Daniel Avellaneda
03/04/2020 - 10:58
- Clarín.com
- sports
The sketch is planted in an Excel file and was distributed among the leaders of all clubs. So, the question everyone asked, how to organize two short tournaments in a season full of competitions, was answered. Clarín accessed the draft exclusively.
The Professional Football League already has a start and end date for the first tournament, which will take place in the second half of 2020. It will begin on Friday, July 23, two weeks after the Copa America final, and will end on Monday 14 from December. The 23 dates will be played in 18 weeks and 6 of them will be played during the week. It will be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays that Conmebol has not scheduled duels of Libertadores or South American. There will be a "recovery day" - as it was called - for those parties postponed by exceptionalities, which could be linked to participation in the Cups. It is scheduled for the last FIFA Date of this year, when Argentina will play Colombia for the Qualifiers. It will be on November 17 between the finals of the South American (7) and the Libertadores (21).
The second championship will start on Friday, January 22. Without Copa América ahead, the 23 dates will be condensed in 20 weeks and only 3 days will be required during the week, since the first half of 2021 is stuck with the preliminary phases of the South American and the Libertadores. The "recovered" will be played during the FIFA Date of June 6 and the last date will be on the 13th of that month.
The Opening-Closing scheme, which in Argentina was used for 23 years, is the one that most seduces all the leaders, as Clarín advanced. And the last contest conceived under the orbit of the Super League will be May 31. That Sunday will play Racing (champion of the 2019 Super League) and River the Argentine Super Cup (champion of the Argentine Cup) in Santiago del Estero.
On the other hand, Claudio Tapia gave the order to start the VAR. In that sense, Federico Beligoy is working on the training of the referees. The Arbitration Training Director believes that he will arrive in a timely manner. Mauro Vigliano, the best qualified and World Cup in Russia 2018, would be in charge in the match that will open the era of technology in Argentina.
The VAR would reach the Super League by midyear. (Photo: EFE / Juan Ignacio Rocoroni).
There is still a formal meeting to formalize this calendar and polish some details. It will be next week, already with the clubs inside the country, whose leaders were summoned by Tapia. The breakfast that was going to be made in Ezeiza was canceled.
The claim of the 22 or 20 teams that appeared with the Super League fell in broken sack. The need to sustain the 24 clubs in the First Division has its political side: the Government wants two parties to be televised on minimum channels and outside the football pack. That will be another song, of course, and will depend on a negotiation with the North American chains that own the rights of the transmissions.