Andrea Montolivo Chicago (USA), Feb 4, 75,000 spectators. Tickets over $1,000. These are the numbers for the Charlotte-Galaxy, which could break the American MLS spectator attendance record with 75,000 seats sold. Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández’s Galaxy would surpass Atlanta’s record, which sold 73,019 seats in a 2018 match. MLS is preparing to write history this weekend. Charlotte FC, a debutant club in the American league, expects more than 75,000 spectators and sells tickets for more than 1,000 dollars for its home debut at the Bank Of America Stadium, in what will be the most attended league game in the world so far. goes from 2022. It will be the Los Angeles Galaxy of the Mexican “Chicharito” Hernández and the Brazilian Douglas Costa, the rival of Charlotte in a historic afternoon that, MLS sources assure EFE, will break the record of spectators never registered in the 27 American league seasons. UP TO 1,100 DOLLARS FOR A TICKET The cheapest ticket to access the Bank Of America costs 55 dollars, while the most expensive ones reach 1,100 dollars on the official sales platform “Ticketmaster”. Amounts that increase if it is considered that in the United States the prices indicated do not include taxes, which change depending on each state and are paid at the time of completion of the purchase. And it is a fact that confirms the growing interest of the American public in soccer, especially among young people, in a country that, according to figures provided by the MLS, invested more than 7,000 million dollars in the construction of facilities for this sport. The Spanish flag will not be missing at the Bank Of America stadium, as Miguel Ángel Ramírez is the manager of Charlotte FC and Catalan Ilie Sánchez will wear the Galaxy jersey. A city of deep sports passion, with the Hornets, owned by Michael Jordan, in basketball, or the Carolina Panthers in American football, madness broke out in Charlotte to accompany the “soccer” club in the first meeting in its history as local. The absolute premiere was last week and it did not end in the best way, as Ramírez’s team fell 0-3 in their visit to the more prepared DC United of Peruvian Edison Flores and Ecuadorian international Michael Estrada. But now you can count on a completely full stadium to support you and with all the comforts for the fan. It was drawn by the American architectural firm Populous, which built some of the most important stadiums in the world such as Wembley, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium and Tottenham Stadium in London, as well as Yankee Stadium in New York. FOOTBALL, SOCCER AND MUSIC It is a coliseum that regularly hosts the Panthers games and receives world-class singers and groups such as Elton John or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. MLS sources told EFE that Charlotte-Galaxy will break the record for spectators in the league and will leave Atlanta United, the true dominator of this classification, behind. The Mercedes Benz Arena in Atlanta received 72,548 spectators in 2019 for a United game against the Galaxy. The year before, in 2018, there were 72,243 registered for a United vs. Seattle Sounders and 72,035 for a United-DC United. Not even in the “playoffs”, the qualifiers that deliver the MLS champion title, were numbers like those expected by MLS in Charlotte, since the record is 73,019 spectators in December 2018, always with Atlanta as the protagonist. EFE am/jad
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