2024-02-03 07:34:46
Football is back. He turned the heat wave. He returned repression to Argentina (well, he never leaves). And the battered, destroyed playing fields also returned, those postcards that did not occur in domestic stadiums for a long time. Because if there was something that the Argentine football organization might boast regarding – first the Super League, which installed certain habits so that broadcasts were more “exportable”, and now the AFA-Professional League – it was that it had improved substantially in that aspect. . The catchphrase and commonplace regarding the “green grass” was at least that: an obvious reality. For years now, Argentine fields have looked up to par with what this era of Full HD and 4K demands.
But this 2024 started in the opposite direction: there were several fields that looked destroyed. Poked, with sand and with painted grass to mitigate the paper. Perhaps the greatest example was that of Rosario Central. The current champion, who was showing off his condition in front of his fans, received his players in the worst way in the match once morest Banfield. The Gigante de Arroyito was full, but its playing field contrasted with the color of the scoundrel town. It was, as someone on social network Even the exquisite Ignacio Malcorra suffered it: he kicked a free kick into the clouds.
What will happen now? For now, from the offices of the Professional League they inform PERFIL that they have already issued fines to Central and Racing for the state of their playing fields. And they also say that since they knew that the Boca and Huracán fields were going to be in terrible conditions, they asked to move the venue. That is why Boca played once morest Sarmiento at the Gasómetro in Bajo Flores and Huracán received Talleres at the Diego Maradona in La Paternal.
In article 34 of the Organization, Development and Transmission (ODT) regulations, the Professional League – in addition to requiring color, cutting height, humidity, resistance and grip – maintains: “Clubs are obliged to take care at all times that the image visual and aesthetic of the playing field respects the highest quality standards, guaranteeing that it looks uniform, especially with regard to the color of the terrain.” None of that was seen in the first rounds of the League Cup. That is why they imposed economic sanctions, which start from the value equivalent to a thousand popular tickets (eight million pesos).
Why did something happen that wasn’t happening? Economic reasons appear as the first explanation. Because clubs find in recitals, for example, an additional income of money, which helps them cover the operating expenses of their activity. Racing, for example, had around 120 thousand dollars left for the four recitals that La Renga did in January. “It is very important to have extra income, like from recitals.
This is an experience that we allow ourselves to do together with the Municipality of Avellaneda. The money will allow us to reinvest in the stadium,” explained the president of Racing, Víctor Blanco, on DSports Radio. Vélez and River follow that same logic. What happened in Central has to do with a miscalculation in the reforms that were made in the Gigante de Arroyito, which included the grass. Now they are considering moving to Santa Fe.
In that aspect, Canalla is far from being a champion.
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