From the pitch to the cards: with the best football classics, the first National Trick League has begun

Trick. I want to do the makeup again. I want it to be worth four. seven words that contain thousands of stories behind them, which can be heard if you go through any barbecue or meeting between friends, those playful tables of the development companies and, from this weekend, also in the clubs that make up the first edition of the Liga Nacional de Truco (LNT). Yes, an official, federated tournament with representation of the most important clubs in the country, a the card game par excellence of the Argentines.

Sara more than 50 the clubs that will participate in the form face to face of the inaugural edition of this event, which will begin regionalized in various cities of the countryFederal Capital, Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario, Santa Fe, Tucumán, General Villegas and Chivilcoy) and which will culminate next December with the Final stageto which they will arrivethe first twelve in search of the champion.

One of the captivating points that causes greater importance is the participation of football teams such as Boca, River, Racing, Independiente, San Lorenzo, Huracán, Vélez, Ferro, Argentinos Juniors, Tigre, South dock, by the way, only in the AMBA region. In the overwhelming majority, they organized internal tournaments between male and female members to determine the four members from the list in good faith, of which two have to go play to date.

“This is a dream we came up with a long time ago with a group of friends, when we created the Argentine Association of Tricks, therefore a unique regulation because each province has a way of playing and from there we dream of equating the most important clubs in the country behind the cards with those of the neighborhood that accompanied us all in our childhood and adolescence. The pandemic has postponed our project but has not killed it and we are very happy to see this first step completed “confided José Alberto Viiconti, president of ASART, during the official launch of the LNT.

The link with football, the most popular sport in Argentina, comes from decanting. It is that in most concentrations or away matches of male or female teams it is usually the game par excellence when it comes to choosing to disconnect and separate from exclusively sporting obligations.

“It forces you to weave strategies, to think, to imagine and read gestures or signs (the way you have to communicate the cards you have to your partner), movements, words that can hide something else behind. timba and recover the playful space of the cards “insured Rodrigo Ortega SanchezASART secretary.