JAKARTA - Japanese football club Tokyo Verdy has a unique way to promote ticket sales for their matches in the Japanese League 2 or J2 League. The club, which is based in Tokyo, promotes ticket sales by including batik elements.
Through the club's official website and uploads on Instagram stories, Tokyo Verdy informed that fans can get tickets for the match against Vegalta Sendai for May 4, 2022. Not only providing information, the posters that were distributed also looked different from usual.
The reason is, the ticket sales poster shows photos of Tokyo Verdy players such as Pratama Arhan, Mizuki Arai, Ryoga Sato, Tsiga Ishiura, Boniface Nduka, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, and Ryota Kajikawa who look cool in batik shirts.
The players, who are mostly oriental-looking, look dashing and sweet in batik shirts of various colors and motifs. Meanwhile, Arhan from Indonesia looks more handsome.
It was later discovered that Tokyo Verdy's unusual promotion method in promoting tickets with batik elements turned out to be one of the Indonesia Festival agendas. The festival was deliberately held to introduce Indonesian culture in Japan.
Cooperation between Indonesia and Japan, especially in the field of sports, was marked by the joining of Pratama Arhan from PSIS Semarang to Tokyo Verdy.
After that moment, the closeness of the two countries got better as seen from Indonesian netizens who were busy following the Tokyo Verdy account. Arhan's presence in this team has also succeeded in making local fans more curious about Indonesian culture.
Apart from Tokyo Verdy's unique way of promoting ticket sales for nearby matches, they also divide ticket sales into several categories. The first category is sold with prices starting at 500 or around IDR 57 thousand to the highest priced up to 6,650 yen or around IDR 770 thousand.
Currently, Tokyo Verdy has managed to occupy second place in the 2022 J2 League standings. They have collected 18 points from nine matches or are four points behind the leaders Yokohama.
The points were collected by Tokyo Verdy through five wins, three draws and one defeat from nine matches. Before playing the match against Vegalta, the team with the dominance of green will first play the J2 League match against Renofa Yamaguchi on 17 April.
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