He played in First, his fans saved him from disappearing and complained that the government wants to appropriate him

After being one step away from the disappearance, the historian Hurricane Club of Corrientes It was reborn at the hands of an industrious group of fans and former players who paid off most of their debts and sportingly brought back the splendor of other times. That conduct, which found a failed institution, denounced that the provincial government is trying to oust them because on several occasions it has refused to sell the facilities to the State of Corrientes.

The hurricane is brand new Corrientes sample and his managers are thrilled to play the federal tournament to try to get back in sport and place the Globe in AFA tournaments.

From the NEA Legal Firm, they denounced that the province’s legal entities are looking to replace the current board of directors to place an additional one similar to the governor Gustavo Valdes. “They want to take control of the club,” lawyer José María González said. And he argued that behind the move is a former fund member a judge appointed when the club went bankrupt, a former player and a radio producer, who is the husband of the head of the Legal Entities.

To stop the embezzlement attempt, González filed a request for normalization of the club last April before the bankruptcy judge, María Alejandra Antúnez. “We want a meeting with the judge and legal entities to start the process of calling the elections, but we haven’t been able to resolve it yet,” said González.

“The leading politicians of radicalism and ECO run some clubs. Governor Gustavo Valdés has created a new one, but the reality is that none of them have the history of the hurricane and that is why they try to appropriate it, “shot González.

The lawyer club.”.

The institutional decline that began in the mid-1980s sought to be exploited by political power, which on three occasions tried to maintain the club’s structures. which today have a value of more than 2,500 million pesos.

In 2018, Judge Antúnez, in charge of the bankruptcy process, summoned a group of fans and former players to take the helm and prove what seemed impossible: save the club from death.

Bruno Zacarías, Juan Morilla and Gustavo Morel are the visible faces of a financial and institutional restructuring process that has surprised locals and strangers alike. It is that the club has managed to raise a liability of 12 million pesos and now it only has to regularize the payments before the AFIP.

In 1996, the Corrientes club felt their hands touch the sky. He had gotten the long-awaited promotion to Primo. The dream lasted a season and left the institute in chaos, the product of a millionaire debt.

The Corrientes Globe therefore began sporting and institutional debacle which was prolonged and led to the intervention of Judge Antúnez. From the podium they got their hands on the law that allowed Racing de Avellaneda to be saved from the disappearance, and the hurricane was left in the hands of a trust that did little to improve the delicate situation.

Despite the passing of the years, the judge has not yet revoked the bankruptcy approved by her in 2005 and has not activated the procedure for calling the elections, the first step for the return to normalcy of her institutional life of the club founded in 1918.

The curator then appointed by the Justice decided to auction the club, but the employees prevented it from being liquidated to the highest bidder. In 2018, the judge overturned the trust law and handed the club over to the committee called “Azulgrana por todos”, the same one that today tries to validate the four years of effort with the vote of the members.

In 2018, during his first administration, Governor Gustavo Valdés made an offer to stay with the club, which owns over 20,000 square meters in the center of the capital. The money represented just 10 percent of the value of the property where there is a main court and two auxiliary courts, a swimming pool, a paddle tennis court and a five-a-side football pitch.

In the hands of Judge Antúnez are now the 104-year history of Club Huracán, a social and community space that seeks to re-emerge with the support of its people.

The adventure of Hurricane Corrientes in the First Division

Since football went pro in Argentina in 1931, there were only 109 teams that have had the opportunity to play in the First Division. In a football increasingly centralized around Buenos Aires, to the point that today only seven provinces have a representation in the highest category, only a handful have managed to break with the hegemony of the Argentine capital.

One of them was Huracán Corrientes, who played in the Argentine football elite for one season: in the years 1996/97.

The Globe was promoted to first after defeating Talleres de Córdoba in a final to remember, with a 1-4 win as a guest, a consecration to which, unexpectedly, they were called “Cordobazo”, as they drew 2-2. went to Corrientes. The chronicles of the time swear that in the Chateau Carreras stadium, later renamed Mario Alberto Kempes, there were only 100 Barça fans against 49,900 Pirata.

With the technical direction of a history of the as category Umberto ZucarelliHuracán has put together a team with names like Roberto Luis “el Lute” Oste, Uruguayans Luis Ernesto Sosa and Josemir Lujambio, goalkeeper Gastón Sessa, defenders Diego Capria, Cosme Zaccanti and Jorge “Coco” Reinoso, among others, has embarked on the adventure of playing in the First Division.

Huracán remained at the top of Argentine football for just one season and was relegated despite having played an acceptable season, victim of the damned average: he scored 19 points out of 19 games in Apertura 96, and 21 out of 19 in Clausura 97.

The humble Corrientes team has been able to compete on an equal footing with the greats of Argentine football. Against River, Boca, San Lorenzo and Racing they were all defeated, it is true, albeit with the particularity that Huracán scored goals in six of those eight games.

One of the most memorable matches was against River, albeit for reasons unrelated to the sport. The vibrant duel in Corrientes was 1-1 but had to be suspended when in a disconcerting play Juan Pablo Sorín scored an own goal and pointed out the Huracán goal: Roberto Bonano, Millo goalkeeper, was lying on the ground victim of a bullet.

The referee Javier Castrilli first he validated the goal but then canceled it and ended the match, which had to be rescheduled: two 32-minute halves were played, and it was a 1-2 win for Núñez’s men, with a goal of Sergio Berti, days after Ramón Díaz’s multi-champion team fell in Japan against Juventus for the Intercontinental Cup.

Against Independiente the story was different. Before the ‘Rojo’, the NEA cast gave themselves a historic gem: they won the two games played.

In the 1996 Apertura they met at the José Antonio Romero Feris stadium, and it was a 3-2 win for the Corrientes team, beating a team full of figures led by César Luis Menotti.

But the most unusual thing was that in Avellaneda the result would be repeated but in favor of the visit, 2-3. They were measured from the 18th of closing 97, in a match that saw Ricardo Gareca’s Independiente in third position, just 4 points from a River that was heading towards the two-time championship.

It was a happy day for Huracán Corrientes but at the same time very sad because, despite the victory, mathematics and averages decreed his return to Nacional B and a downward path that went hand in hand with the red numbers of his economy.