'Drop' in Barça's attendance in the United States

The FC Barcelona fell in the friendly against the Club America in the Cotton Bowl of Dallas, Texas, this Friday by the morning. In spite of the good attempts of Lamine Yamal and Marc Guiu, the defensive errors went back to condemn to a Barcelona team that, neither in friendly parties, can rid of the problems that so much pursue him and that have condemned him, especially, in the first stretch of LaLiga.

The true is that the blaugrana go with a flavour of bitter mouth of United States. They have achieved the aim to add five million euros to his arks by the dispute of the clash, to compensate a part of the money that left of ingresar the club by the defeats in front of Shakhtar and Royal Amberes in Champions League (€5,6m), but with the feeling that the team does not generate the impact that expected with his visit to the American continent.

Friendly without impact in Dallas

And it is that if already in the end of the pre-season, against the Arsenal also in United States, the influx of fans had been very low, this Friday in Dallas has gone back to repeat the history. The friendly against the Club America was agendado to contest in the Cotton Bowl by the good registers of asistentencia that had had the Barcelona group in summer, when it confronted to the Real Madrid and hanged the poster of 'sold out' very soon.

The difference has been overwhelming. Of the 92.000 fans that gathered during the summer to witness the Classical, only 30.000 assisted to the friendly against the Mexican picture. That is to say, only a third of the stadium filled for the clash. And it could be worse. Sources consulted by 'Sportive World' ensure that, in front of the little quantity of entrances sold in the previous days to the party, took drastic measures by part of the company commissioned of the friendly.

Extreme measures to fill the Cotton Bowl

The organisation decided to sell the ticket to the half of the price regulate to achieve that the stadium was fuller during the party and, especially, recover a percentage of the enormous investment that did so that it contested the friendly. It does not be necessary to overlook that they paid to the Barça €5m and that, besides, to the Club America surely had to pay another figure, as well as the rent of the enclosure and all the logistics.