The club implements new measures to avoid repeating the deplorable image of the Camp Nou on the day of Eintracht in Frankfurt
The directive will require a form with the buyer’s data from subscribers who give up their tickets and will limit tickets to tour operators to 1,000
The barca will debut in the European tie against Manchester Utd the new security protocol in high-risk matches. The team of Xavi Hernandez will face the English team on February 16 at the Camp Nou in the ‘play-off’ prior to the round of 16 of the europa league (the return will be a week later at Old Trafford) and the club’s goal is to ensure that the unfortunate images that took place a little over a year ago in the match against Frankfurt Eintracht.
The memory of what happened on April 14, 2022 in the Barcelona stadium, with an invasion of more than 30,000 German fans in the stands, still stings among the fans of the barca, who found himself in the minority in his own field. “In the last UEFA game we experienced a situation that we don’t want to repeat,” he admitted. Elena Fort, vice president of the institutional area that confirmed the new protocol that will be applied against United, but it will also be that of all high-risk matches, such as the classic against Real Madrid mid March.
“We have been working on this issue for months with a transversal perspective that involves various areas of the club. We saw that similar circumstances could occur in this Manchester match: there are holidays in Great Britain and there were movements on the websites to buy flights,” he stressed. Fort.
The new measures that the club will apply will serve to carry out an exhaustive control of the fans of the rival team, without this implying that their access is prohibited, which is an issue that the club does not want to take into account. The tickets for these matches will be nominal and their sale will be blocked in the IPs of the countries of origin and with the cards of that country to establish a first fraud filter.
trace the origin
The main novelty will be applied in the transfer of subscriptions with which about 82,000 club members have. In order to establish the traceability of the tickets, the subscriber will be asked to give his ticket to a third person, to fill out a form with the data of that person, who will have to go to the field with that form and with a personal identification, which will be required randomly. “Anyone who doesn’t have it won’t be able to access it,” remarked the Barça vice-president, who added: “This changes our way of accessing the stadium. But I think that all the partners want to avoid the images that were seen before the eintracht and that will be a gesture that will help the club& rdquor;
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There will be other measures that will also prevent an invasion of fans of the rival team. The ticket offices of barca they will be closed until the day of the match, it will not be possible to buy children’s or senior tickets, tickets for all tour operators will be limited to 1,000, with specific access to a controlled area and to facilitate the new measures, access to the stadium will also be opened two hours before.
In that specific area, rival fans will be able to wear clothing identifying their team, but they will not be able to do so in the rest of the stadium, following the regulations dictated by the competition not to mix rival fans.
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Elena Fort made it clear, in his appearance, that from the first moment the barca has been in constant contact with the Manchester United, that he has informed his followers and they already know what they will find when they enter.
“What we want is for the pitch to be filled with our subscribers, members and our families and for them to be able to enjoy the game in complete safety,” he concluded. Fort, who clarified that Barça will maintain intense communication with the partner by all possible means so that they take the new protocol into account and can consult all the doubts that arise.