Hello Hive Friends how are you today ?, i hope you are doing great.
Today i want to make a post about my experience when i watch a Football match at Football Stadium in North Aceh, Indonesia. Besides i want to share the atmosphere inside the stadium, so stay tuned.
Today I had the opportunity to watch a football match at a stadium in northern Aceh, Indonesia. Luckily it wasn't a league game or any other major competition, so they didn't take tickets for this match. While watching, I also want to see the atmosphere in the stadium because there are different stadiums, so the atmosphere is different.
In this stadium, there was also a division 3 Indonesian League match which was an official match. I think that with such a big match, this stadium is showing its worthiness for other important matches.
This is the entrance of the stadium. This stadium has an outside parking lot around the stadium, we can park the vehicle freely here, usually in the afternoon a lot of people johting around this stadium because of the large size of the place.
The stadium has many special entrances, but for spectators and teams, they are required to use these entrances.
The atmosphere around the stadium is also very clean, and there is no doubt that this stadium is sometimes chosen for important matches because it already meets stadium standards in Indonesia.
I entered the stadium through this entrance hall, it can be seen that there is an iron door there which is the security of this stadium. I think this passage will feel cramped if many people enter at once, and this entrance leads directly to the VIP area in the stadium.
This is the outside of the stadium, and the doors on the sides are the equipment rooms and rooms for storing the important attributes of this stadium.
And this is the soccer field. They had just started the match when I just arrived, and I immediately took my place to watch.
Inside the stadium it was very quiet because this was not an official match, just a normal inter-club match which was held every afternoon as a form of joint training. The players descended on the field through another gate which was located directly below where I was standing. I think the stands for the reserve players and the official team are also located below, unfortunately not just anyone can enter the field area and only the competing teams and their officials. To play in this stadium, we have to rent it first, I think that's reasonable because they need maintenance fees when we finish playing, especially when the field is damaged after the game.
This is how the stands are. They use elongated wood for seating, very simple and not very expensive to maintain. The stadium is also still in the development process, and will be optimized again later.
The fans can directly see the match from up here very freely, you can see the audience and supporters there.
I didn't forget to take selfies too, my hair is a little messy because I was just jogging before I watched the football game.
If you look behind me, it's the commentator's room as well as the audio and electronics of this stadium, of course it's sealed shut and no one is allowed in except the stadium administrator. They can also monitor the atmosphere of the match from up there through the windshield of the room.
I think this stadium is still very possible to be developed again, like they could replace the wood and put seats all over the stadium, but it takes time and also the sponsors who contributed a little money for the renewal. Of course after many updates made to make the stadium better, we can no longer play or even enjoy games like this and they won't give access to just anyone. But I think with the stadium's condition, we can play and watch the game comfortably, and low cost to enter and watching match in the Stadium, that's the most important thing.
The size of the field in this stadium is very wide, even where the official stands are still very wide behind the boundaries of the field. I think they can build a very decent bench and official stands later by utilizing those off the pitch. The grass that is neatly arranged is also a distinct advantage of this stadium, indeed the quality of the grass used is far from FIFA standards, because considering the maintenance costs are very expensive, it is better for them to use low quality grass but it is arranged and cared for properly.
FYI :
The grass used on most Football Fields in Indonesia is usually AC (Axonopus Compressus) type, which is usually a type of grass that has good roots and is not easily damaged when exposed to sharp soccer shoe soles and can grip very well. However, this type of grass is far from FIFA standards because the level of elasticity and density when the ball rolls is very small and can cause a large frictional force on the ball.
And the match ended at 18:30 the officials and players entered the dressing room under the stands and headed straight out of the room. After the match is over, all equipment and attributes and even player jerseys are collected in one place and will be counted and recorded again, this is done in order to avoid errors that occur in attributes and equipment. All equipment and attributes are stored in the room beside the entrance hall that I described earlier, and the room will be re-opened when it is necessary to retrieve the equipment the next day. Balls and referee whistles are also stored here.
Especially for clothes, they will do the laundry first before they are stored
Officials and players exit through the main door and the administrators will close the door when they are all outside the Stadium.
Maybe this is a little story and also a stadium review while watching the match live at the stadium. See you in another post.
