Review: Primera A League Discussion Thread [R]

***Clears throat...***

 

We have a new team in the Primera A!

A new face to the Superliga next season! Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero have beaten Sarmiento on penalties to snatch promotion! What a moment! https://t.co/7MUyHFc8ED

— GOLAZO (@golazoargentino) June 8, 2019

 

So a team that won 9 games last season and finished 6th, and zero wins in the promotion playoff final got promoted over the team that finished first? Good lord, I see the stupid formats aren’t limited to the Superliga.

 

At least in England the top 2 go through guaranteed. The playoff is for the 3rd spot.

 

Right. That is one difference. The other is 3 rounds of promotion playoffs (8 teams instead of 4); and long season versus a short one (40+ games compared to 25).

 

Percentage of minutes given to players 34 and over amongst the following leagues:

SuperLiga🇦🇷 14.2%
Super Lig🇹🇷 6.1%
MLS🇺🇸🇨🇦 6.1%
Serie A🇮🇹 5.8%
Liga NOS🇵🇹 5%
Liga MX🇲🇽 4.7%
Ligue 1🇫🇷 4.6%
Eredivisie🇳🇱 2.1%
Bundesliga🇩🇪 2.1%
Premier League🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2% pic.twitter.com/AZe1mpPzOa

— MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) June 27, 2019

 

So the 2019-20 fixtures are out.

Season kicks-off on the weekend of 26-29 July
River v Boca: Aug 31
Racing v Independiente: Feb 1
Last weekend of the first round: Feb 29/Mar 1

Will this be the last mickey-mouse season before returning to a proper single-table next season with 22 teams? hmm.. might have to endure 2 more.

 

I think so. I thought the original plan was by 2021-2022 the league would go back to 20 teams to undo what the fat fvck did

 

Yes, definitely 20 teams for 2021-22. I'm just thinking: I supposed its feasible to do a single-table, double round-robin with 22 teams for 2020-21. That would mean 42 matches for each team, which is a bit high but doable.

The format that is being implemented this season doesn't work too well with 22 teams. But I suspect they will still use it. So 21 rounds followed by a cup round where the top 12 from the first phase play another 11 matches against each other (32 matches total).

 

So how many games will it take for @RiverGaucho to call DDR a violent thug?

I’m just fooling, of course.

Kinda...

 

I'm not gonna pin a ton of hopes on the guy given that he's 36 and all but it is cool that one of these big European names that always profess about wanting to play in La Bombonera actually goes to make it happen. He could have easily gone to MLS or Saudi Arabia or whatever to make a couple more million but instead he goes for the passion of the game. I respect that and hope it works out well for him, more than whatever benefit he might bring to Boca.

 

I do respect De Rossi for making a move based on passion rather than making money in MLS or China. He was also wanted by other Italian clubs including Fiorentina, but out of respect for Roma, the team he supports, he went to Boca.

I do however find when players from other countries profess their love for boca because of maradona to be a bit strange. While its true that Maradona is a boca fan and has a box at la bombonera, he is also a fan of newell's, argentinos juniors, and a bunch of other clubs. I think at one point he professed his love for Ferro. There's also the point that at the time that De Rossi was watching Boca, Maradona was actually probably Boca's worst player. He missed 5 penalties in a row, and these penalties would have actually won Boca the Clausura i believe it was in 96. He won only one title with Boca, and while he was brilliant that year 1981, there's no denying that his presence and poor penalty taking cost your club points in his second spell.

It would be like River having a statue for Mario Kempes- but even that would be more worthy because Kempes never cost River points as he stayed in europe at the end of his career. Or River having a statue for Alfredo Di Stefano. Yet we know these players are more identified with Valencia and Real Madrid and while they did their parts to win a few titles for us, there are tens of players who have done more for the club. Boca should have a statue for Manteca Martinez or Oscar Cordoba or Jorge Bermudez, yet they have Maradona for what i can only assume are for marketing purposes.

Having a statute of Maradona because of his fandom for the club, is like River having a statue for Guillermo Villas or Gabriela Sabatini. ITs quite frankly pathetic.

 

As it seems Independiente is likely to sign Lucas Romero. Would be a key player for Becacecce. Thought he was one if not the best player against River for Cruzeiro

 

One really good news:https://www.clarin.com/deportes/diego-maradona-presentado-manana-tecnico-gimnasia_0_dVUKVUxGf.html

 

Good news? I really don't understand why Gimnasia is doing this. They're already in relegation territory, they better hope this doesn't finish them off. Maybe Maradona can give them a boost in morale the way he did for Dorados, but I wouldn't count on any actual coaching he does.

 

Its really sad to be honest.

You see Gimnasia fans buying jerseys with Maradona 10 on the back... The guy is the coach for gods sake! And unlike a River fan wearing a Gallardo jersey or a Boca fan wearing a Guillermo jersey, Maradona NEVER played for Gimnasia and has no affiliation with the club other than the fact that they are the only team stupid enough to sign him.

How many practices will he miss?

How long before he blames someone else and then quits?

This is going to end in tears and its pretty sad to see these gimnasia fans acting like idiots.

Sort of sums up Argentina at the moment, sadly.

 

https://www.tycsports.com/futbol-de...entino-en-los-ultimos-diez-anos-20191231.html

 

I think the guy does a podcast with the Hand of Pod podcasters. I haven’t listened to them for a lonnnng time but there was an Andrés who supported El Rojo that was on the podcast.

 

What did they do?

And I was under the impression that there were still 12 more rounds left (pro/rel is determined after the full 34 matches), no?