Professional League, League Cup, Champions Trophy, Argentine Cup and Argentine Super Cup. The multiplicity of competitions in Argentine football, beyond the search for greater competition and product sponsorship, overwhelms Argentine football fans. And much more to those who are not. Why do they play Boca and Racing, they ask? In Saint Louis? But what about Patronato, shouldn’t he play in Abu Dhabi with Boca? Which Cup was it for?
Cup competitions are played from 1900 to the 1940s with a certain regularity, then discontinuous, with no activity between 1970 and 1990, a Centenary Cup in 1993 and revitalized since 2012. All organized by the AFA since 1934 or its predecessors. What happens in 2022, if you look at history, is nothing new. The organizational form and the decisions that are made can be outrageous for many, each competition can be evaluated based on its importance, but they do not cease to be official and the conditions to win it for everyone in the same way.
From 2012 to 2018 there weren’t too many problems. The champion of the tournament played with the winner of the Copa Argentina and the Supercopa Argentina. Three races per season, as in most European championships, the ones that are so much watched and admired. However, in England, in addition to the Premier League and the FA Cup (the oldest tournament in the world), the Charity Field and the Community Shield Super Cup and the League Cup are played.
In Argentina, when the Argentine Soccer Super League (SAF) was created with the idea of becoming independent of the AFA, it added two competitions per season. The Super League Cup and the Champions Trophy. We went from three to five. And when the SAF was extinguished and the Professional Football League was born, which is the same but within the AFA, the format was kept. Ergo, five cups per season have been awarded since 2019. And the coronavirus pandemic has slipped some definitions.
Therefore, in addition to this Trophy of Champions, there are still to be defined Argentina Super Cup 2022who will play it Mouth (League Tournament Champion) e Patronage (champion of the Argentina Cup), not in Abu Dhabi, because the announced presence of El Patrón does not go well with the petrodollars of Qatar.
From 2020 the Argentine Super Cup and the Champions Trophy are scheduled. The first was to be played by the 2019/20 Super League champion (Boca) and the 2020 Argentine Cup champion, also Boca. So, River, as runner-up in the 2019/20 Super League, it’s up to them to play that final.
The Champions 2020 Trophy may also have a Superclásico, but here it is a bit more “pulled by the hair”. Boca were the 2019/20 Super League champions and the pandemic interrupted the 2020 League Cup, ergo, the Champions Trophy could not be played. Then the Diego Maradona 2020 Cup was played, also won by Boca. Subsequently, the 2021 League Cup (Colón champion) and the 2021 League (River) began and the Champions Trophy went to the River. However, as the 2021 League champion, Millo remained unrivaled for the 2021 Argentine Super Cup because the 2021 Argentine Cup was not played. What a good opportunity to put together another super classic from scratch! It seems, therefore, that River and Boca will also play for the Argentine Super Cup 2021. We will see if some of the pending ones, without Board of Trustees, will be played in the United Arab Emirates or, in other words, the cup will change its rules for a certain convenience. .
In the future it will be easier to understand what happened in the 1920s and 1930s than in the 20th century), especially what goes from 2018 to 2022 and beyond. Racing, one of the finalists in San Luis, monopolized racing in the second decade of the 20th century. A seven-time champion (1913-1919), he always earned the right to play in the Ibarguren Cup (final with Rosario) and Ricardo Aldao Cup (with Uruguay). In addition, he participated in the Honor Cup and the Competition Cup. He has won five Ibarguren and 4 Honors locally; and two Ricardo Aldao and a Cousenier Honor Cup with the Uruguayans.
Boca, the other finalist of La Pedrera de Villa Mercedes, between January and May 1920 won the 4 races scheduled in the hectic season of 1919, and a strong group of clubs resigned from the Argentine Association and founded the Amateur Association. Everything that had been played up to that point has been canceled: a clean slate. In the official one, Boca and Huracán remained the two main clubs.
Xeneize remained in four of the five competitions that year. On 4 January they were crowned league champions for the first time by beating the sportsman. Almagro 4-0 and at 18 he won the Competition Cup by beating Central 1-0. On February 8 he beat Canalla 2-0, but this time for the Ibarguren Cup (the trophy that established the Argentine champion title with Rosario), on May 25 he beat Nacional Montevideo 2-0 for the Copa de Honor Cousenier on the field of the Sportsman Barracas. Aldao only lost to Nacional. La Yapa, on December 12, returns champion of the League, this time for the First Division tournament in 1920. It has to be decided, she has won five trophies in just one year, a record that has not yet been surpassed.
If you look carefully at the photo in which the Boca team poses with the four trophies, you can see the pride of those players for having achieved these four achievements. They were part of the foundation of Boca’s greatness. What it is today is largely due to those trophies and, of course, to the subsequent tour of Europe in 1925. The same goes for Racing, the first champion of Creole lineage, in a successful stage from 1913 to 1925.
This Sunday, November 6 in San Luis is defined the fourth race of the year. Boca has already won twothe League Cup and the Professional League Tournament and wants the third, to match the years 1926, 2000, 2003 and 2005. He is the winner of several national cups and aims for his 17th trophy.
The Academy will try to get rid of the incredible title lost just minutes before the end of the Professional League. He has 14 domestic cups and if he is crowned champion he will overtake River (15) in second place.
This is the dizzying Argentine football with these cups reaching a thousand. don’t try to figure it out.
Source: Clarin
