The Riestra pitch or the VIP of a bowling alley? This is how Guillermo Laza looks like a few hours after his historic debut in Primera

Deportivo Riestra AND Central Barracksold connoisseurs of promotion football, will face each other today for the first time in the top category for the third round of Group A of the Professional League Cup (LPF).

The match will mark the historic event that signifies this the Guillermo Laza stadium be the scene, for the first time, of a local first division football event. It will start at 5pm and will have Pablo Dóvalo as the main referee.

In the preview, the Pompeya club shared a video showing what its small and young stadium looks like, in which the energy drink that serves as the main sponsor of the institution is seen everywhere.

The replacement benches with brand new and shiny seats, the replacement benches transformed into Speed ​​​​bins and the small stall decorated as if it were that of the VIPs of a bowling alley, show a scenario that escapes the general rules of Argentine football.

The first thing that strikes you is the ability of Guillermo Laza: he is the one with the least ability among the elite of Argentine football, coincidentally dethroning that of his rival this afternoon, Claudio Tapia of Barracas Central. There is talk of a total capacity of 4,400 spectators.

Riestra, the youngest of the LPF, adds a point to the table and has just lost 2-0 against Argentinos Juniors, in La Paternal.

Barracas Central, whose coach is the Uruguayan Alejandro Orfila, lost 2-0 in their last appearance against River Plate, last Wednesday on the Lanús pitch.

The last two comparisons between the two teams took place in the 2018-2019 season, in the Primera B Metropolitana championship. On that occasion, in the Nueva Pompeya district there was a goalless draw, while in Olavarría and Luna the local Barracas won, 1-0, with a goal from Luciano Romero.

The story of Guillermo Laza, at the court of Riestra

Riestra was founded in 1931 and is based in the Nueva Pompeya neighborhood of Buenos Aires, at 2300 Del Bañado street. Nearby it had its first pasture, in Riestra and Agustín de Vedia, and then moved to Lacarra and Riestra, in Villa Soldati . , where its first stadium was built in 1950.

Riestra played there until 1981, when the Military Dictatorship expropriated the land by force and with a mechanism typical of those years of lead, forcing the club to move to locate its pitch in Bajo Flores.

Something similar had happened in San Lorenzo, its neighbor there in Bajo Flores, in the deep south of Buenos Aires, the most punished area of ​​the richest city in the country. Riestra built her property and his courtyard on the corner of Ana María Janner and Avenida Varela, across from the Barrio Ricciardelli (also known as Villa 1-11-14) and a few meters from Pedro Bidegain, Ciclón’s house.

The Guillermo Laza, named in honor of a former president, opened in 1993, the same year the New Gasometer was presented to the company. But Riestra has always been much more humble, or at least it has been for the last 30 years. With a current capacity of 3,000 spectators and only three small stands, the first match was a 1-0 victory for the local team against Atlas.