The person responsible for the lottery administration Corbera de LlobregatGustau Gómez, did not believe it this Saturday morning when they told him that he had distributed the pfirst prize of the Children’s Lottery. “We were with the family enjoying the gifts when they called me to tell me, but I thought they were kidding me,” she said in the face of great media expectation, trying to assimilate the sale of almost ten series, awarded with nearly twenty million euros. The establishment, located in the center of town, has been a great focus of attention and celebration among the few winners who have come to toast together. Among them, a group of ten workers from the Can Rafel Hotel in the neighboring town of Cervelló, who shared a tenth between them all.
Gómez has become one of the most wanted men this afternoon in Corbera. A large number of media outlets were waiting for him after it was revealed that his establishment was the point of sale for ten series of 94974. While it took him a while to make himself seen, on the central Catalunya Avenue the joy began to spread led by the worker from the administration itself, Antònia Bernal, who shared her euphoria with the residents of the area.
“I think I deserve to have won this award because I have been saying ‘good luck’ to all the clients to whom I have sold a tenth all Christmas,” she said, enthusiastically. Bernal has assured that she felt “very excited” to having distributed nearly twenty million euros when he has barely been working in lottery administration for a year.
The person in charge of the establishment has been perplexed by the news and has highlighted that has sold almost all ten series through the window. “There are only a couple of tickets left to sell, at most,” she pointed out, adding that the winners will probably be residents of the town “because the business has a very loyal clientele and there are few people who buy in passing.”
Gómez explained that this Saturday I was not following the El Niño draw because he was with his partner and his young son, enjoying the gifts. “They called me to tell me that I had sold the first prize, but I thought it was a joke until I started receiving many more calls and I realized that it couldn’t be that everyone wanted to play a joke on me,” he explained, visibly happy.
In the administration responsible for distributing the lot, very few buyers of the 98 tickets of the 94974. One of the few lucky ones who has been seen has been Cati, a neighbor of the town who explained that she has a tenth shared with her sister. She was following the draw, and at first she thought that she had not won anything. Until she was told that the number her sister had had indeed been awarded: “she couldn’t believe it.”
In Tarragona, for the same administrator
Curiosities of life, in the province of Tarragona another quality called Corbera, but this one with the tag ‘d’Ebre’, has also distributed this Saturday one tenth of the first prize. Chance wanted the lucky ones were the owners of the town tobacconist’s shopwho received the news amid much joy.
Its manager, Francesc Cortiella, decided two days ago to buy one number per machine, the only one that has won in that administration. “First we wanted to talk about it with the family, but it has gotten out of hand, right now the whole town knows,” Cortiella acknowledged. Although they would have liked to distribute more prizes to the town and people passing through, the owners are hopeful that citizens will be more willing to buy tickets per machine from now on.
Prize widely distributed in Catalonia
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In Catalonia, the first prize has fallen in other municipalities, more like in the capital itself, Barcelona, in Mataró, Sabadell, Montgat, San Vicenç dels Horts -which already distributed the Christmas Lottery Jackpot less than a month ago-, and the people from Girona English, La Jonquera and Porqueres.
The second prize, valued at 75,000 euros per tenth, was in 89634 and fell entirely in Móstoles (Madrid), while the third -with 25,000 euros per tenth- was in 94974 and was also widely distributed. In Catalonia, he has played in Tàrrega, Montgat, Terrassa and Cornellà de Llobregat.