Discussions that had been taking place for months, he said, suddenly gathered pace in recent weeks. (The forms must be accompanied by a photocopy of the front and back of each signer’s national identification card.) To officially launch their campaign, Duch, a tax adviser by profession, and a handful of other members arrived at the team’s headquarters last Wednesday. There they were provided with boxes upon boxes of the required forms — 32,000 in total — that they loaded into cars and vans. In normal circumstances, getting the forms in front of the team’s members would require little more than stationing volunteers outside the club’s Camp Nou stadium on match days and handing them out.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 22:07 UTC