With half the capacity of the stadiums, imposed by the government, the two clubs would like to move the game to the end of the season. The request will be discussed by the Lega Council at the beginning of January
Ticket sales suspended, uncertainty about how to manage the public and the Italian Super Cup at the center of a tug-of-war. The government’s decision to reduce stadium capacity from 75 to 50 percent soft, non-traumatic. Yet it has significant effects, because it intervenes on situations that have already begun: several clubs have reopened the season ticket campaign this season, with even substantial subscriptions, and all of them had put up tickets for the first matches of the year.
The most disruptive question concerns the Super Cup between Inter and Juve, scheduled at San Siro on 12 January. The companies gave up playing it in Riyadh at the end of December also because they hoped to recover those 6 million, already agreed with Saudi Arabia, thanks to the collection from Milan. With half the capacity it will not be like this, then they agreed to postpone the meeting. At the end of the season, when it is likely that Covid has given a respite. The request will reach the League in these hours and will be discussed by the Council at the beginning of January, but it is not at all obvious that it will be accepted. On the contrary.
There are no free dates for Inter-Juve. If there had been one, it would have already been used to move the championship round preceding the playoffs that will see the national team play for the World Cup. Instead, nothing. There are those who want to wait for the path of the two clubs in the Champions League, assuming early eliminations. Even assuming that neither of the two finishes in the final, another question would arise: Inter-Juve could not be played in the middle of the week in the evening, because it would coincide with the matches of the European cups which must have no competition. Does it make sense, therefore, to postpone the Super Cup to play it on a Wednesday afternoon? And how would Mediaset, which holds the rights, take it?
Meanwhile, the clubs have decided to suspend the sale of tickets for the championship. Inter shouldn’t have particular difficulties in managing the situation, because for the match on January 9 with Lazio we have not yet reached 50 percent; to verify the situation of Juve that will host Napoli on the 6th. Instead, Roma has big problems in view of the match on Sunday 9 against the bianconeri, because the almost 21 thousand subscribers have been joined by as many fans who have bought the ticket: the total therefore reaches around 42 thousand spectators, but the capacity of the Olympic 50 percent of about 32 thousand. A nice chaos. The company will protect subscribers, even if a part of those on the South curve will have to change sectors to respect the checkerboard layout; then proceed with the refund of the 10 thousand with the ticket that will remain out. But there is another issue that touches Rome: the guest sector for the match on 6 January at San Siro with AC Milan sold out. How will excess fans be handled?
December 30, 2021 (change December 30, 2021 | 22:07)
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