The Argentina League it is a total uncertainty for many at this point. It is clear that it will start in 2021 but it is still without official date or format. Various casts They analyze their stay in the category and others hope to give the blow and move up the category. Will playing in bubbles be an option? Will there be more teams? Let’s analyze the situation and its probabilities.
First and foremost, everything remains in the hands of what happens with the pandemic in the following months. The Argentine League would not start in January, in fact, March seems to be the closest date. The casts would start the preseason at the very beginning of 2021 to arrive with comfort and training shooting at the tournament itself.
While waiting for what will happen with the tourist season, it will also be known whether the teams will be able to travel or not. If the season opens and safe sanitary protocols are achieved, the matches would be played with a certain normality (although without an audience) and the bubble would not be taken as a real possibility. If the opposite happens, things will change to a different tone. It is impossible to think of a single bubble but a much broader division for its development.
The ADC evaluates playing with 32 teams, that is, four more than in the 19-20 season. One idea is to have 8 groups of 4 teams divided into two zones. One possibility would be to play between two zones (example Zone “A” vs. “B”) on a weekend. In this way, in four weekends the 15 games from each zone could be played (the last weekend those from the same zone would play each other).
It is not yet known what the teams. Oberá left the category (still Students did not make their presence official) and several casts of the Federal Tournament that aspire to be part. There are many doubts regarding casts from the South about their participation.
We will have to wait, that’s for sure. Beyond the moment, it is good to begin to see what the next Argentine League will be like.
La Rioja wants a square
La Rioja is excited to have its place in The Argentine League. According to the Riachuelo Club, which would be the representative of the Province to occupy that place, the general project folder of the institution was presented to the Adc (Association of clubs) (History of our club, Infrastructure of the Province, Presentation Scenario Superdomo Stadium where we will play the matches as local) with a view to participating in La Liga Argentina in the 2021 Season.
There was a meeting with the government of the Province, Governor Ricardo Clemente Quintela, who expressed his support and intention of growing the sport of said geography. Faced with this request, the club is awaiting a prompt resolution from the Club Association (ADC).
About this possibility Pick & Roll spoke with its president Pablo Montaña, who together with the Secretary of Sports, Recreation and Inclusion, Jorge Córdoba, and the work team visited the La Rioja Superdome together with leaders of the Atlético Riachuelo club.
This took place within the framework of beginning to work for the possible arrival of the Argentine Tournament (second category of national basketball), for which the Riachuelo club has already presented the participation request folder. The La Rioja Superdome will be the setting to fulfill this desire to have first-rate basketball in our province.
As host of the visit, the head of the Provincial Agency for Public Shows and Events, Yamil Menem, officiated. Along with the secretary Córdoba, the president of the Riachuelo club, Pablo Montaña, and the president of the Riojan Basketball Association, Miguel Gallardo, were present.
“This initiative started two months ago. It was a delusion of mine and of the commission as well. The club is 75 years old, it is very young in the field of basketball, since 2012 we began to play League B of the Province and we have achieved that same year the promotion, where we are currently “.
“It has been growing very rapidly, we have been in since 2013, we are a young work group that has grown steadily and year after year the club has new goals, things to fight for. I am convinced that if you trace long-term goals, you have to meet them yes or yes. “
“We are in a Federal Tournament that we play with all the boys from La Rioja. In addition to playing the Federal, we managed to realize our dream, which was to have our own parquet court. Having realized these two dreams and maintaining the category in the Federal, recently the issue of the League.”
“We started to deal with it, we had direct connections with the people who run La Liga Argentina, with the president of CABB himself, and they have been very accommodating to what we raised them. They are happy because seeing that our area is lacking in teams They would love for this to happen. It is more or less what they told us, in addition to the stadium we have in the province, the Superdome, which is a magnificent stadium where the Argentine National Team has played twice. We made that available “.
“The idea is to repatriate and give young people from La Rioja a great opportunity to make the leap in quality. In recent times, since the time of Andino who played the National League La Rioja has lost that taste of being a little higher and that is the idea. “
“One of the great bastions of this project is our inferiors, I believe that with this our inferior divisions, not only of the Riachuelo Club, but of the entire Province, are going to grow a lot in quality and in the effort that the teachers and it will be a great motivation for the whole province. “
“In addition to prioritizing our young players who are one step away from jumping to other categories. Not having strong competition in the province they cannot achieve it. I believe that everything goes hand in hand, it is all very big and beautiful for everyone the clubs and players; the basis of the project is the hierarchization of the Riojan player and it is also the inclusion of our basketball at the national level “.
“Obviously the aid to face this tournament is important, we have had great support through this project that we have presented to the governor of La Rioja Ricardo Quintela, because he has always been a faithful assistant to the clubs and young people. Besides, we have been in contact with many people who want to give a hand in tourism, restaurants“.
“It is something very nice that if the second category is to be played, it will revolutionize and convulse the entire sport environment, not only basketball. It is something that the Rioja is waiting for, a competition of this magnitude. Riachuelo has the project to include and that all La Rioja is part of this “.
