“Barça is not to blame for what happened.” Joan Laporta, the Barça president, has been forceful about the German invasion, which took place at the Camp Nou, although he later acknowledged that the club “is responsible because we are in charge of organizing the match” against Eintracht. And the first measure adopted by the leader, as he revealed in an interview with TV-3, is that “in international competitions the tickets will be nominative”.
In addition, the president of Barça has denounced “two irregular actions, both in the sale of tickets sold in the third tier, which went to German fans, as part of the subscriptions that also went to rival fans.” The club has raised 3.5 million euros for that match.
In this sense, Laporta has specified that putting the name to the localities in international matches was “a measure that I did not want to take because it bothers the members who have a normal and current attitude, which are the vast majority, but we have no more remedy”.
The president has reiterated that he felt “ashamed” of the invasion of German fans who took over the Camp Nou as if it were the Frankfurt Stadium, for which he has announced that “we don’t want it to happen again and those who know me know that I assume the responsibilities and take action”.
Then, the president himself has broken down the breakdown of tickets sold during the clash against Eintracht. There were 37,746 season ticket holders, 34,440 tickets sold to the public plus 5,000 sold to Eintracht fans, according to UEFA’s own regulations, who also received 2,425 invitations. A total of 79,468 spectators gathered at the Camp Nou this Holy Thursday.
“We did not sell tickets to the Germans,” he said. laporta, who later explained what had happened. “We put 34,440 tickets on sale. Barcelona fans should know that we have these tickets because there are subscribers who are on leave,” the leader justified.
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“These tickets we put on sale with restrictions. They could not be bought with German credit cards or with German IPS. We set all the restrictions that we could, as they have been done in the last six seasons,” argued the president.
But those restrictions failed resoundingly, as had never happened at the Camp Nou. “These tickets were located in the third tier, which was all white,” Laporta said. “These 34,440 tickets unfortunately and irregularly ended up in the hands of the Germans. Of the 37,746 season ticket holders that were registered at the stadium, many also ended up in the hands of German fans.”