The ruin of modest football without an audience

33% of

income

, in Segunda B, are the fees of its members, who have not been able to see a single match of their team in Lasesarre, a field with capacity for 8,000 spectators closed to the ground.

The

, from the Valencian Preferente, has already thought about whether it will be able to make the box office with the visit of a Primera in the next

tie

.

It was one of the prizes for his feat and there may be more than 10,000 euros at stake.

These are just two examples of the economic effect of the unequal

anticovid

regulations applied in non-professional football.

The

left them in the hands of each autonomy with a capacity recommendation that, with the evolution of the pandemic, has been restricted until the ban.

But, while in the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Galicia and certain localities in Madrid the attendance of the public is allowed with controlled capacity, in the Basque Country, Valencia or Cantabria, access is prohibited.

The comparative grievance is served and voices have already been raised.

“We are a show, just like the cinema or the theater, but also in the open air.

We do not understand why we are punished in such a strict and unequal way participating in the same competition ", explains

, president of Proliga, an association of Second By Third clubs that has asked the CSD to intercede with the communities to allow the presence of public with unified criteria in Second B, Third, Junior Honor Division and National Youth.

There are even those who go further, like Barakaldo, who calls for the paralysis of the competition until the public is allowed to return to the stands.

«We do not understand football without the fan.

It is as if a theater company performed behind closed doors, what would they live on?

We are not Primera teams, who have television rights.

We entered 16,000 euros for this concept and 290,000 euros for subscriptions ”, says its president,

.

His bet is to paralyze the competition and resume it when conditions improve, extending the season.

«That would allow us to reduce costs.

We could

take

of

, have Social Security subsidized ... Our employees would continue to receive their salaries without problems but we would not have the loss of income that comes from having to repay the fertilizers, "he sums up.

If the season ends without an audience, he warns, many clubs will not survive.

«In addition, I do not understand why they would allow me to rent the Euskalduna Palace and take 1,000 members to watch the game on television and I cannot let them enter a field with 8,000 seats, 16 access gates and with all their personal data collected, something that , for example, they don't do Mass, ”he insists.

Since the championship began, in subgroup A of Group II, there have been games with 5,000 spectators at El Sardinero, Santander, and others behind closed doors.

"We need equality in a competition in which there are already many differences," he emphasizes.

Box office and static advertising

The economic engine of these teams are the fans, through season tickets, the ticket office, static advertising or consumption in the bars and cafes of the fields.

"For a Third or Preferred team, they can represent between 10,000 and 14,000 euros a year with which they can pay current expenses in the facilities or arbitrations," explains the president of the Valencian Federation,

, who has led the claim of non-professional football to make the institutions reflect.

He already won the previous battle to not ban grassroots competitions.

“There has not been a single outbreak on a soccer field.

The incidence of contagion is 0.03%, the clubs have taken all the security measures and are open-air venues.

It is a grievance with the rest of the shows, because that is what we are, "he says.

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