Deportivo Madryn president: Easier for us with Tapia, Toviggino | OneFootball

The president of Deportivo Madryn, Ricardo Sastre, confessed that "obviously" it is easier for them with Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia as president of the Argentine Football Association and with Pablo Toviggino as treasurer.

In an absolutely controversy-ridden series, the southern team won 1-0 against Deportivo Morón this Sunday at the Abel Sastre stadium and, by sporting advantage, qualified for the Primera Nacional final for the second promotion to the Professional League.

The 'Gallo' was the greatly disadvantaged team in this tie and will go down in history as such in this playoff for the second promotion. Penalties not awarded in the first leg at the Nuevo Francisco Urbano stadium, an unbelievable suspension of coach Walter Otta for statements he never made, a clearly non-existent foul that resulted in Deportivo Madryn's 1-0, reckless tackles that went unpunished even with a yellow card, and, as the cherry on top, the brawl at the end of the match that ended with the southern team's players attacking their colleagues, technical staff, and Deportivo Morón's officials from behind who, to make matters worse, returned to Buenos Aires subdued by the police with batons and pepper spray.

"Obviously it is easier for us with Tapia and Toviggino, we have a very important participation. Not only in being considered as an institution, but in representation for the AFA assembly schemes," the president of Deportivo Madryn, Ricardo Sastre, had assured the Argentine News Agency a month ago at the presentation of the Federal Amateur Regional Tournament.

After having lost the final for the first promotion against Gimnasia de Mendoza at the Ciudad de Vicente López stadium on penalties just over a month ago, the aurinegro team landed in the quarterfinals of the playoff for the second promotion and faced Gimnasia de Jujuy, one of the main protagonists of Zone B of the Primera Nacional that finished fifth and reached this stage after drawing 0-0 with San Miguel and advancing by sporting advantage.

On Sunday, October 19, at the 23 de Agosto stadium in Jujuy, the 'Lobo' from that province was winning 1-0 against Deportivo Madryn with a goal by Alejandro Quintana at the end of the first half, but the referee Lucas Comesaña claimed to have been pressured and intimidated in the locker room during the break, did not come out to officiate the second half, and suspended the match.

Finally, the Argentine Football Association ruled against Gimnasia de Jujuy and awarded the match to Deportivo Madryn by 3-0, setting a dangerous and unfair precedent for sports competition in which, with incongruent complaints, a match can be won off the field.

Thus, with the 1-0 in the return leg, Deportivo Madryn advanced to the semifinals where they faced Deportivo Morón, a team that had finished fourth in Zone B and had eliminated two major protagonists of the season without conceding goals: San Martín de Tucumán and Atlanta.

With a 1-0 in the first leg - which could have been more -, the team from the West of Greater Buenos Aires went to Puerto Madryn with the hope of being one step away from returning to the Primera, but the unbelievable sanction to their coach Otta for criticisms he did not make against Tapia and Toviggino, began to extinguish that flame throughout Deportivo Morón.

Otta had to watch the decisive match from a stand at the Abel Sastre stadium along with the club's management delegation, and his assistant Félix Benito took charge of coaching the team that, from the initial whistle by Pablo Echavarría - in a very poor match -, began to suffer from refereeing injustices.

A clearly non-existent foul by Juan Manuel Cabrera at 14 minutes into the game that resulted in Santiago Postel's goal for the 1-0 of Deportivo Madryn, reckless tackles that went unpunished even with a yellow card, and, as the cherry on top, the brawl at the end of the match that ended with the southern team's players attacking their colleagues, technical staff, and Deportivo Morón's officials from behind who, to make matters worse, returned to Buenos Aires subdued by the police with batons and pepper spray.

Thus, the two teams promoted from the Primera Nacional to the Professional League will be teams from the Interior of Argentina, from Mendoza and Córdoba or Madryn, strengthening the premise of federalism advocated by the Argentine Football Association.

The federalism of Argentine football is something valid and even indispensable but not at any cost, with controversial refereeing decisions and teams favored with extreme obsequiousness, as were the Buenos Aires teams Deportivo Riestra and Barracas Central in previous editions of the Primera Nacional. Next year, the Professional League will have 30 teams, of which 11 will be from the Interior of the country, 11 from the province of Buenos Aires, and 8 from the Federal Capital.

Additionally, since the 2014 Primera Nacional Transition Tournament, fourteen teams from the Interior of the country have been promoted to the elite of Argentine football.

The stadium of Deportivo Madryn, the Abel Sastre, has a capacity of 8,000 people, less than seven stadiums in the Primera B Metropolitana and six in the Primera C. However, despite this, the venue was inspected by AFA and approved to host national football teams.ZzIh8g

In this context, it is added that it has been 40 years since a team from the south of Argentina played in the First Division, the last being Alianza de Cutral Có in 1986. Deportivo Madryn has the opportunity to break that streak, but the question is: is the club, the stadium, and the city prepared to host teams the size of Boca or River?

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