Gustavo Oliveiravice president of marketing and communications at Flemishcurrent administrator of Maracanãexplained why the stadium was released almost 70 thousand seats for the game Botafogo against the Criciúma this Friday (10/18) – something that doesn’t usually happen in red-black team games.
According to Oliveira, the match valid for the 30th round of the Brasileirão-2024there was no need for a greater blockade of seats close to the visiting sector, as the number of Criciúma fans must be small and there is no rivalry between the fans. As a result, more seats were made available. The Botafogo fans exhausted their tickets.
– When you have games where the opponent is bigger, a tougher game, the police end up taking away all of the visitor’s bottom half. I don’t even know if they managed to negotiate with Criciúma to not have that visitor space, perhaps putting the fans in boxes, I don’t know, but they will certainly have that lower part of the visitor area freed up, because there will be few people from Criciúma. It is not a fan base that will generate clashes with the Botafogo fans, so they can carry out this occupation. We manage, in some games, to do this too, occupy the southern part below the visitor – explained to “Red-Black Paparazzo“.
– The maximum occupancy of the Maracanã today, for normal club games, is 70 thousand. When it’s a more popular game, with opposing fans, it goes up to 65 thousand. You can’t do much more than that – completed the Flamengo director.
According to the official game organization minutes, released by Ferj69,950 seats will be available at Maracanã. A total of 55,573 tickets were put on sale, in addition to 2,608 amenities, 4,451 free tickets by law, 5,019 captive seats, 2,217 boxes and 82 grandstands.
