“These attitudes and changes hurt, you feel groped because the economic values for which you play are modified, but the illusion that we were going to play a cup abroad also hurts”Lenzi remarked.
Boca Juniors as champion of the Professional League and Patronage of Paraná, as crowned in the Argentine Cup, will have to play the Argentine Super Cup, which was scheduled for January 21, 2023 in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.
But last Monday the Executive Committee met at the Ezeiza venue and decided that it be “another meeting to be designated” the one to be played in that Middle Eastern country.
In dialogue with Télam, Lenzi recalled that “the same thing happened in the Argentine Cup with the venues”, when they had to play with River Plate in Córdoba but “they changed it to San Juan, to travel 1,000 more kilometers than the poor fan and partner pays for which is always there”.
The leader stated that “these are things that should not happen in this type of event,” but that the Board “cannot do anything” because “the organizers and those who manage the AFA are them.”
Still, he considered “The people will rise up against it and will try through this to change this system, change the form, and these leaders”.
He also confirmed to this agency that the Entre Ríos club will request “the corresponding explanations and we will act accordingly” because although “we cannot organize or do anything, we will take our disagreement.”
Finally, he stressed that “there are points against but also positive points” since if the match is played in Argentina “it will be seen by many people from the Board of Trustees.”
At the same time, the governor of Entre Ríos, Gustavo Bordet, was “very hurt” and described the decision of the AFA as “dispossession”, and assured that these leaders “did not like that the Board of Trustees came out champion”.
“If it had been a big team, it would have played for sure” in Abu Dhabi, the president remarked at a press conference.
In that sense, Bordet pointed to “powerful interests of the AFA and economics” behind the decision “because it is about the Board of Trustees, people from the interior” but that “deserves the same respect and treatment as any club.”
“Sometimes,” he continued, “what is cooked in the Federal Capital has little to do with what is federal, which later results in the Argentine Cup and was won in good law by Patronato, a club from the interior that mobilizes an entire province and was proven”.
For the Governor of Entre Ríos, it is “one more dispossession and discrimination” suffered by the Paraná club, since “they punished him throughout the championship and now it seems that he did not like that he became champion and they punish him again.”
“We should not be claiming this, what corresponds corresponds and if there was something stipulated, it must be fulfilled, it does not matter who qualifies”Bordet concluded.
Source: Ambito
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