AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- You want ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- You want mustard onward that ticket?

The merely place to buy a ticket for today's Israel-Andorra European Championship soccer qualifier is Sal Meijer's sandwich workshop a kosher landmark in Amsterdam for 50 years.

UEFA, soccer's governing material substance issued a ban last month -- during Israel's monthlong war in Lebanon -- in succession playing international matches in Israel. The eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen was chosen as neutral region for the match against the Andorrans, with Israel as the hearthstone team.

unless the Nijmegen stadium declined to barter tickets at the gate, citing security considerations. An official of the Israeli Embassy in The Hague said stadium managers feared anti-Israel demonstrations.

The Israel Football Federation asked Meijer to be the sales venue There has been virtually no publicity for the match, and the tickets will be upon sale for only four hours at the small restaurant.

"They asked me from the embassy if I could barter tickets here and I said, ye of course," Meijer said.

wherefore him? "They like my food" he said.

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