The English final of the Champions, between Manchester City and Chelsea, will finally be played in the stadium Do Dragao of Porto. The date of Saturday 29 May is maintained but, for the second consecutive year, the most important game of the year will not be played in Istanbul, which was the planned venue. The red numbers of coronavirus infections and the local quarantine protocol advise against the match being played in Turkey. Someone speculated that, in the case of two finalists who play in the Premier, it would be logical that the final was held at Wembley. But, with the excuse that for those dates the London venue already has other events planned, UEFA has taken the final to Porto.
Aleksander ceferin, what does not stitch without threadHe knew that he was in debt to the Portuguese city. The 2020 Super Cup was to be played there and, also because of the pandemic, the match between Bayern and Sevilla flew to the Puskas Arena from Budapest. Now, then, they are compensated with the final of the Champions… and also with some public. Of the 50,000 towns of Do Dragao, the two hobbies will be able to occupy a total of 12,000 seats. Now, the stadium doubly wronged by UEFA is Atatürk. But it won't be until 2025 that will be able to recover a Champions final. In 2022 it will be in Saint Petersburg, in 2023 in Munich and in 2024 again in Wembley, a talismanic scene for Barça.