Two artists, two recitals and a Professional League football game. This Tuesday, 4 October, Vélez and Banfield played. Behind one of the arches, the one overlooking the grandstand behind Avenida General Paz, the stage where Daddy Yankee played last weekend and where ‘Duki’ will play this Thursday and Friday was set up.

There was a certain distrust towards the protagonists and that is why half an hour before the start of the match, the referee Darío Herrera together with his collaborators Juan Belatti and Gisella Trucco were analyzing the area together with the managers of the Professional League . The local club, to avoid possible injuries to the players, has put mats.

A few minutes before the start of the match, the official account of the Professional Football League (@ligaafa) posted a tweet with a link to a release very difficult against the management of Vélez, led by the president Sergio Rapisarda, and his actions for the contestation of the assembly.

“The Professional Soccer League expresses its disagreement and repudiation at the way Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield behaved so that its home match against Banfield, for the 23rd date of the Binance Tournament, is played in a context of the whole. irregular and improper. competition that aims to provide the best conditions for spectators “Start.

“It is important to underline that the club has never requested authorization from the LPF to carry out this show with such anomalies on the outskirts of the playing field, nor has it presented in advance the supporting documentation that reports this situation. carried out alone and secretly in front of the Control Bodies, on September 19, which approved the contestation of the match, informing the League of the situation a few hours before the match was held, when there was no real time to suspend or postpone it “, He added.

“It should be noted that the LPF will no longer authorize the holding of its league matches in scenarios with such serious anomalies. If such a situation occurs again, the host club will directly undergo the change of scene of this match”hill.

Shadow, Lucas and a change.

In that area, in the warm-up phase, there were also Banfield goalkeepers Facundo Cambeses Y Facundo Sanguinetti, together with goalkeeper coach Matías Stampone. Cambeses noted that the reflections of some lights were annoying, he complained and asked for some changes.

Referee Herrera explained that the match had to be played with lights to compensate for the shadow caused by the stage, but what was ultimately done was to direct them down rather than inward as they were, causing vision problems. when the ball came from the side stand. Therefore, the light was kept but it was dimmer and would not affect archers.

“Stage product, we will design for everything”, the referee warned the captains at the time of the coin toss. Banfield, alone with Cambeses as captain, has luck on his side and undoubtedly chooses to start the game from the other door, with Vélez’s fans behind him.