Liga Santander: Nobody wants to go to the Spanish Super Cup: the clubs have only sold 9% of their tickets | LaLiga Santander 2019

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Picture of the exterior of King Abdulahh Stadium, in Jeddah, dwelling of the Super Cup.
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The value was not an issue. A fan of Actual Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atlantic or Valencia he may have a ticket for his staff's match by 25 euros. If you’d like to throw the home via the window, you may scratch your pocket till 37. What's extra, each Valencia and Atletico de Madrid return the quantity to the courageous, or the courageous, who dared to go to Jeddah, the second most essential metropolis in Saudi Arabia, the week after Christmas. Neither of these two circumstances has helped.. The Spanish Super Cup, which begins on Wednesday, will have a principally native public, Of the 12,000 tickets obtainable to clubs for their followers, they have barely sold 9.05%.

Damaged down as follows. The Actual Madrid has sold 700 tickets. Barcelona, ​​lower than half: 300. Atletico de Madrid confirms the supply of 50 tickets and the ValenciaLastly, it has simply stayed 26. Complete, 1,076. Nothing new, as a result of in the 4 clubs they already assumed that they didn’t arrive, not to mention promote all the tickets that they had obtainable. The truth is, from the white membership they make clear their determine, which is the largest of all. It's not that 700 Madrid followers are going to journey from the capital to Jeddah. They’re reasonably requests from companions who’re in Arabia for different causes (primarily work or enterprise) and that can take benefit to watch the recreation. A really low share of these 700 tickets will journey from Madrid.

There are a lot of situations, and none constructive. The primary is the date. It’s simply after Christmas, with the expense they incur for individuals. The second is that the status of the match is what it’s. That’s, we’re not speaking a couple of Champions League ultimate. And third, that the journey just isn’t straightforward, explains a director of one of the clubs concerned, who swim between publicly lamenting the absence of followers and celebrating privately the quantity of cash that this Super Cup will enable them to win: a set of six million for Barcelona and Actual Madrid, three for the Atlantic and two for Valencia, who disagreed and, after arbitration, obtain an quantity shut to that of the Atlantic. The 2 finalists will enter one million extra and, for Bara and Madrid there shall be an quantity that completes round 10 million for every week.

The Federation It already has a delegation of virtually 30 individuals in Jeddah. The primary 10 left final Friday, and one other 20 traveled yesterday. The remaining, together with the official press journey, will go away tomorrow to make sure that nothing goes flawed. The problem of the stands just isn’t worrying in the expeditionaries, as a result of though the surroundings is chilly, since there shall be no teams of followers of the groups, they consider in the phrase of Sela Sports activities, the firm participated by the Saudi authorities organizing the occasion, and that has transmitted to them that almost all of the tickets put up on the market for the native public are already sold.

Additionally solved the downside that the competitors was seen in Spain – lastly being Movistar the one in cost of retransmitting it-, the Federation trusts that the noise round this new competitors provides means to the events and critics reminiscent of these obtained by Amnesty Worldwide stay in the background.

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