Follow Xavi’s presentation at Barcelona today, live
Barcelona has been totally overwhelmed by the massive request from fans for tickets through the club’s official website to attend this Monday’s presentation of Xavi Hernández as the new manager of the Barça club at the Camp Nou. In just over 24 hours, All the tickets that the club had made available to the follower were sold out, totally free and with the possibility of obtaining six for each person. For now, the sale of tickets was framed in the second and third tier Tribune, freeing the first for the VIPS and the family and friends of the Egarense, but to avoid greater evils on the same day of the presentation, more areas will be enabled in the field so that nobody is left out of the blaugrana coliseum.
What seems clear is that it could easily exceed 25,000 people, a record number, if we take into account that the presentation is made on a working day and from 11.30 am.
The club plans to open the entrances from that time, leaving about two hours for all those who have requested their entry or who want to attend the presentation have more than enough time to arrive.
The open-door presentation will last just over half an hour, more than enough time for Xavi to receive all the affection of a hobby in need of happiness and enthusiasm. The legendary Blaugrana player plans to take the microphone during the event to send a message of optimism to the stands, as Pep Guardiola did in his presentation in 2008 when he pronounced his famous phrase: “Fasten your seat belts because we are going to have fun”.