Behind the scenes of the clandestine meeting of the River bar to regain power in the Monumental

The people walking near the Pilar station of the San Martín train began to look curiously. Suddenly, 10 bars appeared here, 10 there, all wearing T-shirts. River or shirts with the number 14, which identifies The Drunkards of the Plank. After noon, the number had grown notably and the reason for the meeting was already in the air: rearm the brave bar to try to pressure a club that after the scandal of the 2018 Libertadores final, he owed more out of obligation than conviction to cut all ties with the violent (in fact, the cause of the alleged collusion with the bar in the delivery of tickets was already brought to trial by the prosecutor Norberto Brotto with bars and managers involved).

So strange was the situation that occurred last Saturday in Pilar that it was striking that there were groups that did not even know each other. Is that the bosses of Los Borrachos, in an attempt to regain power, played two pieces: bring people from promotion clubs and try to unite with the dissident faction under the slogan “divided, we all lose.” It is clear that although at the moment the pandemic does not allow the return of the public to the stadiums, there is an AFA project to try to open the fields for 30 percent of the fans and it is also known that Conmebol is pressing for that the next Copa América to be played in our country and Colombia has, unless the epidemiological situation becomes complicated, a 50% capacity in the stands. And since the Monumental is the main stadium chosen to represent our country, the bars see a business because the tickets are going to be scarce and they will cost gold. And with that objective they plan their return. Also bringing people from other bars, whether or not they are River fans, has an explanation: As the 300 most famous members have the right of admission after the final frustrated at the Monumental por la Libertadores 2018, they want to associate new ones who have an unscathed record of services. From River they assured Infobae that this will be impossible: they could be associated with the club as long as they have no antecedents (River has since 2019 an agreement with the National Registry of People to detect them) but not with the platform Tu lugar en el Monumental, which is the one that gives access to the stadium, because it is not active.

The rally featured the singing voice of Godoy Cave and Budge’s Ale, who settled their differences after Budge and La Salada’s group fell into prison in September 2019 for an ambush with weapons against the dissident faction and accused the leaders of not attending to their situation in prison properly. For the official side of the bar, the return of the people of Lomas de Zamora was key since they are the most violent of all and provide about 250 “legs”, as they say in the jargon to the soldiers who make up the bar. They, together with the group from the North zone led by the Ferreras brothers, with a seat in Beccar but a lot of descent on the Villa La Cava bars, are the most combative nucleus and that have generated the greatest inconveniences both in the club and on the field. The leaders of both factions were recently released from prison, resolved differences with Caverna and returned to shake hands this weekend in Pilar, with the aim of going all out.

There it was also debated to make a truce and meet with the dissident faction that in the last time he had won the tribune in the Argentina Cup matches and that at home he had begun to put his people in the Centenario tribune, facing the classic of the bar, the Sívori. For that there was a political intermediary who unusually offered to act as a link. This is a national deputy with an illustrious last name who assumed in 2019 for the Frente de Todos, who comes from a province of the Centro-Cuyo region and was already targeted on the day of Maradona’s wake at the Casa Rosada for allegedly letting bars pass Racing and River to the room where the remains of the Ten were saying goodbye. But the management was not lucky for now: the leaders of the official and dissident faction met in the sportswear store of Villa Crespo of a renowned Academy bar nicknamed Tati and if it had not been for the deputy’s custodians, everything would have ended. in a scandal, since there was an invitation from one of the dissident’s referents, Hernán el Clon Taboada, to settle the difference in the middle of the street and the blows that finally and while the air was being cut with a knife was not accepted.

Still, the alarms ring for the Monumental. In December the official bar went to the door of the stadium to make an appearance and make it clear that they want to return, before the game with Boca for the Maradona Cup there was an unusual caravan without distancing from the hotel where the team was located and now a massive meeting in Pilar, full of bars, to put together the master plan for the return to the paravalancha, which I hope does not come to fruition.

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