Football club Dynamo (Brest) has successfully prolonged the campaign on selling virtual tickets for home games of their main team. The semifinals of the Cup of Belarus between Dynamo and Shakhtar Soligorsk were watched by more than three dozen dummies with faces of those who bought tickets on the Internet. According to the official website of FC Dynamo (Brest), many more such virtual tickets were sold for the match of the championship against Isloch.
The geography of the club’s voluntary investors has also expanded. The club promised to use part of these funds for the fight against coronavirus in Belarus. Now virtual fans from China, Qatar, Ireland, USA and Austria were seen on the stands of the regional sports complex Brest. In addition, VIP-guests were also virtually present — prominent figures of Belarusian and international football, journalists, as well as footballers and coaches who had previously played for the Dynamo (Brest) club. The cost of tickets has not changed in comparison with the first campaign — about 67 BYN (approximately $ 27).
In the past, similar campaign was organized in Germany but in a slightly different format. Starting from March 19, the Lokomotiv club from Leipzig, playing in the regional league (4th division of the German championship), has been selling tickets much cheaper than the champion of Belarus: only for € 1 at a match with an invisible opponent. The goal is to raise funds to fight the coronavirus. In the middle of the day on April 15 the club crossed the threshold of 130 thousand virtual tickets sold. According to Alexander Voigt, the vice-president of the club, when launching such a campaign, they could not even imagine that in three weeks it would reach 120 thousand spectators:
“We are delighted with this support. And if such an excellent willingness of fans to donate their own funds will remain, we have the opportunity to set a European record.
And the current record was set just under 83 years ago — April 17, 1937 — when 147,547 tickets were sold for the match of the so-called home championship of Britain between the teams of Scotland and England at the arena in Hampden Park in Glasgow. And this figure is still the highest officially confirmed number of spectators in Europe.
Alyaksandr Putsila,belsat.eu belsat.eu
