02/26/2020 - 19:22
- Clarín.com
- Opinion
The evening started early, but continued until dawn. There was roast, good wine and dessert flan, with dulce de leche, of course. Just under 20 attendees, some of them well known: Hugo Moyano, Marcelo Tinelli, Jorge Ameal, for example. One woman: Lucía Barbuto, president of Banfield. It was Tuesday night and the mandamases of Argentine football met at the home of Claudio Chiqui Tapia, president of AFA, to agree that all past time had been better and consequently the Super League, driven by almost all of them just four years ago , would cease to exist. And the Professional Club League would be born, a way of calling different from the same as always.
Because it turns out that the experiment carried out in the rhythm of the macro renewal ended up taking on a life of its own and this was no longer convenient for anyone or almost anyone: that of the Super League is (was, it will be necessary to say shortly) a typical case of fault defeat of his own success .
A short racconto is essential. Julio Grondona died, in 2014, we had to shuffle and hit again in football. The big clubs, displaced from the axis of power by the scheme armed by the supposed ironmonger of Avellaneda, saw the opportunity to stomp again. After several round trips, going through an unusual vote that ended 38 to 38 with 75 suffragants, there was no arrangement, and the AFA was left for Tapia and the Super League for clubs, which sought to copy with this system what elsewhere (England , Spain) worked and works well: a professionally organized first division tournament, in the manner of a company, with prizes and punishments.
Here it also worked well.
The agenda of the meeting of Chiqui Tapia and the leaders of the clubs.
Of course, that in some cases involved submitting to rules for which they were not all prepared , such as the penalties for not paying their players who faced clubs like San Lorenzo (Kingdom of Tinelli, who had put a nearby man, Mariano Elizondo, to manage the league). In others, it just happened that certain leaders saw that the thing was going and then ... why not handle it directly without having to ask anyone for an opinion?
But, above all, the Super League involved making transparent the economic management of football , from the sponsors to the broadcasting rights of the matches, with a clear and explicit share of income for each club. The box, in short, became impartial. No place for arbitrariness or special favors. And when there is so much money at stake, so much whiteness can be somewhat uncomfortable.
The change of hands both in the Casa Rosada and in Boca hastened the restorative reform. Alberto Fernández never liked the double command that existed until now between AFA and the Super League, which he also associated with macrismo, so he approved the new Professional League, which will be chaired by Tinelli. For its part, Boca (Ameal and Pergolini, rather) needs the unit to be able to move from the AFA vice presidency to the former president of the club, Daniel Angelici, who screwed to that armchair although he no longer manages the xeneizes destinations.
And so we arrived on Tuesday night in Cardales, a meeting so friendly that some even played the trick . Now contracts will be renegotiated, they will distribute seats, they will agree on a new system for the tournament, including descents and championships. What it always was, the same will be; what they always did will repeat , as Vox Dei sang half a century ago.
After all, we will all succeed together.