Portugal / 13.05.2021 06:18:12
The UEFA made official this Thursday that Porto will host the Champions League Final between the English Chelsea y Manchester City the May 29, instead of Istanbul, which was ruled out by the current health situation.
In a statement, the European body indicated that 6,000 entries They will be available to each club for sale to their fans, specifying that the total number of authorized spectators at the Dragao stadium (total capacity in normal times for 50,000 people) will be communicated later.
“The fans have had to suffer for more than twelve months without the possibility of seeing their teams in the stadium. Depriving them of the opportunity to live the final live was not an option and I am happy to see that a compromise has been reached “, reacted the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin.
The restrictions, the impediment
The final was scheduled so far at the stadium Atatürk in Estambul, but travel restrictions between Turkey and the United Kingdom due to the covid-19 pandemic, they gave impetus to the change of plans.
“I hope to be in Istanbul for a Champions League final and for many other events in the near future,” Ceferin said.
For second consecutive Year, Istanbul he runs out of the Champions final that he had planned and the great game of European football travels to Portugal. In 2020 it was Lisbon the city that hosted a ‘Final 8’ (quarterfinals, semifinals and final) in August, to conclude the Champions League.
In the first moment there was talk of UK as a solution for the final of this 2021, taking into account that both clubs are English and that the country is going to partially reopen the stands of its stadiums to spectators for the last two days of the Premier League this month.
In Portugal, the matches of the last day of the soccer league, scheduled on may 19will be able to accommodate a limited number of spectators to test the effect of the public’s return to the stadiums, the organizers of the Portuguese championship announced on Wednesday.
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