2023-08-16 13:59:28
The women’s World Cup final in between spain e England It will be played next Sunday, August 20 at 12:00 p.m. Thirteen years after the World Cup won by the men’s team, the 23 players called up by Jorge Vilda they can take Spain back to the top of international football.
“We have put a country on its feet, and now we have to take it to the streets”Jorge Vilda said to his players after eliminating Sweden. And the Barcelona City Council has quickly picked up the gauntlet.
As announced by the consistory on Wednesday, Barcelona will install a giant screen at the CEM Olímpics Vall d’Hebron to witness the World Cup final next Sunday. The municipal government led by Jaume Collboni understands that it is an “opportunity to see a historic game (…) and the expectation is maximum.”
????What a pride to see the women’s soccer team in the final of the #FIFAWWC 2023! You are making history by putting women’s football where it deserves to be, breaking the glass ceiling and paving the way for many women. Another step in the fight for equality. As a show of support, we have decided… https://t.co/miN9uDY6eT
— Jaume Collboni (@jaumecollboni) August 16, 2023
The City Council also announced that access will be free and that the capacity will be limited to 2,000 people “to guarantee the security of the space.” The doors will open at 11 in the morning, one hour before the start of the game. And the giant screen will be located on the same track as the pavilion.
The City Council’s announcement came just a few hours after the platforms ‘Barcelona with the Selection’ y ‘Madrid with the Selection’ They will claim to be able to enjoy the matches of Spain with giant screens. Both platforms requested both the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collbonilike the mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis Martínez-Almeidawho installed the screens to make citizens participate in a historic event for Spanish women’s sport.
The precedent of 2010
The two main cities in Spain have not been able to experience national football in their streets for many years. However, ‘Barcelona con la Selección’ organized three events in recent years so that the Barcelona citizen could live and enjoy some matches of the national team: “In 2016, more than 5,000 people gathered in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya to live the round of 16 of the men’s Eurocup. We had the concentration license, but not the license to install the screens, so they fined us approximately 12,000 euros. However, the Spain – Portugal of 2018 and the Spain – Italy of 2020 we had to organize them in private venues and with limited capacity,” he says. manelgeneral secretary of ‘Barcelona with the Selection’.
Madrid
Madrid, meanwhile, has not offered a single national team match in its streets for more than ten years. The last giant screen installed was for the Euro 2012 final against Italy together with the Santiago Bernabéu.
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During the tenure of Manuela Carmena (2015-2019), the mayor claimed that there were no sponsors who were willing to pay for the necessary facilities to place the giant screens. José Luis Martínez-Almeida ran into a pandemic at the beginning of his term that did not allow these events either. However, he did not install screens for the World Cup in Qatar or for any other National Team match either.
The ‘Barcelona con la Selección’ platform is very surprised by the attitude that Almeida has maintained up to now: “The mayor of Madrid said that surely all Spaniards will watch the game on television. Why do we have to watch the final at home and can’t we all do it together in the streets of our country? You tell an Englishman or a German that he will not be able to see his country play “ditch from the platform.
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