• Protocol: This is how LaLiga proposes the return of the public to football stadiums

The return of the public to the stadiums seems closer and closer. Although no one dares to make a prediction, LaLiga finalizes a protocol that will allow assistance to the fields with a mask, prior registration of subscribers, nominal entry with staggered access times or the prohibition of consuming within the premises. How many followers will be able to enter? It is the unknown that the draft of LaLiga leaves, which leaves the maximum capacity allowed in the hands of the CSD and the health authorities. The clubs are restless. With seven days of competition, they hesitate and make cabal. But in September, when the next season starts, they know that will be the most likely scenario.

Many of them had announced how to compensate their subscribers and they know that in the new normal they will have to calculate the best way to reach the highest percentage of subscribers by complying with the 1.5 meter distance measures. They could do it, roughly speaking , canceling seats and rows, as the league protocol suggests, but this would mean that, in many cases, they could not even cover the costs of opening the venue.

A dozen of them have been leaning for weeks at the Spanish company 3D Digital Venue , a pioneer in the use of video game technology to recreate stadiums interactively. What started as a tool for the sale of tickets and premium spaces, which FC Barcelona, ​​Atlético, Athletic, Manchester City, Totteham or Liverpool already have, has now added an algorithm that allows them to optimize the capacity.

The basis is "reliable knowledge" of the fields . "We know the architectural details of the stadiums because, for example, the width of the corridors or the slope of a grandstand is relevant when calculating social distance and, when greater, fewer rows and seats would have to be eliminated", explains Francis Casado , founder and head of business development for 3D Digital. This circumstance, for example, would give Mestalla, the oldest stadium in the competition, some advantage over the modern Wanda Metropolitano.

The key is to squeeze the possibilities individually, with a study of the stadium and a web application that would allow various calculations. «Because another determining question is to know if you can make groupings of localities because they are from subscribers of the same family or living together. The more you can group, the more capacity you will earn . But the clubs have to have a very in-depth study of the profile of their subscribers, and many do not, "adds Casado. In fact, both in LaLiga and in the Premier, orders to external companies are proliferating so that they facilitate n regrouping patterns .

What seems clear is that the full in the stadiums will not be able to return until the middle of 2021 and, meanwhile, applying the social distance “the greatest capacities that can be achieved are around 30-35%. If the stadium is 20,000, 6,000 people will enter, "says the expert, who warns of the rotation of subscribers in matches as a solution. "But that will mean compensating those who cannot attend or even those who change places to another of lesser value."

The value of its tool is that it adapts the stages to the change in capacity if there is an increase and decrease in certain days due to the evolution of the epidemiological situation.

The adaptation of the stadiums to the new normality will suppose an extra expense to the clubs. The decrease in subscriber income is compounded by security expenses to monitor compliance with the rule and the cost of disabling seats is added . "There are those who study sheathing them with a plastic that, in addition, serves as an advertising support, which seems a reasonable measure." Can clubs bear the operational cost with that revenue? "Some are not going to pay to open the stadium to the fans," he says.

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