The Barça president reiterates that Barça did not sell tickets to the Germans
MADRID, 15 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, announced the first measures to be taken after the large presence of German supporters in the defeat (2-3) against Eintracht Frankfurt at the Camp Nou, such as “from now on” the entries in European competition “will be nominative”.
“The club is not guilty of these irregular actions that are going to make these tickets go into the hands of German fans. But we assume the responsibility that corresponds to us. Those who know me know that I always assume my responsibility and look for solutions. We do not want this to happen again. happen at Can Barça and we will adopt measures: the measures that I can announce to you and that we have already adopted are that in international competitions the tickets will be nominative”, he said in statements to Barça TV and TV3.
Laporta, who recognized himself “embarrassed” after the game that cost the culé box the European elimination and already advanced the intention to take measures, exposed these and Barça collected them on its official website this Friday. Eintracht’s fans exceeded 30,000 people at the Camp Nou, well above the 5,000 seats that Barça provided by UEFA regulations.
For this reason, the Barça team apologizes this Friday also to its fans and those who “felt intimidated by uncivic behavior, tense situations that some members and fans had to experience culers for improper and unethical behavior of some German fans” .
“The 34,440 that the club put up for sale were tickets that incorporated the German restrictions. At the club we did not sell tickets to the Germans. Whoever bought these tickets, bought them and sent them to the Germans, this is evidence” says the club.
“There are two irregular behaviors that we want to explain to the members: 34,000 tickets from the Third Tier that went to the Germans and it was not from the club, and there is also a part of the subscriptions that were occupied yesterday that also, through a irregular conduct, they ended up in the hands of the Germans,” he adds.
To prevent something similar from happening, Laporta announced this measure that they did not want to take “because it bothers members and Barcelona fans who behave normally.” “We will make the tickets nominal, it will have to be done, I ask that it be understood so that what happened against Eintracht at the Estadi never happens again,” Laporta said, insisting on the “sense of shame.”