Boca and Racing are already in Abu Dhabi where they will face each other for the International Super Cup to define who will be the first champion of 2023.
Xeneize, champion of the 2022 Professional League tournament, and the Academy, winner of the Champions Trophy disembarked at the International Airport of the Arab city waiting for the game on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in our country.
At a quarter to five in the Argentine afternoon, close to Arab midnight, Boca arrived at the Hili Rahyhaan hotel where he will stay while waiting for the game.
Ibarra calmly got off the bus along with the 30 footballers, including four goalkeepers, including Agustín Rossi.
Another detail is that, despite his ligament injury, Marcos Rojo did not want to miss the trip and accompanied his companions on this 22-hour journey.
Although they traveled on the same plane, the teams will stay in different hotels.
While Boca will do so in the aforementioned, Racing will settle in the Radisson Blue Al Rain.
Those from Gago got off the Micro half an hour later.
The venue for the match will be the
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, located about 150 kilometers (an hour and a half by car) from Abu Dhabi
.
After the historic conquest of the Argentine national team in the World Cup in Qatar, Argentine soccer will resume with the dispute of a disputed trophy in the United Arab Emirates.
The referee will be the World Cup player Fernando Rapallini, who will be assisted by Juan Pablo Belatti and Diego Bonfá
.
The arbitration team will be completed with Pablo Echavarría and Gabriel Chade as fourth and fifth, respectively, while Héctor Paletta will be in charge of VAR together with Fernando Espinoza and Pablo Dóvalo.
The two teams will arrive this Monday night in Abu Dhabi on a shared charter flight that took off on Sunday afternoon from Ezeiza and will begin to prepare for the game that will be played on Friday at 12:30 p.m. in Argentina.
Fernando Rapallini, who has just directed Qatar 2022, will be in charge of arbitrating in Abu Dhabi.
(Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)
Why will the International Super Cup be defined in Abu Dhabi?
This final is part of a commercial and sports agreement signed by the AFA and the Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC) in June last year.
The Hazza Bin Zayed stadium, where the final of the Argentine Super Cup will be played.
The contract, which includes the dispute of the Argentina International Super Cup for the next four years, came into force in November of last year with the preparation of the Argentine national team prior to the World Cup in Qatar and the friendly against the local team, led by the Argentine Rodolfo Vasco Arruabarrena.
The recent history
The final of next Friday will also have the seasoning of the last antecedent of the exciting definition of the Champions Trophy on November 6 in San Luis
.
On that occasion,
Racing kept the title after the decisive goal by Carlos Alcaraz, recently transferred to the Premier League for 13,650,000 euros (plus an extra million bonus)
, in the 117th minute to make the game 2- one.
That goal by the former Academy player had a controversial celebration and sparked a fight between the two teams that led to a festival of expulsions by referee Facundo Tello that left Boca with six players and without the possibility of continuing the match.
Carlos Alcaraz, author of the goal that gave the Academy the coronation, was transferred to Southampton.
(Photo: JUAN JOSE GARCIA)
From here arises the second controversy around this International Super Cup since the AFA authorized the ten protagonists who were expelled by Tello in La Pedrera.
The value of the tickets
The Abu Dhabi Sports Council promotes the match through official channels, but the final has not yet been reported in the local media.
However, the price of the tickets is already known, which will be divided into six different categories.
Their values will be 7, 28, 42, 56, 70 and 98 dollars respectively.
"The country of silver is actually a 'Gold Mine'"
, they published on the official account (@AbuDhabiSC) which also made different plaques to remember the previous Super Cup champions such as Arsenal in 2012 and River from the last edition. in 2019.
Outside of the controversies, the International Super Cup or the Al Ain Super Cup will be the first title at stake for world champion Argentine soccer and both Boca and Racing will do their best to add a new star.
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