He Barcelona Ask for a favor treatment to UEFA and has requested the highest European football agency that the First game of the next Champions Play it at homein order to have more time in the works of the Camp Nou and thus be able to play the first home match in this stadium. This is because UEFA forces to have The same field In the Champions League phase, so if they did not arrive on time at Camp Nou, they would have to play until January in Montjuic Olympic In European competitions.
Thus, Barça asks UEFA to alter To his convenience the calendar of the next Champions and that when he does, which will be a day after the draw of August 29, he put the first day a home match. This has confirmed it Joan Laportawho is confident that UEFA “allows us to play outside”, appealing to the fact that we now “have a better relationship” with the chairman Alexander Cefer.
That first day (of the eight that is composed of the League phase) of the Champions League is played from Tuesday 16 to Thursday, September 18. Laporta wants to play visitor to have more time with the works of the Camp Nou. Request that it be on the second day when they already play at home, dated on September 30 and October 1, which is in practice to have two more weeks of margin.
«What we have asked UEFA is that Allows us to play the first game away from home. The draw is August 28 and there will be seen. I hope UEFA allows us to play outside. We have a better relationship with UEFA. I respect the work that Aleksander Ceferin is doing, its president, and I think we can trust them, ”explained Joan Laporta in an interview in Mundo Deportivo.
If Barcelona plays the first home game in the Olympic of Montjuic (or the stadium, but not the Camp Nou), it would have to play the other three in that same stadium, so if it does not arrive on time with the works at the Camp Nou, the option of playing in the Culé stadium would no longer be possible. Hence Laporta insists on winning two more weeks.
This request from Barcelona to UEFA leaves open the option that the culés Nor do they arrive at Camp Nou at the first day of the Leaguewhich will be played on September 13 or 14. It should be remembered that the League facilitated things to Barcelona by placing the first three days of the next league away from home, so the Catalans will play the first game at home on the weekend of September 13 and 14 (day 4), which allows them to have another month of margin to continue with the works of their stadium and thus be able to arrive in time to play at the Camp Nou in Liga.
If the first day of Champions as a local Barça fears to arrive on time for the Camp Nou (September 16-18), there is also a question that you can reach the first day of the League, which is before.
