The Football Club Barcelona will stop entering a figure close to six million euros for the game behind closed doors that will play against Naples, corresponding to the round of 16 of the Champions League, on Wednesday, March 18 at the Camp Nou. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Barca president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, during a lunch at the Equestrian Circle in Barcelona. The Barcelona entity, hours before and after a meeting with representatives of the Department of Salut of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Secretary General of Sport, already assumed that it would have to empty the stands of its stadium before the potential risk of contagion of the coronavirus .

"The Generalitat proposed us a very firm recommendation to play behind closed doors. And when it comes to health, it is also an obligation. Barça must be responsible for this situation can be solved," said Bartomeu, who left in the background the economic consequences of playing behind closed doors: " The economic component is secondary . Health premiums and, above all, collaborate with health authorities. We must respect rules."

This is also accompanied by the mandate of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and for which all professional and non-professional national and international sports competitions will have to be held behind closed doors during the next two weeks . The 28th and 29th days of the Santander First Division League and the 32nd and 33rd Days of the Second Division SmartBank League will be played without a public as a preventive measure of the coronavirus expansion.

As for the aforementioned Champions duel that will face Barcelona with Naples, some more unknowns are still added. Above all, as regards the movement of the Italian team to Spanish territory after the Council of Ministers has agreed to suspend direct flights from Italy to Spain until March 25 in order to contain the spread of the virus. The initial idea of ​​Naples was to land in Barcelona on Tuesday, March 17, a day before the game dispute.

Barcelona, ​​which had made a package of 5,000 locations available to the Neapolitan entity, has already announced that they will not be valid. The Barça club, in addition, will reimburse the money paid to fans who had already made a place for the meeting.

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