In just over an hour, River fans sold out the 4,000 available tickets to see the team Marcelo Gallardo in Brazil before Atlético Mineiro for the first leg semi-final of the Copa Libertadoreson Tuesday the 22nd. In this way, the team that leads the ‘Muñeco’ will have in Belo Horizonte the support of a large number of River Plate fans who will fill the assigned place in the MRV Arena, with capacity for 47 thousand spectators.
Tickets went on sale this Tuesday from 10:00 through River ID, only for members, who sold out quickly. In this way, the members of Somos River, whose sale was going to be enabled from 5:00 p.m. if there was any remainder, were left without the possibility of purchasing.
For fans who are in the country, tickets, at a price of 40 thousand pesoscan be exchanged at the Monumental this Thursday the 17th (from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.), Friday the 18th (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and Saturday the 19th (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). On the other hand, there will also be the chance to complete the procedure on Monday the 21st (the day before the game) at the Ouro Minas hotel in Belo Horizonte, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. For both places, the club announced that the withdrawal of physical tickets must be made by presenting the printed proof of purchase and a photocopy of the ID of the holder who purchased the ticket.
With reciprocity criteria, Atlético Mineiro fans will also have 4,000 seats in the Centenario Alta in the rematch, so there will be fewer places available to River fans (they will drop from 85,000 to 81,000) after a quarterfinal series without visitors against Colo Colo. In the MRV Arena, the River Plate fans will be located in a corner, between the Inter Oeste and Inter Norte sectors, at the top of the stadium.
At the same time that the River fans who managed to get the tickets begin to prepare the trip to Belo Horizonte, there will also be attention paid to security, since the last visits of Argentine teams to Brazil were traumatic due to the repression of the Police of that country. In fact, recently, in the second leg of the round of 16, San Lorenzo fans had a bad time at the Arena MRV, where Leandro Romagnoli’s team fell to Atlético Mineiro and was left out of the Copa Libertadores.
Photo: DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFPAnd not to mention what happened last year, in the final of the highest continental competition, when Boca faced Fluminense at the Maracaná in Rio de Janeiro. Both in the days before and when entering the stadium, the Xeneizes fans were attacked by Flu bars and repressed by the Police.
Something similar happened to the Argentinos Juniors fans when they went to cheer on their team against Fluminense, also in the 2023 edition of the Cup. In that same scenario, the police officers wreaked havoc with the Argentines who had gone to watch the duel. of Argentina with Brazil for the South American Qualifiers.
In the latest history in Belo Horizonte, both in 2015 and 2019, the two times it eliminated Cruzeiro (the first with a 3-0 win and the other by penalties) in Mineirao there were no major problems. Now, in Núñez it is expected that maximum precautions will be taken so that River fans do not have a bad time.