Argentina. Biometric technology began to be considered by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) as a solution to attack head-on the serious problem they had for the control of bars in the country's stadiums, one of the most affected by the violence in football generated by this type of groups.
The AFA promoted this project having as an ally the National Technological University and the telecom company, taking as a first step the obligation of each fan to register for the National Register of Fans.
The use of biometrics in Argentine stadiums has helped to attack other problems, such as resale and falsification of tickets, in addition to controlling and placing face, name and surname to the barristas who enter each property.
Last August, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the implementation of the Sabed System (Biometric Access System to Sports Shows), a program paid in full by the federal government to install fingerprint reader technology in all stadiums in the country in order to control the barras bravas.
On game day, the police implement operations, which are composed of different security rings around the stadium, to check through portable readers (PDAs) of the magnetic cards of each fan, if they have or do not have a purchased ticket or if their credential is expired (the renewal is every five years). Already in the stadium, 2.10-meter turner-type doors were installed in the access area so that they cannot be climbed, and there biometric fingerprint controls will be used, so that each club is guaranteed a flow of up to 600 people per hour through each door.
