Security plan for Unión in Copa Argentina and Colón in Primera Nacional | OneFootball

Fernando Peverengo gave details on how the security operations will be carried out both for the Copa Argentina match that Unión will play tomorrow in Rosario against Independiente starting at 8 p.m., and for the match Colón will have to play at home against Mitre de Santiago del Estero next Sunday at 6 p.m.

Unión, which is playing in the Copa Argentina, as you rightly said, against Independiente at Newell’s stadium. It’s an operation that has already been thought out, it is planned. Yesterday we had a good test related to the Copa Argentina.

It will be an operation similar to the one carried out yesterday, now thinking about Unión. Unión will be assigned the north section of the stadium. In other words, the two standing terraces were assigned, one to each club.

One, the north one, for Unión. The south one, for Independiente. It has to do with how the spaces are distributed and where the supporters will be arriving from as well.

Although both terraces have a total authorized capacity of 12,000 people, we understand that the organizers have released fewer tickets for sale. But it should also be clarified that tomorrow, up until match time, tickets will be sold locally. And, as I was saying, Unión will fill the North Terrace, and Unión supporters will also, in this case, fill the assigned seating section.

Unlike the last match, which was against Precuario, Unión will enter through Gate 5 and will be in the Tata Martino stand, which is the west stand. That is what specifically concerns Unión.

COLÓN VS. MITRE

And the second of the matches, which we are mainly dealing with here in Santa Fe, is Colón, where we did have to make a modification, or really a proposal from the mass events department. A certain concern because we noticed that a great many people had been entering the South Terrace.

We had an operation planned, and in the last match an unusual situation was recorded, at least for us, based on the figures we had been handling, where the South Terrace had more people than the North Terrace. And the bulk of the operation had always been deployed in the north section. So we are not going to scale back the north section because we understand it is working well, but obviously the entry for the South Terrace is being modified.

How is it being modified? The entry will be broader. People will enter through the same gate, they will come in through the auxiliary field. Instead of there being four checkpoints, there will be ten checkpoints staffed by UTEDYC personnel.

And in addition, once they pass the checkpoints, they will be closer to the gate leading to the playing field of the auxiliary field. Once they pass the checkpoints, both doors will already be open. People will now be able to enter through Gate 6 and Gate 7. But before that, as I said, there will be a containment area, and there will be, as at every stadium, a pat-down, because that is how security is ensured, and then validation with the membership card so they can enter the stadium.

There is a redistribution, that is what we are trying to say, because the operation itself remains the same. What is being reformulated, and where there will be more people, is in the UTEDYC staff, because it has to do with a greater number of entry checks. Where previously they worked with four turnstiles, they will now work with ten. We understand that with that, entry through Gate 6 should become smoother and more normalized, as I said, and opening both Gate 6 and Gate 7 through an internal sector, we believe, will be a necessary and fair measure.

The club has told us that lately, every time there is a new member, they are automatically assigned to the South Terrace. In other words, a new member as a general admission supporter, right? We understand that this was obviously a situation that had to be reviewed and reconsidered, because as I was saying, the hard, concrete fact is that in the last match we had more entries, the South Terrace had more people than the North. We had been more focused on the North.

So that is why, as always, it is a matter of looking, rethinking, and it is also true that in the last match people finished entering 40 minutes into the first half. So it is a situation to examine and think over, but also for the people, since stadiums always open two hours in advance. So if people go a little earlier, that will always help.

UNIÓN VS. INDEPENDIENTE

The truth is that sales opened today, but the expectation of the organizers is—they released, as I understand it, 3,000 general admission tickets for Unión, 6,000 for Independiente, and 1,500 and 1,000. That is the expectation they have; they are the ones handling it. In the last match, Unión played as the away team, it was a different stage, a different opponent, surely a different setting. There were practically, if I’m not mistaken, 2,300 or 2,400 people from Santa Fe. We understand that more people may go, but obviously that is stretching an estimate where there is no concrete data.

We authorized, as I was saying when we started the interview, we authorized both terraces, one for each side, the North for Unión, the South for Independiente. The terraces hold a total of 12,000 people.

Tickets will be sold on stadium day. What we did ask the organizers, as we always do, is that tickets be sold on match day at the stadium up until kickoff. So I understand that if more people go, they will easily be able to buy them. They will be able to buy them. That is the expectation the private company has.

Sure. The opponent changes, the stage changes, and then there will be greater expectations. The truth is I wouldn’t know how to tell you why they released that number of tickets. What I can explain is why we set up the operation the way we did and which sections we authorized.

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