The Joan Gamper Trophy scheduled for Sunday, August 8, it will finally be played at the Johan Cruyff Stadium after the refusal of Government of the Generalitat That the Camp Nou can accommodate 20,000 spectators for this meeting due to the restrictions due to the pandemic.
The Govern announced this Thursday morning that the Gamper was going to be played at the Estadi Johan Cruyff but then Barça had not communicated or decided anything definitively.
Without any pronouncement on the part of the Barcelona club, the spokesperson of the Govern, Patrícia Plaja, was the one in charge in an official press conference to publicly announce that “the health data forces to take restrictive measures that affect sports competitions. The new resolution limits the maximum capacity to 3,000 people. It affects the Joan Gamper Trophy, which will be held at the Estadi Johan Cruyff ”. That is how clear the public body was, in the words of its spokesperson, about the place where the two friendly matches against Juventus, of the men’s and women’s teams, will be played.
A day earlier, on Wednesday, the news was known that the Govern rectified in his authorization to allow public in the Camp Nou on the occasion of the celebration of Joan Gamper Trophy. As the Govern had given the go-ahead, Barça put the tickets up for sale and had already sold 14,000 of the nearly 20,000 seats authorized by the Generalitat government, but the reversal of this forced the Barça club to change plans. The FC Barcelona activated from the first moment of the change of criteria of the Govern the option to go play Johan Cruyff Stadium, mainly to reduce costs in terms of opening the facility. Costs are considerably reduced in the case of the stadium annexed to the Ciutat Esportiva Joan gamper compared to the Camp Nou.
Hours after the announcement of the Govern, and after studying the details of the operation well, Barça announced it publicly and assured that the money for the tickets will be returned to those 14,000 spectators who had already purchased them.
The new scenario will allow that in the men’s and women’s matches against the Juventus 3,000 fans are summoned in the stands of the Johan cruyff, the limit set by the Generalitat for sporting events, and in the coming days the club will communicate the details of the new ticket sales process.
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