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Packed House Of 61,299 Fans At Allegiant Stadium Watches World Soccer Powers Barcelona, Real Madrid In Las Vegas Saturday

Alan Snel

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 Story by Alan Snel   Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

A massive crowd of 61,299 packed Allegiant Stadium for a monster international soccer game between world futbol powers Real Madrid and FC Barcelona Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Officially speaking, Barcelona took the friendly match, 1-0, over Real Madrid.

One of the night’s significant features was that this soccer match generated one of the largest gates of ticket sales for an event at Allegiant Stadium.

Los Angeles-based Anschutz Entertainment Group brought the high-profile soccer match to Allegiant Stadium, along with Saturday’s friendly, as part of a five-game tour of international brand-name soccer teams playing over an eight-day period in late July.

Saturday’s game brought together powerful rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid, two of the best-known soccer teams in the world for the preseason match that was part of AEG’s inaugural Soccer Champions Tour.

And fans responded with massive ticket sales.

 

 

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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