Argentine Sports Club of Monte Maíz is living a unique year, since it turns 100 years of historyand will also have its sporting debut of the season against Boca for the Argentine Cup in what will be the most important party since its foundation.
This Wednesday, starting at 9:10 p.m., “El Raya”, as the team from the southeast of Córdoba is popularly known, will try to make history in the 32nd round of the tournament. The meeting will take place at the stadium of Columbus of Santa Fewhere there will be 3,500 locations available for the supporters of the blue and white cast.
The team belongs to the city of Solo 8,000 inhabitants, which, far from regretting, celebrated when it was announced who would be his rival during the draw that took place on December 20. For that very reason, all the inhabitants They move to see a meeting without precedent for their history.
“We will have the opportunity to face, perhaps, the biggest club in the country, a national and international champion, a historic one and one of the most recognized in our football. It will be a pleasure,” the club posted on its X account when it found out about the game they had to play.
“For us it is touching the sky with our handsa tremendous emotion, something really wonderful,” he acknowledged, for his part, Claudio Nebbiathe president of the institution that competes in the Federal A Tournament from the 2022 season.
The story of Argentino de Monte Maíz
Argentine was flanded on November 18, 1925 and he spent his first years of life under another name: Deportivo Nacional. According to the official website of the entity, “the name change, ordered on June 17, 1934, was due to compliance with a Decree of the Executive Branch of the Nation (presidency of Agustín P. Justo) that prohibited the name Nacional in the country’s clubs, so as not to generate confusion with the National Team”.
When “El Raya” gave birth, Boca was already in its second decade of life and had just starred in the first European tour of a club in our country, an invitation to play that had been extended to the Argentine Football Associationbut that entity never responded to the invitation for a team with its best values to appear for three months on soccer fields. Spain, Germany and France.
After this stage, which was completed with 15 winsone draw and three losses, the blue and gold team was officially declared Moral Champion of the 1925 tournament. In those founding times of Argentino de Monte Maíz, the cast of the Buenos Aires Ribera already accumulated 613 matches playedincluding a first presentation in Córdoba.
This Wednesday, the Monte Maíz club will be the sixth Cordoba institution to face the xeneize in its history, along with Belgrano, Workshops, Institute, Racing de Nueva Italia and Students of Río Cuarto.
The Córdoba team never played in first or second divisionalthough it did play in the third category five times and is a historic team of the Federal A. Was two-time champion of the fourth division.
Boca against Argentino de Monte Maíz for the Argentine Cup: schedule, formations and where to see it
The meeting will take place from 21:10 in the stadium Brigadier General Estanislao Lópezbetter known as the Elephant Cemeteryfrom the city of Santa Fe. The referee will be Luis Lobo Medinaas defined by the organization.
Mouth is the top winner of this competitionwith four titles. The first was in 1969in the only edition that was held until 2012, year in which he won it again. He also lifted the trophy in 2015 and 2021.
During this Wednesday’s meeting the premiere as a starter of the newly incorporated Ayrton Costa, Carlos Palacios and Ander Herrerawhile the only headache for Boca’s technical director, Fernando Gago, was the defender Cristian Lema is out due to injury due to inflammation in the right ankle and his place would be taken by Lautaro di Lollo.
Argentino de Monte Maíz, for his part, is active in the Federal A and will seek to give the big surprise against one of the teams that arrives as tournament candidate.
Probable formations and other details of the match
- Argentine Cup – 32nd round
- Stadium: Brigadier General Estanislao López
- Referee: Luis Lobo Medina
- Start time: 21:10. TV: TyC Sports.
- Mouth: Javier García; Luis Advíncula, Lautaro di Lollo, Ayrton Costa, Marcelo Saracchi; Santiago Dalmasso, Ander Herrera, Carlos Palacios; Exequiel Zeballos, Edinson Cavani and Joaquín Ruiz.
- Argentinian from Monte Maíz: The coach has not yet given details about the training.
Source: Ambito
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