2023-12-31 08:14:15
1 Schwartzman, a year to forget. 2023 started badly (and ended worse) for what was the best Argentine tennis player on the ATP circuit. Little Schwartzman was left out of the Australian Open in the second round in a surprising way and began an endless decline. He started 2023 as number 26 in the ranking and closed it in position 114. He did not win any tournaments and admitted anxiety problems: “There are times when a little more anxiety grabs you and you lose control. It happened to me in other off-field situations.” The good thing is that he has plenty of talent, and now, in 2024, he won’t have to defend many points.
2 Basketball: lost glory. The Golden Generation no longer exists. And his last death rattle, which was reaching the final of the 2019 World Cup, was just that: a death rattle. The basketball team was left out of a World Cup for the first time in 40 years. In between, between 1983 and 2023, we won two Olympic medals, two world runners-up and countless continental podiums. Now, the only thing left is the pain of no longer being there: because the failure of not having qualified for the World Cup in February was added, in August, to having been left out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “We have to continue building. There is something good, there is something with a lot of talent, young people… The desire is there and we have to continue,” Facundo Campazzo played down the drama.
3 The Scaloneta festival before its people. Messi on the move, Messi raising the cup, Messi celebrating his 800th goal so that the National Team wins the first game following the World Cup in Qatar, perhaps the most desired and denied star in the history of Argentine football, who was conquered in the most World Cup epic. Messi got all the attention, but the party included all the protagonists and their families. Against Panama in the Monumental in Buenos Aires and once morest Curacao in the Madre de Cities in Santiago del Estero, the world champion team was part of an unforgettable celebration.
4 Domán, the fleeting one. Just 187 days following taking office as president of Independiente, in an election that affected the entire Argentine macropolitics, Fabián Doman resigned. It was not only a surprise: it was a mistake and a sign that he was not truly interested in taking charge of the fragile situation that the Avellaneda club was going through. In his place was Néstor Grindetti, who later requested leave for his candidacy for governor of the province of Buenos Aires, and who now plays the role of highest authority within the club, led on a day-to-day basis by the ineffable Champagne Group.
5 Messi’s pink wave. Since he announced it in an interview with the media SPORT and Mundo Deportivo, Miami changed his rhythm. The arrival of Lionel Messi at Inter Miami generated a revolution that far transcended football. Almost every corner of Argentina – and other countries as well – was filled with boys and girls wearing the shirt of a previously unknown team, while sports portals began to take an interest in the MLS and even in the calculations of how many points Inter needed. –last in the table– to reach the playoffs.
6 Aliases: Maratearojo. No one can take away Santiago Maratea’s status as sports personality of the year, even though his profession is that of influencer. At first there were doubts and questions, but in the end, Maratea achieved his minimum objective, which was to lift the debt that Rojo had with América, pay debts and disinhibit him. In total, the collection raised just over US$3.5 million, which, although it was far from the US$20 million that had been set as an initial goal, oxygenated the club’s coffers.
7 River, Central and Estudiantes, champions. El Millonario won the Professional League with some ease and forgot, at least for a while, the departure of the winningest coach in its history, Marcelo Gallardo. His replacement, Martín Demichelis, quickly adapted to the team, although his greatest frustration was on the continental level (River was eliminated in the second round of the Libertadores). Rosario Central was more memorable, for the simple reason that it had not won a league title (now the AFA considers it that way) since 1987. Miguel Ángel Russo will have a privileged place in rogue history: he returned to the club and took it out champion in a beautiful final once morest Platense, the other revelation of the League Cup. The two –River and Central– recently played in the Champions Trophy and River was crowned in Santiago del Estero by beating the Rosario team 2 to 0. The other champion of the year was Estudiantes, who won the Argentine Cup once morest Defensa y Justicia and celebrated following 13 years.
8 Tevez, the savior. Independiente was on the canvas and its fans already assumed that relegation was a more than certain possibility. Zielinski resigned and Tevez assumed technical leadership without too many expectations. “I don’t even know what I signed,” he responded when asked regarding the financial situation and the salary of his coaching staff. He wanted to go for glory, and he came close. Because he not only lifted the team but also won the Avellaneda classic in the Cilindro and took it out of relegation in a few dates. In the end, when the expectation was to enter the reduced team, it failed. Now, in 2024, we will have to see if the team – and the coach – are ready to make the expected leap.
9 Gago, a sad ending. Racing had been the best team in Argentina in 2022, despite not being champion of either the League Cup or the League. He was, yes, the one who played the most beautiful. But his fans got tired of being the moral champion, and asked for something more than that: to become champion. The Champions Trophy and the International Super Cup, both finals won once morest Boca, were an aspirin. In 2023, the elimination of the Copa Libertadores – due to penalties once morest Boca – and the defeat once morest Independiente at home exhausted the patience of a good part of the Cilindro, who insulted Gago, the players and even broke the club’s facilities. The departure of the DT decompressed, but the solution – or the collective desire – remains unrealized.
10 Los Pumas, so far and so close. Is it a performance to celebrate or to mourn? The Rugby World Cup ended in France and almost no one in Argentina agrees on the balance. It was a great performance by Los Pumas because once more, like in 2007 and 2015, they reached the semifinals of the World Cup. But in the semis, once morest the All Blacks, the difference was abysmal. And on top of that, in the match for third place, England won once more, although this time undeservedly, very different from how they had beaten the Argentine team in the group’s debut. More than acceptable, praiseworthy result, doubtful performance. This way you might contrast that feeling that remained following the World Cup.
11 Boca, not so visiting at the Maracaná once morest Fluminense. We can highlight the gray path only illuminated by the penalties saved by Chiquito Romero. We can highlight the largest mobilization of fans in the history of Argentine football, in which seventy, eighty or one hundred thousand people traveled to Rio de Janeiro without tickets, without money and without too many certainties beyond being close to their team in the dream. for winning the seventh Copa Libertadores. Or we can highlight the sporting result, which was an expected defeat once morest Fluminense at the Maracaná. All that meant the final on November 4 for Boca: the glory of its people and the sadness of the fall.
12 Riquelme and the triumph of the popular over the audience. As all the polls predicted in the previous weeks, marked by the very intense judicial dispute that had suspended the elections, Juan Román Riquelme won the presidency of Boca at the end of the year, on December 17. The idol was 30 points ahead of Mauricio Macri’s candidate, the former Minister of Modernization Andrés Ibarra, and became president of Boca, a position that when he was younger he had said that they would not let him assume due to his poor origin. Román reversed his role with Jorge Amor Ameal, who became the first vice president while Román will assume the highest authority until December 2027 of the club with the most fans in the country, which many of the people who managed it define as “the 25th province.” of Argentina”, not only because of its popularity but because of the millions of dollars it manages annually in its budget. “The popular won over the audience, the bostero people over the businesses that they wanted to impose at the expense of Boca,” a member of the list headed by Riquelme told PERFIL, on Sunday night, while progress was made in a scrutiny that ended at dawn.
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