People with invalidities benefited at the Champions League final of the best conditions. The organizers announced a special treatment, assistant throughout the match, plus special areas for people who have problems with sensory processing disorders, autism, ADHD or anxiety
The Champions League final between PSG and Inter can be a lesson that football clubs in Romania should put into practice as quickly as possible. In addition to the unprecedented organization and security, the European forum has organized the match to the smallest details and in terms of people with disabilities.
Priority access to the stadium and help throughout the final
For this match were available two types of tickets for accessibility: tickets for users of wheelchairs and tickets with low accessibility. At the purchase you could buy tickets for companions, if appropriate.
Once they arrive at the special access gates in the stadium yard, the UEFA volunteers staff taken over those with travel problems to the place in the stadium.
There were also guide dogs and assistance dogs.
Special food and dietary points
Once in the stands, these fans had special toilets, adapted to have access there with a stroller.
In addition, fans with disabilities also have a special area in normal toilets, where pios, for example, are at a level lower than the usual ones. There were 16 accessible toilets inside Allianz Arena.
Even in the food area they had a special house, where they had priority at any time of the match, the houses being properly marked in this regard.
Special buses for people with disabilities
On the day of the final in Munich those with disabilities were able to use the local public transport network without problems.
Arriving at the stadium, fans were taken over with special cars
Almost all the stations in the Munich transport network are accessible and designed to facilitate the boarding of fans with locomotor disabilities, offering additional ramps and technical equipment.
Moreover, there are various specialized taxi companies, which offer services for wheelchairs, ensuring ramp or lift access, and passengers can remain in their seats throughout the trip.
Sensory room for those with autism, ADHD or anxiety
The stadium was equipped with a sensory room, a specially designed space that offers a calm, safe and controlled environment for people, especially Children, but also adults, with sensory processing disorders, autism, ADHD or anxiety. For those who can find the usual atmosphere of the overwhelming stadium.
Whoever wanted to have access to this room and this special service had to resort to volunteers for accessibility, which wore throughout the Champions League final with an international accessibility icon.
Such a lodge also exists on the National Arena in Bucharest
The National Arena has become the first stadium in Romania that offers a special space adapted to the sensory needs of children and young people with autistic spectrum disorders.
“Thus, Loja 222 became the neuroatipic sensory lodge, a quiet space, decorated with fluid shapes and pastel colors, with sensory toys and soundproofing for small microbiists diagnosed with autism, thus facilitating their access to the stadium to watch matches,” as FRF announced.
The lodge dedicated to children diagnosed with autism has 10 seats and will be opened at all the organizing matches by the Romanian Football Federation, FCSB and Dinamo on the National Arena.
