Three Argentine merchants
yesterday retrieved their missing World Cup tickets that one of them left at an
airport bank last week.
Majlis Diego
(center) and his two friends show off their missing World Cup tickets they
retrieved at the Pudong International Airport yesterday. Diego lost the
tickets when he arrived at the airport on June 8.[Shanghai
Daily] |
That enabled them to attend today's game in Germany between their country and
Serbia and Montenegro.
The Shanghai Daily and another local newspaper, Xinmin Evening News, had
published stories on Wednesday, reporting the valuable tickets found at a bank
at the Pudong International Airport.
The man who left the tickets behind, Majlis Diego, showed up at the airport
with his two Argentine friends yesterday morning, after his Chinese friends in
Yiwu, neighboring Zhejiang Province, read news of the missing tickets in the
Xinmin newspaper and informed them their tickets were still at the airport.
The three Argentine merchants were in China for a business trip in Yiwu.
They had planned to fly from Shanghai yesterday to Germany to watch the
Friday match and cheer for their national soccer team.
While Diego's two friends arrived in Shanghai earlier than him and went to
Yiwu, Diego landed in the city by Lufthansa airline on June 8.
Diego left a briefcase at a counter during a money check at the airport bank.
The briefcase contained two World Cup tickets for his two friends as well as
an envelope with about 2,000 euros (US$2,526) inside.
The World Cup tickets had the names of the spectators. Diego didn't lose his
own ticket in the incident, however.
Diego said his two Argentine friends almost "wanted to kill him" when
learning of the missing tickets, while feeling sorry for his property loss.
Diego and his friends had reported to the local Customs of the loss
immediately as well as alerting police in Yiwu.
Diego received his property and his friends' tickets from the bank officials
at the airport early yesterday morning.
They left by a 10am flight to Germany yesterday. The game was to start at
3pm, German local time, in Gelsenkirchen.
"Thank you. I love Shanghai now," Diego said to the port police officers when
checking out with his happy friends.
