Daniel Avellaneda
08/02/2020 - 19:49
- Clarín.com
- sports
That politics is involved in football and that the decision depends much more on "what they will say" than on a health issue, there is no longer any doubt. Without going any further, the return to training will be defined this Tuesday at the Casa Rosada. All a testimony. And almost in accordance with the internal discussions that transpired before the announcement of the extension of the quarantine, in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires there are divided positions . While in the Province they do not want to know anything about making the ball more flexible , in the City they support the reactivation of the practices that they promote from the AFA.
Almost simultaneously, with a few hours apart, Fernán Quirós and Diego Santilli appeared on the media scene and supported the return of field work .
On Saturday night, the City's health minister said in TN: “We have no formal position, because it is not an issue that concerns us and corresponds to the global organization of the AFA. But I think that training sessions can be started perfectly if there is no group soccer practice and then, depending on how the pandemic evolves, start discussing that aspect. Players need a month to a month and a half minimum of intensive preparation. ”
And this Sunday the deputy chief of the Buenos Aires Government expressed himself in the same line as Quirós. “The City has already made a decision regarding Olympic athletes, who have to prepare in a year. We accompanied the Minister (of Tourism and Sports) Matías Lammens. The seven rugby team trained at the KDT and as many athletes did it at CeNARD, with which we are predisposed and prepared to accompany, with all the protocols that are necessary, and go through stages. "
Hugo's son, who was president of River between 1983 and 1989, added: "We can start with the teams that play the Copa Libertadores, which have previous training, and then continue with the rest."
The position of the Buenosairean officials does not seem accidental. In short, they follow the same line as Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. The head of the Buenos Aires Government is more prone to openness than the Buenosairean governor, Axel Kicillof. And in the City it has the two most powerful clubs in the country: River and Boca, no more and no less.
Nicolás Kreplak, vice minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires, is on the opposite sidewalk. "If it is essential that there be a tournament this year and it cannot be played, it should not be played," he launched a few days ago.
The five teams that compete in the Libertadores are part of the AMBA, the area most complicated by the coronavirus, where 59% of the 123 professional teams are based.
Boca, River, Racing, Defense and Justice and Tigre are already preparing the logistics for the return to face-to-face tasks on Monday, August 10. They will need, of course, the permission of the National Government.
This Tuesday it would be defined in the meeting that Ginés González García, the Minister of Health, will have; Lammens; Santiago Cafiero, Chief of Cabinet; Claudio Tapia, president of the AFA; and Marcelo Tinelli, head of the Professional Soccer League.
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