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Austrian soccer runner-up SK Rapid Wien presented his blue-red away jersey on Wednesday, based on the founding colors (more >>>).
At the start of the season, however, the home game against Admira in front of 10,000 fans on Friday night (starting at 6:30 pm on the LIVE ticker) is on the show, ahead of the move to the Champions League on Tuesday evening (20:30) in Ghent. The playoff is going.
“We are well prepared, our aim is to score all three points,” coach Dietmar Kühbauer said two days before the start of the Bundesliga. At the same time, he thanked Admira that the match will now take place on Friday and not on Saturday as originally planned to have more time to prepare for the game in Belgium. “It is an important game for us, one day it can help”, explains Kühbauer.
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Barisic: “We continue to use emergency power”
In the European Cup, Hütteldorfer has at least the group stage of the Europa League and therefore three million tickets secured thanks to a 1-0 win over Lok Zagreb in the second qualifying round of the Champions League. But you don’t want to settle for that and now you want to surprise yourself as an outsider in Ghent, to fill the club’s treasury in times of the crown crisis.
“In general, we must not forget that we are still using emergency power, the crisis is far from over,” emphasizes sporting director Zoran Barisic, who is very satisfied with the development of the team. “We got off to a good start with our promotion against Lok Zagreb. And now we are happy to finally be able to play in front of the fans again.”
The record champions (32 titles, most recently in 2008) were hit the hardest by the pandemic-related restriction on stadium capacity, with an average of 18,790 fans making a pilgrimage to Allianz Stadium last fall. Currently, a maximum of 10,000 is only allowed if the traffic light in Corona shows “green.” With the current yellow this number is halved to 5,000, with orange it is even reduced to 500.
Since there is still no legal basis for this “stoplight system curiosity,” as Barisic called it on Wednesday, the maximum possible number of fans can enter the stadium on Friday night. “We have the official approvals and feedback that we can plan against the Admira with 10,000 viewers,” says Christoph Peschek, Rapids’ commercial director.
Peschek: “Far from normal”
The opening game of the Bundesliga, therefore, will also be under special observation, because “we are the first big event since the restrictions with 10,000 spectators,” said Peschek, who hopes that “we will gradually return to normal and at some point In fully operational, because we play football mainly for our fans. “
The fact that the public is open again “helps financially, but here too we are far from normal,” Peschek said. “When even Borussia Dortmund had a loss of almost 44 million euros in the last financial year due to a lack of spectators in the stadium, you can see how important the matchday is.”
“And we as crowd shooters are greatly affected by this. This is already considerable economic damage, increasing considerably with 5,000 or fewer viewers. The 10,000 to 5,000 difference is in the seven-digit range for us,” he emphasized Peschek in an interview with the APA.
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