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After the “shame” against Eintracht, Barça will have nominative tickets in Europe


Eintracht fans, dressed in white at the Camp Nou, before the start of the match. / ef

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The Barça club insists that it did not sell seats directly to German fans and the hypothesis is that resale companies bought them with Spanish cards

Amador Gomez

After Thursday’s scandal at the Camp Nou, with the presence of between 25,000 and 27,000 German fans of the 79,468 who attended the second leg of the Europa League quarter-final between Barça and Eintracht, from now on tickets for international competition matches that the Barça team plays on their field, they will be nominative. This was announced by the president of Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, who acknowledged that it was “a shame that cannot be repeated” and described what happened as “outrageous” and “very serious.”

«As a culé, I feel ashamed of what I have seen, because there were many fans of the other team and fewer of ours. I have felt ashamed, “Laporta admitted, after revealing that Barça put 34,440 tickets on sale and sent Eintracht the 5,000 that corresponded to the rival club by UEFA regulations.

Laporta insisted that he did not sell tickets directly to German fans, “because they could not be purchased with German credit cards or from a German internet address.” “It is evidence that those who bought the tickets sent them to Eintracht fans,” lamented Laporta, while the Catalan club rules out that the so-called “undesirable situations” have been caused by tour operators who usually sell seats to tourists.

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«For years, Barça has been working with official tour operators, but they have a reduced ticket package. We have to analyze what has happened to the online tickets, who has bought them and why they have reached the Germans,” claimed the vice president of Barcelona’s institutional area, Elena Fort.

The Barça club put on sale for the match the more than 25,000 tickets that corresponded to the members who this season, as a result of the pandemic, took advantage of a one-year leave of absence from their season ticket, in addition to the seats that were released free of charge before of the party. “I’m not looking to blame the partner. The maximum responsibility is the club”, clarified the spokeswoman for the Barça board, who confirmed that for the sale of tickets for the match against Eintracht the culé entity collected 3.5 million euros, “a money difficult to digest taking into account tell what happened.”

While Barcelona continues to investigate why and how the control systems have failed, one of the hypotheses that is handled, apart from thousands of members selling their tickets to German fans, is that resale companies bought the seats with Spanish credit cards and later sold them to fans of Eintracht Frankfurt.


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