under category of international match....so our friendly is gonna be counted for sure for the rankings.....
the media reported that only 98 were sold on day one and 324 till Friday, the hosts association was tight-lipped to give figures after three days' counter sales.
Only a handful of people, mostly journalists, gathered to watch the practice of a low profile West Indies team led by Darren Sammy.
In fact, at the adjacent Mohun Bagan ground, there were more spectators in numbers to watch the local football heavyweights train in the morning.
For a stadium that had witnessed a crowd of 80,000-plus turn out during the epic India-Australia 2001 Test, the historical Eden Gardens on Monday wore a sorry figure with less than 10,000 filling in on the opening day of the India-West Indies second Test.
With Sachin Tendulkar's impending 100th international century, being the only attraction against West Indians, the Eden had a vacant look with less than 1,000 turning up at the start.
Incidentally, the Eden Gardens that hosted its third international match in the last 20 days had witnessed something similar earlier.
In India's ODI against England on October 25, only 27,000 were in attendance, lowest for a match involving the home team.
WIll kolkata show more love to Indian Football NT ? <!-- s:think: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/think.gif" alt=":think:" title="Think" /><!-- s:think: -->
or is it gonna be a empty house.. wonder if AIFF even advertised these friendlies anywhere?
I don't think so. The Salt Lake Stadium will be filled up. It won't be a full 120,000 but maybe 60,000-80,000 people I can guess. Kolkata is a very football loving city and as years go by football has been slowly gaining power over cricket in Kolkata so I expect a great crowd.
60,000 - 80,000.. even 30,000 would be great... I think Salt Lake attracts 60-80k only for EB-MB derby..
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Kolkata will never let down football. Long live football in Kolkata.
60,000 - 80,000.. even 30,000 would be great... I think Salt Lake attracts 60-80k only for EB-MB derby..