E-Tupeira: Miguel Bento says Benfica had four thousand tickets to be handed out before the games – Benfica

Miguel Bento, Commercial and Marketing Manager of Benfica, was heard this Wednesday as a witness in the context of the e-Tupeira process, where he explained the club’s policy on offering tickets and invitations. The policy of offering invitations has always been quite common.

“The invitations are being issued. It was already known that there were four thousand invitations that could be offered before the games. When we talk about four thousand, it overlaps. All kinds of people are coming, ”he explained, although he shows that this policy was stopped with the pandemic:“ This practice is not applied in practice only after Covid, that is, this year. Before Covid, 4,000 tickets were issued. “

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The director of the first line of eagles also notes that he was not worried that Paulo Gonçalves requested 25 invitations per game. In fact, he even considers it normal. “Paulo Gonçalves asking for 25 invitations is not unusual. If he had institutional ties in the field of football with the leagues, UEFA, the Federation, players, businessmen, it is natural that he would be the most demanded. It would not have helped Meaning elsewhere. 24 tickets is not an abnormal number of invitations. And if there were more of them, it would not be abnormal. The request for 20, 30 or 40 tickets didn’t put me off at all. Professional football alone received about 300 invitations per game. We’re talking about a soccer team. There are no irregularities in 24 or 36 tickets … ”, stressed the official Benfica, who was the first to be heard on the justice campus, from where he went to Guimaraes, where today Benfica plays for the Allianza Cup.