Daniel Avellaneda
07/11/2020 - 19:59
- Clarín.com
- sports
Claudio Tapia's face did not admit double readings. The AFA president was angry. He insisted as much as he could, but lost the compulsa by beating. With the exception of Bolivia and Venezuela, the rest of the federations approved the return of the Copa Libertadores for September 15. It was 7 to 1 , with the aforementioned abstentions and a single vote against, that of Argentina, which wanted to resume activity in October along with the South American, which will begin on the 28th. And with the announcement of Conmebol, on Friday by night, an inmate broke out between the clubs and the government.
"Evidently, it was a somewhat arbitrary date that Conmebol set. Perhaps they think that by then everything will have happened, but for now it did not happen and we are seeing it in America. Yes, we have met people from the AFA who, as soon as this episode ends, after July 17 we are going to start talking, "said Ginés González García, Minister of Health, in the morning. "When to come back is strictly a decision of the AFA, but we say if the conditions are there and they are clearly not at the AMBA," said Matías Lammens, head of the Tourism and Sports portfolio, in the afternoon. On the agenda of the Quinta de Olivos, for now, there is no meeting with Tapia.
The words of the officials fell heavy among the leaders. Especially, in those that lead clubs that participate in the Libertadores. "On Monday we will send a letter to the AFA to find out if we can start playing the Cup a week later," José Lemme, president of Defense and Justice, told Clarín . Will it be in the week of September 22?
"We want, at least, to have some advance so that two or three players can train in groups," added the Falcon strongman. Víctor Blanco had raised this possibility a week ago. Racing's boss wants, if possible, that the practices begin immediately after July 17, when the "strict" quarantine in the AMBA (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area) will end. Boca and River are on the same page. From La Bombonera, they even believe that they could even do a preseason in some inland province less affected by the coronavirus. Tigre, from the First National, also claims to train.
Will the cupbearing teams have privileges? What will be the end of that conference in Tapia in which he said that training would return when the whole country "is in phase 4"? It will be impossible. For costs and logistics, the safest is that the Primera teams will return before.
Tapia aligned itself with the government's health policy. She even gave up the Ezeiza estate to set up a field hospital. The tension with Kirchnerism, which threatened to intervene in football, died down two weeks ago, when Chiqui smoked the pipe of peace with Gregorio Dalbón, attorney for Cristina Fernández and Miguel Licht, a federal fan fan of Atlanta denounced by Pablo Toviggino. The executive secretary of the presidency and the president of the AFA himself had to surf the scandal of private flights that revealed a journalistic investigation of Jorge Lanata. The defeat at Conmebol turned out to be another setback.
The Government did not like the decision of the South American body led by Alejandro Domínguez. Much less, that last week the leaders came out to mark the field. Above all, Nicolás Russo, who spoke of dates. Pope de Lanús said that between 5 and 10 August training could begin and in September, football. And although he is a man close to Sergio Massa, president of the Chamber of Deputies, his sentence made a noise in La Rosada. Just in the week in which the curve with a record of contagions began to grow, the expression of the garnet leader seemed misplaced near Alberto Fernández .
In the middle of the tug-of-war, the leaders start to get restless. They note that in the rest of the region they have already taken advantage. Brazil, the country most affected by the pandemic, announced that Brasileirao will begin on August 9. "The rest of the countries decided to continue with the show without caring about the deaths," Ginés complained. But the ball will roll again in South America, although Argentina looks at its own navel.
