Up to 70,000 fans of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have gathered on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium of La Cartuja to live the final of the Copa del Rey. Before the massive arrival of fans of both hobbies, the organization has established two meeting points, one for each team, where living the hours before the grand final. Although they are close to the stadium, they have screens and restoration, many meringues and culés have taken to go due to high temperatures and difficult access to them.
With a sun that squeezes from early and The thermometers exceeding 30 degreesReal Madrid and Barcelona have preferred to seek refuge, Beer and montaditos in the most central bars before going to the fanzones located in La Cartuja. The remoteness of them with respect to the city causes most of them to go well in the afternoon, before heading to the Olympic stadium.
The meeting points of both hobbies, to which It can only be accessed if you have entry for the finalthey are approximately 15 minutes from the stadium each and will remain open until 19:00, when the fans must go to the field to witness the final. However, they are further from the areas of the center and triana where they have The fans, who have to make long walks in the sun to be able to arrive, in the absence of buses that connect the area with the rest of the city. “I'm going to warn the classmates,” says a taxi driver who leads fans.
Difficulties to access
From the Pelli tower there is culés asking How can you get to the fanzone of your team. Up to 20 minutes they have to walk, before a single bus line that brings them closer and takes more than 25 minutes to arrive. From then on, the path of discoveries becomes a pilgrimage of Barcelona fans under the sun who ask in each corner where they must go to reach the meeting point and celebration of their team, before the low signaling. Everything, while They try not to stumble with the ground raised from this Sevillian neighborhood.
The location of the Barça fanzone is due to the complaints that were received the previous year by the state of the fanzone in which the fans of the Athletic Club were located, On the plot next to the Torre Sevilla Shopping Center by the state of the land. Faced with this, the new locations are wider and are closer to the stadium, however There are barely shadow spaces with which to meet the high temperatures in Seville this weekend.
The cars stop on the side of the stadium, where local police officers and the National Police prevent the passage. “There are 10 minutes of pleasant walk through the Alamillo Park,” explains an officer to fans, who see before them An asphalt esplanade and the sun without any signal of the distance to which the Fanzone Merengue is. There are many rocks that have preferred to stop on their way to the enclosure and They have mounted their own fanzones With tents, food and a lot of beer To endure the hours and heat before the game begins.
“This is the fanzone more precious and the best of all Seville, “he says for the Grison microphone, in charge of encouraging Madrid followers, however, the atmosphere at noon, as is the case in the culé, is scarce. It does not matter the beatbox made by the collaborator of the revolt, for Madrid fans who walk through the center of the city, Both the stadium and the meeting point are “to take for ass”as they confessed to this newspaper.
