An embarrassment at the Camp Nou in exchange for three million euros

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Two Eintracht fans, just out of the bathroom, with their white shirts full of stains and with serious difficulties standing up, stopped the journalist at the exit of one of the bathrooms in the press area.

out of their pockets

,

that Barcelona sells on its website.

“We look for the boxes.

Look, we have the tickets.

They told us that with this we had the right to everything.

And we need to eat and drink as soon as possible.

It was just another of the surreal scenes experienced last Thursday at the Camp Nou during Barça's elimination at the hands of Eintracht in the Europa League quarterfinals.

79,468 spectators attended the stadium.

According to sources from the Barça club,

of those fans were German, although at first glance they seemed even more.

In any case, a figure that is light years away from the 5,000 tickets given by Barcelona to Eintracht, which is what the UEFA regulations mark.

Security

The episode, unusual in the history of Barcelona, ​​led to the Barça members who went to the field suffering for their integrity as the Eintracht fans were scattered throughout the field, not in the security zone required by the European entity for the fans rival.

were lit

in the third tier, beer cans were thrown, and there were constant bouts of fighting in the face of overwhelmed security.

In this Barcelona without a general manager and where

has taken full control from a figure that is not registered in the statutes, that of "executive president", it remains to be seen who will be the ones who will assume responsibility for what happened.

The Barça leadership, in any case, focuses on the resale of tickets and denies that the club has sold tickets "directly" to German fans.

However, he still cannot explain how he could lose control this time of those 26,000 subscriptions released by the members since the beginning of the season and that the entity itself puts up for sale in each game.

In addition, and according to Barcelona, ​​another 2,600 locations were released this time by the partners after the board made an appeal to its subscribers.

These transferred them at zero cost to the club, which was then able to market them.

The Barça entity thus fulfilled the economic objective of the night, raising around

, a figure that it used to reach in Champions League matches before the pandemic.

«Barça, in the economic situation in which it is, has to sell tickets.

Although those three million are difficult to digest”, assumed

, Barca's economic vice-president to Cadena Ser. “We deeply regret what our partners suffered.

We are ashamed of what happened.

As a club we have a responsibility, and we will take measures so that it does not happen again, "the leader stressed.

ineffective lock

The control mechanisms to prevent the rival fans from accessing the localities, yes, have been shown to be ineffective.

Barcelona assures that it had given orders so that the tickets put up for sale could not be acquired from Germany by blocking the IP or German credit cards.

So, all you had to do was make the purchase with a credit card from another country.

Although the channels to get those tickets were multiple.

From official tour operators that offer experiences with travel and accommodation, to the classic ticket reselling websites for big shows, capable of circumventing the theoretical impossibility of buying packages for more than four locations, which is the limit set by the club.

Barcelona sources understand that a solution could be biometric control, with nominal entries.

Although it is an option that is usually discarded due to its difficult implementation.

This would force attendees to come to the stadium several hours in advance.

In any case, changing now the savage commercialization that increasingly drives local fans away from the Camp Nou no longer seems feasible.

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