BEYOND THE EMPTY STADIUMS
A very different Classic! The pandemic and its ravages in Madrid-Barça
Published:10/04/2021 - 01:05h
Updated:10/04/2021 - 01:05h
The outbreak of the coronavirus has changed the whole world and football has not escaped. El Clásico, the most anticipated game of the year, remembers all the ravages
It does some years was impossible to think that a Classical could contest without public. The player 'twelve' and the emotion that lives in the terracings was one of the factors that more had weight in a clash between the FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. This Saturday, will live the second crash between the 'big' of Spain with the stadiums vacios and with drops, also, by coronavirus.
In the last decade, the party between blaugrana and madridistas had turned into one of the sportive events more seen in Spain and all over the world. It went much more there of the fanatical that assisted to the Camp Nou or Santiago Bernabéu, turning into a reason for the meetings and celebrations between friends to live the party. To day of today, the reality is very distinct and are few the options to enjoy of the Classical.
The bars and restaurants were the main stage, in Madrid and Barcelona, in which cientos of fanatical gathered to see the clash. These venues have seen the consequences and in the duel of this Saturday will see again them once again. Whereas before, in average, could receive to more than fifty people in his spaces for the transmission of the meeting, this figure sees reduced to a maximum of 15 or 16 people by establishment.
The measures to avoid the positive cases in Spain have intensified in front of the arrival of a new wave of contagions. In Madrid, for example, the touch of remains begins to the 23:00 hours, just after the end of the party and the meetings can not happen of more than six people. In Barcelona, the measures are more strict. The bars have to close to first hour of the afternoon, to the 17:00, by what not even are an opportunity to see the clash.
A Classical distinct
The conditions in which the Barça and Madrid will confront in the Gave Stéfano, from the 21:00 hours, will be very different to the ones of the last years, with a lot of more sanitary controls and restrictions to protect, also, the health of the players, technicians, personnel of the teams and the rest of people that work so that the 'show' carry out.
This yes, the measures, restrictions, prohibitions or controls do not remove that it will be one of the Classical more contested and important of the last seasons in which the teams play everything in front of the eternal rival. To both only serves him a victory to convert , probably, in the only candidate to contest him LaLiga to the Athletic of Madrid. In definite, will be distinct, but equal (or more) thrilling that always.
