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January 29 – Dimitris Papastergiou, Greece’s Minister of Digital Governance, has described the introduction of digital tickets for soccer matches within the nation as an enormous success.
A yr in the past, the Greek authorities launched the digital id system to fight soccer hooliganism in stadiums, linking tickets to people and addresses. In line with the Greek minister, the introduction of digital tickets has achieved its purpose.
By way of the digital stadium entry system, in each the Tremendous League and in Greece’s basketball league, greater than 1.01 million tickets have been recorded, with nearly 75% of them in soccer (greater than 752 000) and the remainder in basketball (almost 267 000).
The digital course of has fully upgraded the extent of safety within the stadiums, making them safer and enhancing crowd ambiance, mentioned Papastergiou (pictured).
Annouced final February by Deputy Minister of Sports activities, Yiannis Vroutsis, and Papastergiou. It was carried out in April 2024 in soccer and in September of the identical yr in basketball.
“Greater than 1,000,000 tickets for soccer and basketball matches have been recognized by way of Gov.gr Pockets, our digital pockets. That is clear proof that residents have totally understood how the digital stadium entry system works. With easy and easy-to-use technological instruments, we introduced innovation to sports activities, exhibiting that residents are able to undertake new media. Sports activities followers “embrace” digital options as they realised in observe that they improve an space of their every day lives that they love very a lot, sports activities,” mentioned Papastergiou.
“The results of this acceptance is that since final March, the picture of the stadiums is totally totally different. It has regained its sporting character, disproving those that predicted that the measures wouldn’t succeed. This was, in any case, the purpose set by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the start, and we moved on this route in collaboration with the Deputy Minister of Sports activities, Yiannis Vroutsis: for the stadiums to be locations of sports activities, in addition to fields of pleasure and honest competitors.”
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