The price was not a problem. A Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atlético or Valencia fan could have a ticket for his team's match for 25 euros . If you wanted to throw the house out the window, you could scratch your pocket until 37. Moreover, both Valencia and Atlético de Madrid returned the amount to the brave, or the brave, who dared to go to Jeddah , the second most important city from Saudi Arabia, the week after Christmas. Neither of these two circumstances has helped . The Spanish Super Cup , which starts on Wednesday, will have a mostly local audience because, of the 12,000 tickets available to clubs for their fans, they have barely sold 9.05%.

Broken down as follows. Real Madrid has sold 700 tickets . Barcelona, ​​less than half: 300. Atletico Madrid confirms the delivery of 50 tickets and Valencia , finally, has remained at just 26 . In total, 1,076 . Nothing new, because in the four clubs they already assumed that they would not be able to sell all the tickets they had available. In fact, from the white club they clarify their figure, which is the largest of all. It's not that 700 Madrid fans are going to travel from the capital to Jeddah. They are rather requests from partners who are in Arabia for other reasons (mainly work or business) and who will take advantage to watch the game. A very low percentage of those 700 tickets will travel from Madrid.

«There are many conditions, and none positive . The first is the date. It is just after Christmas, with the expense that they entail for people. The second is that the prestige of the tournament is what it is. That is, we are not talking about a Champions League final. And third, that the trip is not easy, ”explains a director of one of the clubs involved, who swim between publicly lamenting the absence of fans and celebrating privately the amount of money that this Super Cup will allow them to win: a fixed of six million for Barcelona and Real Madrid, three for Atlético and two for Valencia, which did not agree and, after an arbitration, will receive an amount close to Atlético. The two finalists will enter a million more and, for Barça and Madrid there will be an amount that completes around 10 million for a week.

The Federation already has a delegation of almost 30 people in Jeddah. The first 10 left last Friday, and another 20 traveled yesterday. The rest, along with the official press trip, will leave tomorrow to ensure that nothing goes wrong. The issue of the stands is not worrying in the expeditionaries, because although the atmosphere will be cold, because there will be no groups of fans of the teams, they believe in the word of Sela Sports , the company participated by the Saudi government organizing the event, and that It has been transmitted that most of the tickets offered for sale to the local public are already sold.

Also solved the problem that the competition was seen in Spain - Movistar will finally be in charge of broadcasting it -, the Federation hopes that the noise around this new competition will give way to the parties and criticisms such as those received by Amnesty International remain in a background.

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