We've heard of people collecting postage stamps, but have you ever heard of a match ticket collector?
It is a true story of some fans who came to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar to watch the matches and collect tickets from the fans.
Usually, you find these people standing at the exits of the Qatar World Cup stadiums or even at the metro stations after the matches, holding banners showing that they collect tickets from the fans, and with the banners you find them holding some match tickets as evidence that some of the fans have met their request.
Al-Jazeera Net interviewed two ticket collectors outside Al-Thumama Stadium after the end of the France-Poland match, which ended in favor of France 3-1, but they refused to speak or even mention their names, and one of them refused to just film it.
The person we photographed - a forty-year-old wearing a shirt with the 2002 World Cup Korea and Japan logo written on it, and holding a sign requesting tickets written in Arabic and English - contented himself with saying that he collects World Cup tickets "for remembrance."
And one of the fans who happened to pass by narrated that he saw a fan wearing a Belgium shirt collecting match tickets as well, and the fan says that some of them collect them as a hobby for memory only, but others have purposes that may be commercial by reselling them to collectors of things associated with great memories such as the World Cup.