Boca-Gimnasia: “There are people who paid 40 thousand pesos for a ticket and then tore the seats out of the stadium stalls”

Boca and Gimnasia faced each other this Wednesday night for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup, where the xeneizes won on penalties after tying 1-1 in the 90 minutes. But the game was delayed for half an hour, since before the start of the second half they armed themselves riots in one of the stalls of the Marcelo Bielsa Coloso, the setting chosen by the organization to carry out the event.

In dialogue with Daily (El Tres) Gustavo Velázquez, coordinator of Mass Events and who was present last night, explained that They are working with the security cameras the stadium to clarify why the confrontation between both fans arose.

“We can’t avoid what happened last night. During admission there were 34 admissions of Boca bias that they did not have the right to enter the stadium. What happened was something similar to what happened in the game of Central and Peñarol in the Gigante de Arroyito. After that we have corrected several things and we were doing a mea culpa of the safety lungs,” explained Velázquez.

“We all know that many people follow Boca and they had sold all the seats. There are people who paid 40,000 pesos for a ticket and then tore the seats out of the stadium’s stalls.. We don’t know why the riots started. It seems that the people from Gimnasia started throwing projectiles at the Boca audience. But we will see that with the security cameras,” he explained.

“Something went wrong and we are evaluating that. At one point during the night a fence was knocked down in the popular Palomar, where the construction of the new stand is located, and from there came the projectiles used by the Lobo fans. If the four infantry groups were not in that area during the game, the situation could have been worse“he added.

Finally, to bring calm to the leper fans, Velázquez confirmed that The organization of the Argentine Cup will take care of all the expenses of the destruction of the Colossusespecially the seats torn out in the Maxi Rodríguez upper stalls, which will be missing for the next game on Saturday where Newell’s will receive Sarmiento de Junín from 5:15 p.m.

“The organizers spent until the early hours of the morning taking note of what happened and promised to recognize all the damage to the field. Newell’s is not going to pay anything, since that is agreed in the previous contract when the stadium for the match is requested.”.