48 hours before Maccabi Tel Aviv's game of the season in the European arena - Game 5 of the EuroLeague playoff quarterfinals series against Monaco - the French team announced on Monday that all tickets for the game were sold out and that its home arena, Sal Gaston Medsin, which seats 4,600, would be full.
After the two early games in the series held at Sal Gaston Midien, in which 600 yellow fans provided an electrifying and homely atmosphere, this time the French worked to reduce the number of tickets they would transfer to Israeli fans.
After Game 4, the leaders of the Israeli and French teams reached understandings and agreements that the team from the principality would transfer 450 to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, the same amount that was eventually transferred at the end of the first game.
Due to the fear of tickets leaking and a home atmosphere for the yellows in the fifth and decisive game, the Monaco chiefs decided to violate the gentleman's agreement made between the sides and transferred only 150 tickets to Tel Aviv, a third of the promised amount, a sum that will be used by the team for its fans, officials and players' families.
The reason for Monaco's claim of the reduction in tickets and the new allocation was due to police and local security requirements.
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