Matías Lammens: “We have to think seriously about having a visiting public on the courts again”

Matías Lammens said on Wednesday that “we must seriously think about having a visiting public on the courts again” of Argentine football and put at the center of the debate an issue that seemed forgotten. I say it beyond football, I do it as part of society. It cannot be that we resign ourselves to intolerance, to the fact that two people with different shirts cannot live together on a football field,” said the Minister of Tourism and Sports of the Nation in statements to La Red radio. Lammens explained: “I am going to propose a meeting with the security ministers of all jurisdictions, we have to start having a public view,” he reiterated Argentine football banned visiting fans in 2013 for the First Division after the crime of Javier Gerez, from Lanús, at the Unico stadium in La Plata. The man received a shotgun from a police officer from La Bonaerense. In the Ascent, meanwhile, the ban came much earlier, in 2007, after the murder of Daniel Cejas, from Tigre, after the Promotion with Chicago.” My idea is that we can enable visitors again and that the club that wants to do it, can do it, “said the minister and highlighted in reference to those seen last night in the match between Boca and San Lorenzo by the definition of the Summer Tournament that “yesterday was a party, except for the result (ndr: Lammens is a fan of the Cyclone, many families and children in the stands, a party.” Asked if Argentine society is in a position for visitors to return to the fields, Lammens said that we must aim to banish the bars of Argentine football: “With the bars we must begin to take serious measures that involve all the powers of the State,” he said. Football returns and will demand the sanitary pass to the fans

In this sense, the minister spoke in favor of vaccination in the midst of the pandemic and said that by February 4, when the official Season of Argentine football restarts, “the idea is that there is a sanitary pass in football, that there is no capacity, that the capacity of 100% in the stadium is released but that there is a sanitary pass.” Reiterated.

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