There will
be no fans or audience, when
football reopens in Denmark in late
May - due to the Covid 19 virus the games
will be played behind closed doors.
But at the first game after more than two
months without football in
the country, the fans will still be able to take part in
the game and enjoy the togetherness and the
community with the fellow fans - even though
they are not allowed to come to the
stadium.
It sounds like utopia in these
Covid
19 times, but
in Aarhus - where
the local 3F Superliga-club AGF will play the first game after the
lock down in the best tier against local rivals Randers
FC - AGF is planning
to celebrate the reopening of Danish football
with a world premiere on a new digital football
experience that brings
the fans and the community together like
we have never seen before in football.
The new
digital initiative, which requires no less than 23 men to execute
during the match, is
being run in collaboration with the international digital video
platform, Zoom.
It will be
a kind of virtual stadium to which you pick up a
free ticket - and as the match begins, you gather with those
who have a ticket to the same virtual grandstand
section. And there are 22 different sections to choose from - just
like a regular football stadium. So, there
will be room for both home fans,
neutral spectators and away fans - but
only virtual.
The digital
initiative will see several
screens to be
set up in the middle of the home-stadium of AGF, Ceres Park,
- here the fans watching from their virtual grandstand section will
be shown. So also, the
players of the match will be able to see and feel the support from
the living rooms directly at the
stadium - at a healthy distance, but still close
at
heart and to the football.
- It will be
the first tournament match in a long time. We are celebrating that
with a historic digital initiative, and we are proud to be the
first club in the world to use it. Now it
seems that we have to do without spectators for a while, so maybe
we can inspire a similar initiative at other clubs that can also
benefit from it in the coming time, says Jacob Nielsen, CEO of
AGF.
Get your tickets to the virtual
grandstands here >>>
