Seven thousand tickets sold for the stadium by 30,000 seats, but the match was played without fans

Maybe it's Christmas spirit. Yesterday, in the 1/16 round of Germany's Cup, Dinamo Dresden, currently in the third category, hosted Darmstad (a club playing in the second division) home.

For the match, 72,112 tickets were sold, at the time the stadium contains a little over 30,000 at the time of Coronavirus. However, safety regulations were fully observed.

The stadium, in fact, remained strictly empty. The game was played, as usual, with the sadness of closed doors. But with a quick account, more tickets have been sold on just two occasions in Dinamo's history.

In football, the economic crisis caused by pandemic has particularly put inferior categories clubs in trouble. There, ticket revenues are the lifeline of every society.

Almost a year after the closure of the stadiums (though in Germany they reopened for a period at the beginning of the season), lost revenues have begun to weigh.

Dynamo Dresden has decided so he can sell tickets to the match against Darmstad anyway.

A symbolic gesture of solidarity, which was very successful at Christmas. With 72,112 tickets sold (with 5 euros each) the club thus collected 360,560 euros.

There are some people who have invested time and money to show us their proximity yet, as it were, the coach of Dinamo, underlined Marcus Kauczinski. It's really something very special”.

After the European transfer to Belgrade in 1991 (there were 95,000 spectators) of the one present at Dortmund in 2011 (73,100 spectators), this is the third match in the history of the Dresden Club, for which more tickets have ever been sold, but the first for home matches. Only two things went into the evening: Because of the wind, the club had to give up choreography with 30,000 balloons that would have been attached to the seat: there was fear that they could fly into the field and prevent the performance of the match. Even the outcome of the match was bad: Dinamo lost 3-0. Despite this club and fans, they can smile. With the Christmas spirit they managed to send a beautiful message of love and solidarity. Entering history with what will remain the race with more tickets sold for the house games of Dinamo.