$2,400 Dinner Helps Real Trump Barcelona in Stadium Revenue
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Real Madrid will come out the winner in its Champions League semifinal against Barcelona, at least at the box office.
Real sold about 4,500 premium tickets, some of which cost 1,652 euros ($2,413) and include dinner at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium’s Puerta 57 restaurant tonight. Those seats will garner as much revenue for the nine-time European champion as the other 75,000 ordinary tickets, and help it stay above Barcelona as soccer’s biggest team by sales, according to former Real president Ramon Calderon.