With the public and the possibility that each and every one of the almost 2,000 subscribers of the Spar Girona who want to enter the pavilion. This is how the Uni-Estudiantes of the first day of the Women’s League-1 will be played on Sunday. After days of many doubts (caused by the recommendation of the CSD to let only 500 people enter any pavilion in the state), the Councilor for Sports of Girona, Adam Bertran, confirmed yesterday that the current restrictions provide that the matches of professional competitions can be played with the public with a maximum of fifty percent of the capacity, as long as the security measures provided for by the Procicat are respected. The Girona City Council is the owner of the facility and, therefore, Bertran’s words suddenly erase the anxiety that directors and fans of the Uni had within them since last Saturday the Secretary General of Sports of the Generalitat , Gerard Figueras, opened the door “to review the protocols to approach the recommendation of the CSD.”
In a day marked by the announcement of new, and strong, restrictions in Girona and Salt to curb the increase in new infections, yesterday it became clear that the match between Uni and Estudiantes will have a special treatment because it is of a professional competition. “With regard to the sports field, the celebration of professional matches with public assistance will be allowed, as long as the guidelines of the Procicat are respected; while the holding of friendly matches that take place in municipal sports facilities will be suspended “, details the official communication of the measures that prohibit any non-professional match of all sports in Girona and Salt in, at least, the next two weeks. The limitation of “a maximum of fifty percent” in professional matches fits without problems in the party plan provided by the Union, which, renouncing to sell tickets and grouping members in coexistence groups, planned to put a maximum of about 2,100 spectators. The capacity of Fontajau is 5,040 seats (4,400 without the youth stand) and therefore the club’s plan meets the fifty percent restriction.
The film of doubts about whether the matches of the Spar Girona in Fontajau would be with the public, behind closed doors or, in between, with only 500 spectators, began last July when the Uni launched a campaign of season tickets that were to allow up to 2,100 people to be placed in the pavilion based on the system of stable coexistence groups. A party plan that, after some revisions, was approved by the Generalitat last Wednesday (September 9). The next day came the protocol of the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD) which, despite leaving the final decisions in the hands of each regional government, recommended a capacity of 1,000 people in the open stadiums and 500 in the closed pavilions.
A recommendation that threw down the plans of the Spar Girona, and many professional clubs of different leagues, if the Generalitat decided to heed it. And, to the surprise of those responsible for the Uni, the Secretary General of Sports of the Generalitat, Gerard Figueras, said on Saturday in statements to Diari de Girona that “party plans should be reviewed to try to approach the CSD’s recommendations.” A position by Figueras that made it unfeasible for Spar Girona to be able to place all its subscribers, close to two thousand, in a match like this Sunday’s in Fontajau against Estudiantes. This idea of ”approaching” the recommendation of the CSD was not understood, much less shared, by the sporting director of the Uni, Pere Puig: “The board has not yet met, and therefore I speak to personal title, when I say that if we sometimes criticize, and not always proportionately, that the government of the Generalitat or the Parliament abide by unjust laws in Madrid, we now find that the Secretariat wants to change a plan approved this Thursday to adapt to a surreal recommendation “, Puig said on Sunday also in statements in this newspaper. An uneasiness that will now be without effect after the position of Girona City Council, announced by Adam Bertran, left the words of Gerard Figueras worthless.
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