Mohammed Abdullateef, a soccer fan in Qatar, has amassed one of the largest collections of historic World Cup tickets in the world.
“It was difficult,” he remembered, “to get a ticket.”than Abdullateef, whose collection numbers 1,200 and counting. He has tickets to all but one World Cup game played since 1958. For the inaugural tournament in 1930, when tickets were sold in three categories, he has all three, plus an Associated Press media credential.
“I still have this ticket,” said Abdullateef, a telecom engineer and political cartoonist. “But I never thought about collecting tickets. I was collecting books. I like to read about the World Cup.” Abdullateef said collecting most World Cup memorabilia, especially tickets, would be all but impossible without the internet. His original plan was to collect just one ticket from each of the 21 tournaments, but as more and more tickets became available, he decided to expand his search to include at least one ticket from all 900 World Cup matches.Mohammed Abdullateef’s collection includes this Associated Press media pass from the first World Cup.
Melodia began collecting as a boy 35 years ago, after a friend gave him a Manchester United ticket. He started with English club games, but because his family traveled extensively, his focus quickly expanded. Four years ago Melodia, a retired police officer, gathered his collection in book form in “World Cup Tickets 1930-2018.”collection is missing 19 games, many from the 1950 tournament in Brazil, when games were played far from the major population centers of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Still, some tickets can fetch high prices. The Holy Grail of World Cup collectibles is a ticket from the 1934 final in Rome. Only three or four tickets to that game are believed to exist and Melodia and Abdullateef each have one; the Qatari’s is signed by three Italians who played in the game. The ticket cost 60 lira in 1934; Abdullateef said he bought it on eBay for $5,800, which he considers a steal.
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