The World Cup won by the Spanish team last summer does not seem to have changed things much in the Spanish Federation. At least, as far as organizational botching is concerned. Two weeks before the team plays one of the most important matches in its history, the Nations League semi-final, with a ticket to the Olympic Games at stake, the Federation has changed the venue of the match, which will now move to La Cartuja (Seville).
The problem arose when the schedules for matchday 26 of LaLiga EA Sports were known. Cádiz receives Celta at the Nuevo Mirandilla on Sunday, February 25, at 2:00 p.m. Taking into account that the Spanish team’s match is scheduled for Friday the 23rd (9pm), the Cádiz club had already warned that this could happen and that if there was not enough margin time to guarantee the optimal condition of the grass, they would refuse to play. give up their stadium for the Nations League semi-final.
This is what ended up happening and the Federation, which had not foreseen this scenario, has had to look for a plan B.
“The match was announced by the RFEF, based on the current agreement with the Junta de Andalucía on December 26. After knowing the League calendar on January 30, Cádiz CF has conveyed the impossibility of the National Team being able to play on their field this Friday and this has been communicated to the RFEF by the Junta de Andalucía, which has offered La Cartuja for this semi-final,” explains the Federation in a statement.
A nonsense that has caused the anger of many fans. And the tickets went on sale at the end of January, so many fans already had their seat purchased, as well as plane or train tickets and accommodation for those who wanted to travel to experience such a decisive match.
The Federation has apologized to those affected: “The RFEF regrets the inconvenience that this situation may have caused to fans, and will refund the amount of all tickets to those who had already purchased them.”
Therefore, the solution has been to move the semifinal to La Cartuja in Seville, a stadium that will also host the match for third and fourth place and the final on February 28. A botch that could have been foreseen, is that Cádiz has denounced that the club already warned the Junta de Andalucía – the one in charge of signing the agreement with the Federation – that the transfer of the stadium depended on knowing the schedules of its league day. Relevo even points out that Cádiz had not signed any agreement to give up its field, at the expense of knowing the schedules. Despite this warning, the Federation put tickets on sale for the Nuevo Mirandilla one day after the schedules for matchday 26 of LaLiga EA Sports were made public.
