2023-10-22 06:00:47
Just two months ago, in this same newspaper, we were going to publish a note about the contrast between Racing and Independiente. A contrast that was economic but above all sporting: while one was playing in the Copa Libertadores and had led the group that he shared with Flamengo, the current champion, the other needed the collection of an influencer to pay debts, suffered setback after setback and came dangerously close. to the relegation zone.
Two months later, the situation was almost completely reversed. Argentine football is sometimes unpredictable. And journalism, we already know, tends to be oscillating.
Because although Racing maintains a certain economic and financial order, the fury of its fans due to the team’s repeated setbacks – elimination of the Libertadores against Boca, of the Argentine Cup against Huracán and the defeat in the classic at home – generated the resignation of Fernando Gago led the team and altered the institutional tranquility that its president, Víctor Blanco, has led for a decade. The model club, a symbol of management, ceased to be one from one day to the next: now there are those who ask where all the dollars raised from sales are and those who cannot tolerate more defeats.
On the other hand, Independiente found in Carlos Tevez a safe passage to control the fire of a management that, six months after taking office, received the resignation of its president, Fabián Doman, and which then received a second resignation – under the cover of a de facto license – for the candidacy of Néstor Grindetti in the province of Buenos Aires.
Carlitos, however, managed to lift the team out of the relegation zone and took it to the top of its zone in the League Cup in just two months. He directed eight games and still did not lose: he won five and drew three. Now, the leadership wants him to stay until the end of his term, that is, the end of 2026. Words in the wind in a football where what dominates a decision is the result.
“Carlos gave it a football identity and convinced the players that they were there for something else. We are excited game by game. The club has been growing, it is playing better and better. “We want him to stay until the end of his term,” said Independiente general secretary Daniel Seoane, who acts as the president on a day-to-day basis. Seoane went from being insulted at the door of the club headquarters to enjoying these days of happiness.
The same thing that Seoane promised Blanco had promised with Gago this same year. Already two years on the bench at La Academia, Gago received the offer even when the team was eliminated from the Libertadores. A month later he had to leave due to the general anger in the Cilindro, made explicit with songs and insults.
If the dynamics of football reverse moods, Argentina – or actually the Argentine economy – equalizes economic asymmetries. In Independiente, many candidates rejected the offer for these reasons, as is now happening to Racing. It doesn’t matter how much money is available: no offer can be seductive with a sky-high dollar like the current one. “The problem is not Racing, it is Argentina,” they excuse themselves in La Academia when they refer to the rejections of Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Hernán Crespo, two coaches who were paid in dollars (and a lot) abroad. El Rojo arrived at Tevez almost by chance. “I don’t even know what I signed,” he admitted at the presentation press conference. What came next no one expected.
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