The club focuses on online sales and considers selling tickets by name

The mass input of fans of Eintracht at the Camp Nou has unleashed a wave of indignation among the Barça social mass, who was intimidated and almost in someone else’s house when he was in his own stadium during the match against the Germans.

The club ensures that explanations are being sought for what happened and that, although the information is still being compiled and analyzed, they are already focusing on a possible cause. In fact, the focus is being put on the sale of tickets ‘online’, directly managed by the club, as the possible origin of most of the tickets that reached Eintracht fans in an uncontrolled way.

The culé entity downplays the percentage of these tickets that German fans were able to buy through tour operatorspointing out that the percentage they have does not match the number of non-culés spectators who entered the stadium (between 25,000 and 30,000, according to various sources).

Also insists from the FC Barcelona that the sale ‘on line’ could not be done from Germany because that sale was prevented from the first day that the tickets were put on sale. That does not prevent, of course, that from other geographical points outside German territory these locations could be accessed, either on an occasional basis (if you have a family member or a friend who buys you the tickets if they live outside of Germany) or organized ( some network that, knowing how this sales system works, buys tickets outside the German country and is dedicated to reselling them directly to Eintracht fans but circumventing that first computer barrier that the club puts up).

The investigations are going to be directed, mainly, to know to whom the tickets directly managed by the club ‘on line’ were sold, given that it is where the magnifying glass is put from the entity. They insist that it is possible to know who acquired them. In any case, as it is not a nominative ticket, it is not possible to know if that person entered the Camp Nou because they did not ask to prove their identity at the stadium access control.

Nominative tickets, on the table

In this line, from the club it is pointed out that one of the solutions for future similar situations is vender entries nominatively to find out to whom they are sold and where they come from, and then check that it is the same person who enters the stadium.

The official reaction

The vice president of the institutional area, Elena Fort, pointed out in RAC1 some of the conclusions that the board has been drawing since yesterday, while admitting that what happened is “an unacceptable shame”. He insisted that “the sale of tickets to Germany is capped from the first day” and explained that “you can know who has bought each ticket and you can follow it”.

In this sense, he pointed out that “the question is to know what has happened to the tickets for sale ‘on line‘, we are analyzing it”. At the same time, he pointed out that “tour operators receive a very small part of the tickets sold” and that these tickets “do not justify the number of Germans who were in the stands yesterday, it is not the proportion of what is sold ”. And he added that these tour operators “are official and approved.”

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