Deportivo Camioneros , the
Moyano
team
that last Sunday was promoted to the
Federal A Tournament
after defeating Altos Hornos Zapla in a controversial duel match with two penalties in favor and two rivals expelled, will begin its path this Wednesday in the
Amateur Promotional Tournament
when from 5pm visit
Estrella de Berisso
.
What you read is what has never happened in the history of Argentine soccer: Camioneros - founded in 2009 - will play
two tournaments at the same time
in 2024 , the Federal A and the Promotional Amateur.
How
Hugo and Pablo Moyano
's team can compete in two championships simultaneously is something that the
AFA
should explain .
From the cast that is based in Esteban Echeverría they assure that the Promotional is a pilot tournament and that for that reason they will be allowed to participate.
It is worth clarifying some issues: Federal A grants tickets to National B and Promotional Amateur two tickets to First C. What would happen if Truck
wins in both championships
?
“We should choose between one and the other;
It depends on what they tell us in AFA”, they confided to
Clarín
from Camioneros.
Another possible scenario could be that by 2025 the club maintains its place in Federal A and gets one of the tickets to play in Primera C. What would happen?
He would lean
towards the second option
since he would be directly affiliated with AFA.
Pablo Moyano and his son Facundo, scorer and captain of Camioneros.
Truckers Press
He had to overcome Truckers setbacks, the club explains.
And given the possibility of only playing in the Amateur Promotional Championship, the majority of footballers over 26 years of age went to other institutions.
One of the conditions of this "amateur" tournament that will have its first edition in 2024 is that the footballers be under 26 years of age and not professionals.
"At the beginning of the year, the goalkeeper, a center back, the number 5 and the scorer, the entire backbone, left," they lament.
To compete in the two tournaments, Camioneros is putting together a great team led by
Federico Urciuoli
and supported by
Sebastián Brunet
.
And the presences of Facundo (25, forward) and Nicolás (21, midfielder) Moyano,
both sons of Pablo
, the president, stand out.
The two will also be able to compete in the Federal A and the Promotional because they do not exceed the age limit.
"It is a pride that they took us into account. They valued what we have as a club structure, from youth to women's soccer," said
Alejandro Colón
, in charge of Camioneros soccer, on the club's official website.
In any case, this year will be very active for Truckers, who will go with the same team
along two alternative paths
in search of continuing to expand their nascent history.
And this afternoon, in La Plata and against Estrella de Berisso, he will kick off the Amateur Promotional.
The controversial rise
Involved in a great controversy and with very striking rulings by referee Marcelo Sanz, Deportivo Camioneros beat Altos Hornos Zapla de Palpalá by 2 to 1 and was left with the fifth and last promotion to Federal A, in the final for the Regional playoffs Amateur.
This is a new chapter in a saga of irregular situations that occur in the minor categories of Argentine soccer, with more well-known stories - such as the meteoric growth of Barracas Central and Deportivo Riestra, today in the First Division - and others not so well known - such as the recent promotion of Deportivo Rincón de Rincón de los Sauces to the antechamber of the Primera Nacional.
The match was played on a neutral field - the Juan Pablo Francia stadium, owned by Sportivo Belgrano de San Francisco, in Córdoba - and the team founded in 2009 by Hugo Moyano, which is based in the Buenos Aires town of Esteban Echeverría, made the difference thanks to two penalties - the first non-existent, since there was no foul by Agustín López, and the second highly disputed - taken by the referee that resulted in goals from Facundo Moyano, 36 minutes into the first half, and from Iván Pereyra, after the 38 of the final part.
The Jujeño team, which concluded the match with only nine players due to the expulsions of Maximiliano Vargas, at 23 minutes into the second period, and Joaquín Barro, at 42 minutes, was able to score a goal through Pedro Santillán, at 45 minutes, but it was not enough. the stopwatch to reach the equality that would have made it possible for them to go to a penalty shootout.
Everything would have been different, surely, if the questioned Sanz did not annul a goal by Altos Hornos Zapla forward Jesús Guaymás when 11 minutes into the initial half after one of his assistants scored a non-existent offisde.
The helplessness of the Jujuy team was such that goalkeeper Nicolás Tonini broke down and burst into tears as a result of the indignation caused by Sanz's refereeing.
In addition, there was anger from Zapla fans, who stopped the game and delayed the execution of the second maximum penalty.
Coach Martín Martos also saw the red, who could not understand how the field had tilted.
In this way, Deportivo Camioneros will return to Federal A after a year in the Regional Amateur, because it had been relegated in the previous season.
It will be his sixth season in the category that allows him to make the jump to the First National.
The team from the South of Greater Buenos Aires, whose stadium and sports complex are in Nueve de Abril, on the old Camino de Cintura, will land in the category together with the aforementioned Deportivo Rincón de Rincón de los Sauces, Kimberley de Mar del Plata, Gutiérrez Sport Club de Mendoza and Sarmiento de La Banda, who had won the four direct promotions.
38 teams from 16 provinces will compete there.