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| Football - FC Barcelona present new signing Adama Traore - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - Feb 2, 2022. FC Barcelona's president Joan Laporta during the presentation. (Photo by=REUTERS/Albert Gea) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] Barcelona will make tickets for European games at the Camp Nou non-transferable, president Joan Laporta said after a reported 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans entered the venue for their Europa League game despite away fans only being allocated 5,000 tickets, Reuters reported.
Barca were knocked out of the competition on Thursday (Apr 14) by the Germans in the quarter-finals after winger Filip Kostic scored twice in a 3-2 victory that saw Eintracht advance 4-3 on aggregate. While Barca were expecting huge backing at the stadium, ESPN reported there were close to 30,000 Eintracht fans among the 79,468 crowd. "We insist that the 34,440 tickets that went on sale were tickets restricted to sale outside Germany," the club said on Friday. "The club did not sell tickets to German fans. Who bought those tickets, did so and passed them on to German fans, that is obvious."
Of those who attended the game, the club said that 37,746 were season ticket holders, 5,000 tickets were in the away section and 34,440 had bought tickets through other means. The remaining were invited by European soccer's governing body UEFA. Laporta said Barcelona "is not guilty" for events leading to the tickets ending up in the hands of German fans.
