Furor for Madrid in Klagenfurt

Madrid recovers the old normality (with some nuance) in Klagenfurt. The Wörthersee Stadion, which hosted Euro 2008, will be bursting for this Sunday's friendly (18:30, Real Madrid TV) against Milan. While on his visit to Glasgow (the Whites' first game with an audience in almost 17 months), Ibrox was still at 25% capacity, with 12,750 fans, the enclosure of the capital of Carinthia will not have capacity restrictions. The 30,000 seats that were put up for sale, with prices ranging between 29 and 39 euros and Alaba and Ibrahimovic as claims, were sold out in just 27 hours. Local authorities estimate that half of the tickets have been purchased by foreigners. “I've never seen anything like it. Klagenfurt is very lucky to host a match like this. Fans are eager to see top-level football after the restrictions, “Christian Kresse, director of the Carinthia state tourism promotion office, told the newspaper. Kronen Zeitung.

Before the avalanche of fans, a special device has been prepared for the match. The gates of the stadium will open at 4:00 p.m., two and a half hours before the opening whistle, and from 2:30 p.m. the verifications will be able to be passed to verify that the sanitary regulations are complied with.. Spectators are required to be vaccinated with the full schedule, demonstrate that they have overcome the disease or have tested negative in a PCR or antigen test in the previous days. There will also be the possibility of undergoing the antigen test at the stage itself.

The city lives in a stadium of football euphoria. The visit of the footballing kings of the continent (20 European Cups between them; 13 from Madrid and 7 from the rossoneri) coincides with the return of a city team (SK Austria Klagenfurt) to the first division of the German Bundesliga eleven years after the disappearance of SK Austria Carinthia. A team that Three decades ago he played against Real Madrid, which there qualify as one of the games of the century. The whites won that July 30, 1991 2-5 with goals from Luis Enrique, Prosinecki, Hagi, Milla and Alfonso.