After the massive attendance of Eintracht Frankfurt fans at the Camp Nou to witness the second leg of the Europa League quarterfinals (2-3), the president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta announced that from now on tickets for international matches played at the Camp Nou will be nominal.
In statements to the Catalonia Television (TV3) and to the club’s media, the highest representative of the Catalan entity broke down the attendance data of the duel which meant the elimination of Barça in the second European competition.
According to figures made public by the club, 37,746 fans attended with a season ticket, 34,440 tickets were sold to the general public, 5,000 tickets were sent to Eintracht Frankfurtas established by the regulations of the UEFAand 2,425 invitations were reserved for the highest body in European football.
“The 34,440 tickets that the club put up for sale, which correspond to those that subscribers took advantage of, were tickets that included the restriction that they could not be purchased with German credit cards nor from any IP address in that country,” Laporta pointed out.
These tickets, according to the president, were located in the third tier of the stadium, where a majority of white Eintracht shirts were seen.
“Those who bought the tickets sent them to the Germans, this is evidence”denounced Laportawho recalled that these 34,400 tickets were sold at a 50% discount for members 24 hours before opening the sale to the general public.
Also, the president explained that Among the theoretically 37,746 subscribers who attended the Camp Nou, it was also detected that a part of those locations were occupied by German supporters.
“Here there are two irregular behaviors that we want to explain: that they are referring to the 34,400 tickets from the third tier that ended up irregularly at the hands of the Germans, and it was not the club that sold them, and then there is a part of fertilizers that through irregular behavior ended up at the hands of the Germans,” he lamented.
In this way, as the vice president of the social area already commented this Friday, Maria Elena Fort, Laporta He exonerated the club from the massive presence of rival fans, but admitted that the board of directors is “responsible” for organizing the match and does not want what was experienced against him to “repeat”. Eintracht.
For this reason, he advanced tickets will be nominal in international competition matches that the first soccer team plays in the Camp Nou.