Only 8,000 tickets sold
But, beyond this wink, the forced exile – the Marien stadium does not meet UEFA standards – hurts an entire club. There will not be many of them in the national stadium, where only stands 1 and 3 were open for this Thursday’s match. They will not even be filled since, initially, around 6,000 tickets had been sold. “Several Brussels organizations and businesses had the opportunity to buy tickets at half price (€12.5). This is the case for students from ULB and VUB and staff from UZ Jette (Editor’s note: hospital) located near the stadium“, RUSG announced this Wednesday. We would ultimately be closer to 8,000 spectators, so online ticketing will remain open until noon.
guillementIt’s up to us to do the job despite the context.
This remains a very low figure for a European meeting and the 45,000-seat enclosure will look very empty. “It’s part of the club’s history now“, puts Sébastien Pocognoli into perspective, while Anthony Moris had been less friendly with the national stadium a few days ago. “Every year we have to find another stadium. The national stadium has a beautiful pitch and nice facilities. I understand the players’ feelings, but we will have to try not to pay attention to this context. There will be at least 7,000 supporters who will do the job. It’s up to us to do it too to bring together a larger number of supporters against Roma for example.” Because the new stadium won’t be there right away.
