Los Angeles – Jeroen Olthof of San Diego made a last-minute decision Thursday evening to buy a ticket for the next day’s World Cup match in Los Angeles, taking advantage of a drop in prices after the United States was eliminated from the tournament this week.
He woke up at 2:30 a.m. Friday, walked to a nearby station, and boarded a train for Los Angeles, where Spain and Belgium were set to play. There, at Union Station, he took a bus to SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, part of the region’s expanded tournament transit options.
Three hours before the game, he was taking in the scene from the concourse. “They were pretty organized,” Olthof, 54, said of his public transit experience. “Lined us right up.”
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