The president of the AFA, as never before, gave his justification of the criticized format with which the Professional Soccer League is played and defended it with arguments. The details.
Claudio Tapia He broke the silence and spoke like never before the controversial format of the First Division of the Argentine footballdefending it by cape and sword. The president of the AFA He gave an interview, to Pedro Rosemblat (by “We are gelatin”), where he justified the number of equipment in the Professional League and even compared with the new tournaments of the FIFA.
“I also ask them: ‘Why do you want 20 teams?’began the ‘Chiqui’ about the format of Argentine football.
“We are trainers, there are 10 more teams in first and if there are 30 players on a squad, there are 300 more than you put in stained glass in the local league”he detailed. “Let’s stop fucking with competitiveness, discrediting everyone as they do”Tapia claimed.
It happened next, the 1 of the AFA exemplified: “Central Córdoba comes from winning Flamengo, who was the first time in the story he loses in the Maracaná for the Copa Libertadores. And he did not directed an Argentine referee, because when they win those teams here they say: ‘It is because Carlitos Balá or Chasman or Chasman’.”
In his extensive argument to justify the format of local football, Wall mentioned the changes in other competitions of the FIFA, like him Club World Cup and the World Cupwhich will increase its participants.
“How many of the East Club World Cup are played? How the previous or the last one? No, with more teams. And the Champions League? The next World Cup with how many selections will be played? And I even heard that by 2030 they want to promote more teams (Conmebol asked to climb to 64)”he compared to give credit to his format.
At the same time, the Argentine football president remarked that every time the ARGENTINE SELECTION He was world champion agreed that there were more clubs in the First Division: “Tournaments of more than 20 teams were from ’76/77 to ’86, which played the metropolitan and national. In the first 20th semester and in the second 30 teams. We left champions in the ’78, in ’86 and in 2022 with more than 20 teams.”
Finally he made a self -criticism about the ways of communicating this type of decisions: “We may fail to not explain it. From our point of view, commercially and sports, we understand that it is better. And when we make a decision it is because the Argentine soccer leaders raise it to me, I do not take them alone.”
Source: Ambito
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