Stadiums open to 50% starting from Inter-Milan: space for 40 thousand?

The championship will restart from 50 percent of the capacity and from the almost 40 thousand spectators of the Milan derby. Hopefully, 50 percent with a view to 100. But if the first threshold does not need new regulatory interventions, the second obviously could only come with another decree. And here, of course, the path is crowded with question marks, not so much and not only because of the ups and downs of the epidemiological curve, but because of the uncertainties of an incandescent political situation linked to the election of the new head of state. Up to the possibility of a fall of the government that would lead to a reshuffling of the cards with outcomes to be verified. Better to start from what seems at this point if not taken for granted, very probable: once the period of self-reduction of 50 percent, suggested in some way by the premier and the minister of health, the League will obviously not renew the measure. To guide the numbers of capacities, the decree will once again set the limits to be respected at 50 percent (for stadiums) and 35 percent (for arenas, however in this case there has been no change). . There is another clue that goes in this direction: Inter will start selling tickets for the derby from today.

50 yes, 100 soon

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The great frustration of Milan-Juve with 5 thousand spectators, with the missed collection for a great match that obviously would have filled the San Siro, should therefore not be repeated. The Milan derby on Saturday 5 February at 6 pm would take place with about 38 thousand spectators, half the capacity of the Meazza stadium. This is the “prediction” of Luigi De Siervo, the managing director of the Serie A League who yesterday, after the interview with the Gazzetta, spoke to “Politics in the ball” on Gr Parliament: “From the information we have, we will have at least 50 percent and it is the minimum wage. We hope to be able to reach 100 percent of the capacity of the facilities soon thanks to the great work that the undersecretary for sport, Valentina Vezzali is doing. We need to get back to normal and get the audience back into the stadiums. Because even when the European cups return, it would be a huge damage for our clubs to play abroad with the opposing public and at home without fans, we would lose the home factor “. Among other things, De Siervo crossed paths with Vezzali during the weekend of the ski world cup, in Cortina, in a meeting that must have mainly focused on two fronts: refreshments and capacities.

French street

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Realistically, imagining in full “Quirinalesque” tussle of being able to find the right bank to go and retouch the current limit upwards, could be unrealistic. Better to exploit the return to 50 percent as a starting point, especially in the beginning of the month, which will start with a great novelty: the abolition, both outdoors and indoors, of any limit of presence in France, a country among the more severe in the anti Covid measures, including football, as demonstrated by the decision in the first year of the pandemic to cancel the championship, the only choice among the five most important European leagues.

Less far

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What about 100 per 100? This goal is certainly less distant. It is clear that the numbers of infections, and especially of hospitalizations and intensive care, must be monitored with a longer look than that of the daily bulletin. But even in the scientific community, a more optimistic narrative of the future, even in the short term, is increasingly gaining ground. And this is why we could hypothesize a close-up growth also for capacities. In those stadiums that have been a place reserved only for vaccinated or recovered spectators for weeks, given the obligation to have a “reinforced” green pass.

Two years

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What does close range mean? If the undersecretary of health Andrea Costa had hypothesized the possibility that it would totally reopen in early spring, now someone is imagining an advance on the schedule. There could be an intermediate stop at 75 percent, perhaps to allow more public at the time of the resumption of the European cups (Inter-Liverpool is scheduled for February 16 …), 75 percent which represents the threshold with which the season, but the French model encourages us to think that we can also immediately reach the return to maximum capacity. Which has been missing for two years: the final Sunday of February 2020 was the last without limitations, but already with some postponements. Then we would enter a tunnel from which we have not yet fully exited.