CHAMPIONS
LEAGUE
in the Norwegian championship, sea
son ticket buyers are offered preferen
tial treatment when it comes to pur
chasing tickets for Cup games and
- here comes the crunch - European
matches. The club announced that
every season ticket sold by 17 January
would give the purchaser the right to
buy one ticket for the Juventus
game...and promptly sold 6,600 before
the deadline! In the corresponding
period of 1996, the club sold 2,500.
The match is the climax of a two-week
boom in Trondheim. The Nordic Skiing
World Championships started on 20
February and finished just three days
before the Juventus game. Hotels in
Trondheim and the whole of the
Trandelag region had long-been fully
booked and some late arrivals had to
find accommodation in Sweden! Over
300,000 tickets were sold for the skiing
championships and some of the com
panies involved in the event have
bought season tickets at Rosenborg so
that their employees can see the game.
Dag Svinsas, the club's Press Officer,
has suffered from what might be called
a snowbal effect. So many of the 1,100
media reporters accredited for the ski
ing wish to stay in Trondheim to see the
game that the Press Boxhas been
overbooked. "I was hoping to see all
the Championships myself," he says,
"but this match is giving me so many
problems that I'll only be able to sneak
away for the odd session. But I wish I
had problems like this all the time!"
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AC Milan's French striker,
Cristophe Dugarry, is
sandwiched between the
Rosenborg defenders, Jon
Olav Hjelde and Bjorn Torre
Kvarme, in the UEFA
Champions League match
at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.
PHOTO: BUZZY
