Barcelona set a world file for attendance for a girls’s match with 91,553 supporters attending Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal towards Real Madrid at Camp Nou.
The earlier file crowd for a girls’s recreation has stood since 1999, when 90,185 followers watched the World Cup closing between the USA and China on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Nevertheless, some estimates recommend 110,000 folks attended Denmark’s win over Mexico on the Azteca Stadium within the 1971 World Cup closing, a event that was not formally sanctioned.
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In membership soccer, the prevailing excessive previous to Wednesday’s Clasico was 60,739, set when Atletico Madrid hosted Barca in a league game on the Wanda Metropolitano in 2019.
Barca normally play their house video games on the 6,000-seater Estadi Johan Cruyff on the membership’s coaching floor, however this match was moved to Camp Nou to accommodate the larger demand for tickets.
It’s simply the second time the European champions have performed a aggressive recreation on the 99,354-capacity stadium, and the primary time with followers. Final season’s 5-0 win over Espanyol was additionally performed at Camp Nou, nevertheless it was performed behind closed doorways as a result of coronavirus restrictions. Barcelona won Wednesday’s game 5-2 to undergo to the semifinals 8-3 on combination.
“At the end of the match I had to hold my tears back because this is just too crazy,” Barcelona winger Caroline Graham Hansen advised reporters afterward. “It’s one thing is to play at Camp Nou, but when it’s full, winning 5-2 in the Champions League and the fans aren’t leaving, they’re staying to celebrate with us!
“I didn’t think about something prefer it, goosebumps far and wide. It is not solely 91,500 right here tonight, it is 91.500 Barca followers right here tonight they usually have been singing all recreation and it has been superb. It is one thing I by no means dreamt of occurring, however we did it and hopefully it isn’t the final time we do that.”
Success on the pitch has fuelled interest in the team, with Barca ending last season with a treble, which included a first Champions League trophy.
They have already won the Spanish Supercopa this season and clinched a third successive league title with a 5-0 win against Madrid earlier this month. In the Primera Division, they have won all 25 of their matches, scoring 138 goals and conceding just seven.
Individual recognition for captain Alexia Putellas has additionally elevated the highlight on the group. The club captain won the Ballon d’Or on the finish of final yr and adopted it up with FIFA’s The Best in January.
“This may be the beginning of a brand new period,” Putellas said in a news conference ahead of the game. “This recreation goes to encourage lots of people, particularly women. I did not think about it [was possible] as a result of I simply noticed males, which is why I say it may open many doorways for many individuals.
“I knew I could play football, but it did not seem accessible on this scale. That’s why this match can mark a before and after because Barca are the biggest club in the world and they have a voice.”
