The return of Nantes handball players to Hall XXL of the Beaujoire exhibition center is this Tuesday, December 7, at 8:45 p.m.. In 2020, due to the coronavirus, there had been no XXL saga with a change of site to be able to accommodate more people. The first of three matches in this 2021 edition is of the Champions League against the Portuguese Benfica Lisbon. Some 9,000 people are expected. The other two meetings are scheduled the 11 opposite Chambéry and the 14 against PSG. These are league matches and the evening of the 14th against PSG is sold out with 10,000 tickets sold.
Volunteers and ushers who will ensure that no one takes the mask off
In the space of one week, 30,000 hand-hand lovers will be welcomed in this XXL Hall. Obviously, in the middle of the fifth wave of the coronavirus, the club is getting organized. If the prefecture has not imposed a reduction in the number of spectators, those aged 12 years and 2 months will have to present a health pass. Furthermore, wearing a mask will be compulsory.
“We have created a covid brigade. Volunteers who will ensure that spectators wear the mask properly and keep it throughout the match. The ushers will also ensure that”, specifies the club communication department. This message will be repeated by the speaker and also projected on screens. In total, some 200 volunteers, 13 club employees and many service providers will be on deck.
The hand is very family-friendly, people respect the rules “- Mickaël Gaignard, president of Ultr’H
9 to 10,000 people indoors, in the middle of the fifth wave, is that reasonable? : “I tend to say that there are always” pros “and” cons “”, says Mickaël Gaignard, president of Ultr’H, a club of supporters of HBC Nantes, “but in the idea everyone is supposed to have their sanitary pass, their mask. The hand is very family-friendly, people respect the rules”. This is what he notices in Mangin, the “little” house in H, the usual den of the people of Nantes.
In the queues, the club says it will invite everyone to keep a certain distance. Ditto at the refreshment stall or at the brasserie. Because these services, which represent significant economic benefits and where we inevitably take the mask off, are maintained.