UEFA’s slap on the wrist to Barcelona. He has imposed a sanction on Barça of 10,000 euros and a ban on selling tickets to their fans for the next European match away from home due to the racist behavior of their fans in the match on the first day of the new Champions League in Monaco. A banner was seen that read: ‘Flick Heil’. Something like, ‘hail Flick.’ Barça is a repeat offender, having been reprimanded by UEFA last April for similar incidents in the clash against PSG. Then his sanction was suspended for one year. Now, when he repeats his offense, he decides to apply that one-match sanction without selling tickets to his visiting fans.
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UEFA also prohibits the Barça team from selling tickets to their visiting fans for one more match. This sanction is suspended for one year for a trial period.
Barça itself condemned said banner the next day. “Worthless. Shameful. Disgust and sadness that someone who says he loves the club acts this way. Everything has a limit. It can never be repeated again. Anymore”; the institutional vice president and spokesperson for the Barcelona Board of Directors, Elena Fort, wrote in her personal X account, with the image of the poster, emphasizing that the club will not tolerate demonstrations that promote extremist ideologies and that what happened will be investigated.
The Barça club has not been slow to react and has reported that it will abide by and apply this sanction in the matchday 4 of the UEFA Champions League that Flick’s team will play against Red Star in Belgrade on November 6. FC Barcelona will proceed to refund the ticket price to all those fans who have already purchased it.
FC Barcelona wants to make it very clear in its statement that rejects any type of apology for violence and, as stated in articles 3 and 4 of its Statutes, it will ensure the protection and promotion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights included in the International Charter of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations.
Likewise, as a result of the behavior of the Animation Groups and the fans, both in the matches played at home (either at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys or at the Johan Cruyff) and when traveling to opposing fields and that are entailing repeated sanctions, both at the state and international level, informs that it will reinforce the current measures and will undertake additional actions that are appropriate to prevent these events from being repeated in the future as well as to sanction those responsible.
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