The fans are in a frenzy:
all the tickets that were allocated today (Tuesday) for the historic match of the Maccabi Tel Aviv volleyball team in the Challenge Cup final against Olympiakos, were sold in just 5 minutes.
The interest among Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and volleyball fans in Israel in this game is great.
Every day the Maccabi Tel Aviv offices received hundreds of calls and messages from fans interested in purchasing tickets for the game.
Maccabi Tel Aviv set a uniform price equal to each person for all the stands in the Shlomo Group Hall - 35 NIS including commission, which led to the big rush, when later on, the team is expected to thaw a number of additional tickets.
Maccabi fans celebrate with the players, photo: Oren Aharoni
This morning, the European and Greek Volleyball Federation approved the advance of the match in Tel Aviv by three days, and it will take place on Sunday 3/5 at 8:30 PM at the Shlomo Group Hall in Tel Aviv.
The return match between the two teams will take place in Greece on Wednesday 3/15.
The organization of the final match in Tel Aviv requires special evaluations from Maccabi Tel Aviv's point of view, which involves many financial costs.
The chairman of the association, Doron Shitrock, appealed to the sports institutions for special budgetary assistance for the record match: "The dream European trip of the team, which for the first time put Israel at the forefront of the sports stage in European volleyball, put the association into an unexpected financial challenge and without the help and support of the sports institutions in the moments of truth It will be very difficult for us to deal with this economic challenge."
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