FC Barcelona will not return to its stadium, the renovated Spotify Camp Nou, this Sunday against Real Sociedad, as the club’s board intended. The City Council, directed by Mayor Jaume Collboni (PSC), has rejected that the enclosure can open in just five days for the security deficiencies it presents.
The Barca Club was pending a meeting that was held this Tuesday afternoon at the Barcelona town hall, a technical session in which they have evaluated the progress in the works to make the decision on the granting of the final work certificate (CFO), indispensable so that the first Barça team could compete in the new stadium. Analyzed the conditions in which the enclosure is located, whose works have not completed completely, they have also contemplated the possibility of reopening the stadium in a first phase with a capacity limited to 27,000 locations between the southern goal and the gallery.
FC Barcelona, which asked LaLiga to play its first four games of this season away from home with the idea of receiving Valencia in the new stadium in the fifth day, had to play that game at the Johan Cruyff stadium, against some 6,000 fans. At the same time – conscious in the same way that they would not have the Camp Nou ready for the premiere of the Champions -, they requested the necessary permits to play those matches of the first phase of the European competition at the Montjuïc stadium. There he will play against the PSG next Wednesday, October 1.
On the morning of this Tuesday, FC Barcelona summoned the media at the Spotify Camp Nou to offer a guided tour, show the progress in the works and that the vice president and head of the Spanish Barça, Elena Fort, explained that they aspired to compete in their new house and this weekend before the Royal Society. “We have already delivered all the documentation and we hope that the City Council today will issue the first occupation certificate. The work with the City Council has been constant and has intensified. The first occupation licenses can be conditioned to aspects that must be over. I can say that the building is correct, but that details are missing. We hope to return this Sunday,” he said.
[Noticia de última hora. Habrá ampliación en breve.]
