Dédé tells fans to f*** off, 'I’m not flogging Juve-Barca tickets'

An irked Norman Darmanin Demajo basically told football fans “to f*** off” and stop chasing him for Champions League final tickets.

The 6 June final will see Barcelona against Juventus, the Italian football giants who are still on for the treble.

“Following numerous phone calls that I have received during the day I would just like to clarify my position with my ‘long lost’ or ‘new found’ friends,” the President of the Malta Football Association said, almost sarcastically.

Id-Dédé, as he is more commonly known, said he was the president of the Malta Football Association – and not of UEFA – and his interests were the Maltese football and its clubs.

“I do not care about Juventus or Barcelona – they contribute nothing to Maltese football!” he said, adding that he would be more willing to provide callers with tickets for the FA Trophy semi-finals between Valletta and Birkirkara and Hibs and Qormi, “at the standard selling price”.

With the cheapest €70 Category 4 tickets going on sale at a whopping €1,500, the average Champions League fans – or more so the Juventus or Barcelona fans – are unlikely to get a chance to watch the game at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

The prices for the four categories shot up last night after Juventus, thanks to a 58th-minute goal by Alvaro Morato, passed to the Champions League final against Barcelona on June 6.

The demand for the tickets increased after UEFA only allocated 20,000 seats to each side in the 70,500 stadium. According to reports, with a further 6,000 tickets going on general sale, 24,500 seats were put aside for sponsors, corporate partners and UEFA members.

It this expected that more than 400 million will tune into the Champions League final.

The ‘limited’ seating has however pushed the prices as high as €16,620, encouraged by UEFA’s decision to open applications for the international public between 5 and 23 March.

Each applicant was asked to complete the online application form for a maximum of two tickets and entered the ticket lottery, regardless of the time of submission during the application period.