12:51Joan Laporta: “The members who bought tickets, they did it from 22 euros with the discount. And we have to know what happened to those tickets. And we don’t have the will to go after anyone, there is a great disappointment but this does not free us from our responsibilities”.
On the irregular conduct of the sale of fertilizersJoan Laporta: “It is serious, an act that the Catalans do not understand or accept. They will know why they have done it. We are aware of the members who bought tickets. The subscribers do not know. There were more than 37,000 subscribers and not all of them misused, but around 7,000 did buy tickets at a discount. And those who bought tickets and ended up in the hands of Germans will know why they did it. We have the list and we will act, through the disciplinary commission and the legal department.”
12:47Luis Venteo: “We had the premise that this number of tickets were coming, but without tickets. It was not planned and when we opened doors we saw that they were at the doors and probably they had tickets. The surprise was that they had tickets. And then we relocated and reinforced troops where we saw that They had problems.”
12:45Joan Laporta: “Most are the purchased tickets that ended up in the hands of Germans. Security was focused on 5,000 but it was an avalanche, with 30,000 Germans.”
“Internally, we will reflect with a working group and I think everyone did the best they knew how. There was a specialist ticket resale group that achieved their goal. It is an irregular performance, the resale of tickets to rivals, and He passed”.
On the errors detected and the failure of the control mechanismsJoan Laporta: “Now it’s easy to say that we could see it coming. Surely we could do better, but in the meetings with UEFA they told us that the others came without a ticket. It was no longer true and we are in an internal debate with UEFA and we will have to clarify responsibilities Yes. Those who came without a ticket found the option to find tickets through season ticket holders as well. Yes, we were worried, seeing so many Germans around the stadium. The team was even reprimanded when the coach arrived. If we had prevented entry, maybe now we would regret what could have happened.”
Question time begins
Joan Laporta sends a message to the fans: “I tell them to love Barça and come. There are 7 finals left and we need the public. And I reiterate my thanks to the members who came and fans. I feel very bad what they had to suffer. Yesterday was a example of animation, from start to finish. And I hope that the Camp Nou fills up these games. We will do everything we can to boost the attendance of the Barcelona fans”.
12:36Joan Laporta: “We are not to blame but we are most responsible”. “We will make every effort so that it never happens again.”
12:36Joan Laporta: “The seient lliure will only be for members and we want to encourage attendance. There will be ticketing, security, compliance, to establish consensual measures… We will have to be stricter. We do it in an act of transparency. And so that it does not happen again In conclusion, I would say that the club has not sold tickets to Germans, except for the mandatory 5,000 via UEFA and VIP, which were about 500, 45% of those available and due to an error, there were a little more than 200 that went to stop Germans”.
12:33Lluís Venteo: “Everything works through a computer program and mobile access and in the Turin final it will be used. Some clubs already do it, like Osasuna. It’s a change of culture. People are used to the role of the ticket but the objective is to know that whoever enters knows who he is, and it does not mean that the season ticket cannot be transferred”.
12:32Joan Laporta: “We are ultimately responsible for what happened, but the club did not sell tickets to Germans. It was caused by what we have explained. And as those responsible we take action. And what we will do in special, international and also some League or Cup matches, is that the tickets will be nominative, it will surely be digital”.
12:30Luis Venteo: “They enter early, they have a culture of standing up, of drinking… and this caused friction between fans. They were scattered throughout the stadium, with large groups and the 5,000 we expected, with them we had the situation under control. The problem was in the area of local fans, totally overwhelmed. We distributed the security forces and caused the anger of the locals to contrast with their joy at the result”.
12:30Luis Venteohead of security: “It was a high-risk match, and what is usually done for these matches was done. Our concern was the 5,000 who are part of Eintracht’s ultra groups, but we must admit that with the drones we saw that the The situation was not what we expected. The doors were full of German fans and we understood that the indicators were not ideal and there would be an avalanche of Germans.”
12:27Laporta: “Private security, which worked, was also overwhelmed.”
12:26laporta: “It is a system that we have inherited from the previous meeting. And this, which belongs to the more social, ticketing and security area, we thought it would work but we have seen that in special matches like this, that the ideal circumstances were given for these groups of resale, on vacation, with mobilized rival fans and high purchasing power…it was a context for these organized groups”
12:25laporta: “There was also a misuse of the season tickets. It is an estimate, there is no certainty because there are no sales controls. Season tickets also went to Germans. It is sad because those of us who love Barça, the majority, find it hard to imagine that a member or subscriber gives the entrance to rival fans, but it happened”.
12:23Joan Laporta: “I insist that more than 27,201 purchase requests were made from Germany and the system was overwhelmed and unofficial agents and not external to the club, organized groups and specialists in resale, was that the control mechanisms were outdated and inefficient” .
12:22Juli Guiu gives the figures for ticket sales.
37,746 tickets sold
1,290 VIP tickets
2,425 invitations
37,746 paid attendance
3,572 operational
“23,427 tickets were sold online and 3,670 through tour operators”
“The system was working until it overflowed.”
“We have detected a tour operator that did malpractice and the contract will be terminated.”
12:18Joan Laporta: “I want to thank the members and Barcelona fans who attended the match against Eintracht, it was Easter and I want to thank the members and fans from the bottom of my heart. Also yesterday. And I apologize to them, because they felt inconvenienced by the massive presence of German fans.
12:16BEGIN THE PRESS CONFERENCE!
12:15In addition to
Joan Laportawill also appear
Juli Guiuvice president of marketing, and
Luis Venteo, head of club security. The rest of the directors will be present in the first row.
12:11Several club directors arrived at the Camp Nou facilities a few minutes ago to attend Joan Laporta’s press conference, which will start shortly.
12:04The start of the president’s press conference is delayed a few minutes, which will analyze and assess the events of Thursday’s match against Eintracht Frankfurt, with the presence of more than 30,000 fans at the Camp Nou of the German team and will announce the measures in the sale of seats for international matches, which has already been announced that they will be nominal.
11:56In less than five minutes the press conference will start!
Joan Laporta!
11:52Anyway, the
indignation between the barcelonismo was
generaland this was stated by numerous members and fans at the end of the game on Thursday, also due to the bad behavior of some fans of the
EintrachtFrankfurtwho made the Camp Nou their home and were even the majority in various areas of the stadium.
Also yesterday, in the match against
Cadiz, some partners and fans gathered on the grandstand esplanade to show their discomfort at the events. The
Animation Grandstand in fact,
did not attend the match in protest.
11:48In his statements, Barça’s chief executive insisted that “the club did not sell tickets to Germans.”
11:47laporta explained that the club had
34,440 tickets for salewith
restrictions since they could not be purchased with German credit cards or with a German IP, but he confirmed that “those who bought them sent them to the Germans, it is evidence.” Also, he talked about
“irregular conduct” also by the
members who used their subscriptions37,746.
11:41The same Thursday at the end of the game,
laporta He already stated that what happened in the stands was
“a shame that cannot be repeated” and on Friday he announced that the
tickets for international matches at the Camp Nou will be
nominal.
11:37Good morning from the Mundo Deportivo newsroom and welcome to the press conference of the president of FC Barcelona,
Joan Laportafrom
analysis, assessment and announcement of the measures in the sale of seats for international matchesafter what happened last Thursday at the Camp Nou, with the presence of
more than 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans for all sectors of the stadium.
The press conference will begin at 12 noon in the Ricard Maxenchs room at the Camp Nou.