After the referendum on the financing of l’Espai Barça passed with a very high note, we must now focus on the works. As they have counted Llauradó, Fort Y To reverse During the campaign, during the next season, 2022-23, the Camp Nou will host the matches of all competitions but with half the capacity. What half? The one that comes in the attached graphic. In other words, the entire rostrum and all the northern goal positions will be kept open until the wing corner. This will allow two important things: that the other half of the field cut diagonally (the entire side and the south goal) can be closed to work piecework and that the subscribers who come to the field -on a rotating basis- do not have to suffer discomfort of the works. Thus, walkways and scaffolding are saved to enter those areas because they are not going to be worked on.
Why have Barça and the architects decided to keep that half of the field operational? Because in the gallery there is what they call, internally, “the brain” of the stadium. In other words, the changing rooms, the media posts -cameras, press stands, Ricard Maxenchs room- and the UCO, the Operational Control Unit from where all movements in the stadium are monitored.
It is not a question of a box or no box, tribunes or no tribunes. It is not classism. It is practicality and common sense. In the second year, when Barça play in Montjuïc, it will be time to knock down the stands. At 65, it will be time to retire.