New Barça measures to avoid another invasion like that of Eintracht

FC Barcelona puts tickets for Barcelona-Manchester United on sale this Tuesday.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 January 2023 Monday 13:40
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New Barça measures to avoid another invasion like that of Eintracht

FC Barcelona puts tickets for Barcelona-Manchester United on sale this Tuesday. The match on February 16 is considered high risk by the State Anti-Violence Commission. And the club wants to avoid another invasion like that of Eintracht Frankfurt at the Spotify Camp Nou. For this reason, the entity is implementing a series of measures to control who buys the tickets and who accesses the stadium.

The entity has put the batteries to see that the meeting coincided with holidays in Great Britain. "Nobody wants to see an image like that of Eintracht again," confessed the institutional vice president, Elena Fort. That April 14, it is estimated that some 30,000 German fans entered the Camp Nou and celebrated the 2-3 win that classified them and eliminated Barça. For this reason, Barcelona has drawn up a new protocol. “I am sure that from the club we cannot do anything else or take more measures. It seems to me that it is practically impossible for it to happen again, ”Fort predicted.

The first step is that Barcelona will block the purchase of tickets, which will be nominal, from a British IP and with cards from that country. On the day of the game, which begins at 6:45 p.m., “all” the locations will be controlled, the board assured. In addition, you will only be allowed to enter the stadium through access 21 with visiting clothing and not the rest of the facilities. "Manchester United have been informed and are fully aware. They have warned their followers. There will be no surprises, ”he explained.

In its day, Barcelona focused on its own subscribers, since they considered that the cards were misused. To fight against resale, the club will not open the physical ticket offices until the day of the match, limits the number of tickets that each person can purchase to 4, among all the tour operators they will have 1,000 seats and the children's card and senior tickets are null and void.

In addition, the novelty that is introduced is that the subscriber member gives up his card, he will have to fill out a form to notify the club and the person who uses the card will have to carry the DNI and the printed or digital form. "This gesture helps the club, which will be able to trace the entry," Fort added in case of security problems. The control of the cards will be random but not showing the document will imply the prohibition of access to the stadium. "If you are asked for the form and you do not bring it, you would be left out of the party," warned the vice president.