Telstar sells 22,500 tickets for duel without fans | Football

sport">The Telstar campaign was a great success, partly due to a promotional video with Feyenoord trainer Dick Advocaat. Especially after the ‘Tikkie voor Dickie’ campaign, the virtual tickets flew over the digital counter like hot cakes.

sport">“The last time we had about that many people in our stadium was in 1972,” said Natascha van Grinsven, Telstar’s commercial director. FOX Sports. “We still played in the Eredivisie then. Long ago.”

sport">Telstar previously launched a similar action against Top Oss. Then 7,500 tickets were sold, at 1.63 euros each. The stadium in Velsen can only accommodate 3600 fans.

sport">“Then the proceeds went to the terminally ill father of one of our employees,” said Van Grinsven. “Then we thought: are we ever going to get this over? Should we do this again? ”

sport">After a contact with Support Casper, the online ticket counters opened again and a wonderful amount was collected for the foundation of Feyenoord doctor Casper van Eijck, who conducts pioneering pancreatic cancer research.

sport">The ticket price was not chosen just like that. Telstar was founded in 1963 after a merger between VSV from IJmuiden and Stormvogels from IJmuiden.

sport">Telstar lost the game against Go Ahead Eagles 1-2. Substitute Jacob Mulenga was the celebrated man on the visitors’ side.

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