Any trick is worth it to get tickets for the Copa del Rey final. Some fans of Athletic Club de Bilbao have obtained the tickets in Mallorca that they did not obtain in Bilbao, taking advantage of a trip to the island to spend the holidays. The vermilion club had put on sale today the only 700 tickets that were left free for non-subscribers to buy and the tickets flew this morning.
Although it was mandatory to show an identity document to prove residence on the island and that the tickets were nominative, some fans have obtained their tickets thanks to the help of Mallorcans, according to Diario de Mallorca.
Basque citizens who reside in Mallorca have also passed through the club’s ticket offices and could also obtain tickets without paying. Mallorca has given priority to subscribers to obtain the more than 20,000 tickets that have been made available to the club for the Cup final, the second that the team coached by Javier Aguirre hopes to obtain after it was achieved in 2003, in that occasion with the help of Gregorio Manzano as coach.
The odyssey to get tickets in Mallorca is completed with the challenge of mobilizing thousands of fans in just a few days from the island to Seville. Charter flights and boats have been chartered to the peninsula and many fans have chosen to travel to other airports near Seville, such as Malaga or Jerez de la Frontera.
The Balearic president, Marga Prohens, sent a letter to Minister Oscar Puente to ask him to subsidize charter flights for fans since the resident discount does not apply to them, but the request has fallen on deaf ears. The specific flights will leave Mallorca on the same day of the meeting and will return to the island at dawn once the meeting has finished.
