Tigre-Chacarita scandal: why there were no Funebrero fans on the Arsenal pitch

What would have happened if the Funebrero crowd had also witnessed the duel between Tigre and Chacarita for the Argentina Cup? Fans of the San Martín club were unable to go to the Arsenal stadiumwhere the match was suspended in the second half when Fernando Brandán received a bottle on the head from a person thrown from the Matador stalls. Why wasn’t there an audience for both sides?

The beginning of the year for Chacarita it’s a minefield. After his captain’s terrible car accident Luciano Perdomoa murder in the midst of his debut in the current tournament of First National -with subsequent wake at the stadium- led to a sanction of four dates behind closed doors at home.

The punishment was the first he imposed Guillermo Cimadevilathe new head of the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sport (Attention), and which entered into force today San Miguelat the beginning of the third appointment of the First National.

This commitment, however, had been put on the calendar due to Argentine Cup that, judging by the Aprevide ruling, the sentence should not have been reached, since the undertaker He didn’t play in his stadium, but in that one Arsenaland according to the tournament organizer not a local, but a visitor.

Because of this, a group of fans gathered in the group “Chacaritan Loyalty” He had tried to anticipate the Aprevide measure and sent the organization a letter that did not achieve its objective.

“There is no specific resolution that prohibits members and fans from attending a neutral stadium, since the only sanction that weighs on our beloved institution, imposed by your honorable body, are 4 matches without spectators when our first team takes possession of the premises of SAN MARTIN, but nothing expresses said sanction regarding a neutral stadium”, specifies the letter which bore the signature of the members Leandro Capriotti AND Mariano Rabinovich.

In the same note, the members asked for “clarifications” on the resolution of the punishment, as they anticipated that they would be in Sarandí this Wednesday for the Argentina Cup match. Anyway, a group of fans was near the stadium and lit smoke bombs with the colors of his bat.

Aprevide communicated the refusal of the Chacarita fans to participate and explained that -despite the context- The Argentine Cup match will be counted as one of the four who will have to play behind closed doors.

In this way the Funebrero will be able to reopen the doors of its stadium, only for members, on the 8th against San Martín de Tucumánoriginally the last one to be played behind closed doors.

Members with an updated membership card can join the Tucumán team, but also those who are not but have a previously obtained season ticket.

Before this happens, Chacarita will have to present to Aprevide a ticketing and access control system that allows the identification of all the public attending the stadium.