After breaking a tacit ban that lasted 40 years in 2017, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) will add new teams as direct affiliates. He will do it after seeing those who compete in the future on the field Amateur Promotional Tournamenta leveling tournament that has not yet been approved by the Executive Committee but that has the green light to begin playing at the end of December as part of the restructuring of the Ascent that from next year will merge the First C and D categories and that bets to add new participants.
The first of the clubs that announced their participation in said tournament and that has aspirations of reaffiliating is Atlético Pilaran institution that lost that status at the beginning of the 80s. It is a centenary club that after more than 40 years will once again compete under the orbit of AFA and that already has its youth team and a team in that structure. equipment senior.
Marcelo Pérez, president of the club and former candidate for councilor in 2021 for a neighborhood party, was in charge of announcing the good news for Atlético, which will have Osvaldo Escudero as head of the coaching staff, a remembered forward who was youth world champion in Japan 1979 and later he did Olympic laps with Diego Maradona in Boca and with Ángel Tulio Zof in Rosario Central.
What is the Promotional Tournament
The idea is that the Amateur Promotional Tournament is made up of 12 or 14 teams, which will present a squad of under 25 players, with no exceptions. It will be a leveling competition that will offer, although not due to sporting merit, four direct affiliations. Among the possible participants, in addition to Atlético Pilar, stand out Social Atlético Televisión (SAT), Provincial de Lobos, Camioneros de Luján, Everton de La Plata, Metalúrgicos, Belgrano de Zárate y Nautical Hacoaj. All of these clubs had already been submitting membership applications and, unlike Real Pilar and Mercedes, they were rejected.
Defense and Justice, Argentinian from Merlo, Deportivo Laferrere, San Miguel y Claypolehad been the last members under the intervention of Alfredo Cantilo. Julio Grondonapresident between 1979 and 2014, never gave a thumbs up to a new club. Since the inauguration of Claudio Tapia as president of the AFA in 2017, there were two. Real Pilar and, after the approval of the Ordinary Assembly on Thursday, Mercedes, who played as a guest and could not be promoted if they reached a position in the table that would require a change of place.
When the tournament that will merge categories C and D, the fourth category of those organized by AFA, begins next year, it will have a promotion to Primera B. Atlético Pilar and the rest of the amateur teams that compete aspire to reach the same tournament. in the Promotional.
Atlético Pilar will continue to play in the tournament organized by the Escobar Leaguedependent on Federal Council. This competition will be held with current players over 25 years of age who will not be able to participate in the Promotional.
For that tournament Nazareno Vallejos will be the interim to finish 2023 and in 2024 Walter Cabrera will take charge. For the AFA, the coach will be Escudero: the bet on Pichi is to win one of those four places.
In any case, Atlético already has its children’s team and included a senior team in the official tournament, which is also held at Viamonte 1366. The idea is that next year the women’s team will also join the professional tournament. To complete the return, he hopes to play in the next and new fourth category of AFA.
Differences between new members of the AFA
The two affiliated teams in the last six years have a difference. Real Pilar did not exist and was founded for the occasion, while Mercedes He has a birth certificate from the late 1800s.
But the connection between the three, adding to the potential affiliation of Atlético Pilar, is politics. Real Pilar – which when it could jumped from D to C and already has “history” in the Argentine Cup – was born by spontaneous generation without property, staff and the right number of members for the bureaucratic ballot.
Businessman Cesar Mansilla of fluid connections with Mauricio Macri –of whom he was an advisor- and Daniel Angelicithen president of Boca and political owner of Together for Changewas the man behind a sudden civil society, with the air of a sports limited company.
At that time, Tapia’s power was not based on the achievements of the National Team, but on the agreements with Angelici. Chiqui He signed the Mansilla team, at the request of the president of Boca.
The political color of Mercedes, the second of the affiliated teams, is different. The club founded in 1875 had in the neighbor Pedro’s Wado -and then Minister of the Interior of Alberto Fernandez– a person interested in the club competing directly in AFA, who the year he ended up affiliating the Buenos Aires club received more than 30 requests for the same purpose.
The confirmation that Atlético returns, at least immediately, to the AFA orbit gives Pilar two clubs in the competitions it organizes. Until recently it was represented by Fénix, but due to a locality issue it was already renting the Municipal stadium until Real Pilar joined. The coincidence also has Mansilla, who worked in a role similar to that of a manager in the black and white team.
AFA tournaments as the years go by
This is the sixth time that the AFA modifies the categories that contain its directly associated clubs. Initially, back in 1934 it had three: First, Second, Third for promotion. In 1943, the elite third baseman became professional, beyond rummaging until he achieved that status.
In 1950 the Amateur category was added and the following year the same thing that was to come happened: they unified the categories so that there were First, Second and Third Unified tournaments.
As the project did not work in 1952, the fourth category was added and until 1963 the structure operated with Primera A, B, C and D, until in 1985 it burst into the ranks of the first two, Nacional B, which today is called Primera Nacional.
2023-11-24 22:44:29
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