Racing de Avellaneda celebrate their win against Boca Juniors in Abu Dhabi this Friday.RULA ROUHANA (Portal)
Racing de Avellaneda defeated Boca Juniors for the Argentinian Supercup this Friday with a penalty in added time. The game was played 13,500 kilometers from Buenos Aires. Last June, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) signed a four-year deal with the United Arab Emirates to bring Argentine football to the capital, Abu Dhabi. This Friday’s game, a controversial 2-1 draw but which did not resolve all the tensions ignited in recent clashes between the two sides, was the Argentine league’s first adventure in a four-year deal to bring ‘various sporting events’. to golf country.
This Friday’s crossing marked the third time both teams have defined an official Argentina soccer championship in recent months. At the end of October last year, Boca Racing snatched the league at the last minute in the final game of the tournament. Both teams played with each other’s eternal rivals in definition. Boca had entered the last game of the league in the lead, just a point behind Racing. The tournament was defined in such a way that both games were played at the same time: Boca won the game against Independiente de Avellaneda up to the 81st minute when the tie came and finally took the trophy because River Plate beat Racing and one in the last minute Penalty stopped. For the first (and probably only) time in history, Boca Stadium exploded to celebrate the feat of its greatest enemy.
With Boca as winners of the First Division Championship and League Cup, the AFA decided to summon the seconds of both in a new one that eventually proclaimed the Champions Trophy. Racing defeated Tigre, who had lost the trophy to Boca, in a semi-final and crossed him again in a final. Almost two weeks after the league was defined, Avellaneda’s team won this time. The game was one of the most violent in recent Argentine footballing memory. A 2-1 that was decided in the 118th minute and ended with 11 players being sent off. The referee had to end the game early because Boca only had six players left on the field.
With the hot deal with Abu Dhabi in hand, the AFA once again called both sides together for a new final: the International Super Cup that defined the great champions of the 2022 season. Boca won the game in the 17th minute and Racing succeeded. .two minutes later it equalized. The game concluded with a great performance from Boquense goalkeeper Javier García throughout the second half. Racing, who didn’t stop attacking until the last minute, had their last chance in the 47th minute of the second half. The referee scored a hand ball from defender Agustín Sández in the Boca area and after almost five minutes of protest from the Boca players, Gonzalo Piovi scored for the academy.
Excitement from the impromptu final marked the week of Argentine football, which is still preparing for the league’s return after the team’s victory at the World Cup in Qatar. The players traveled together on a specially equipped aircraft, which took them together to Abu Dhabi on a 22-hour flight, stopping in Madrid. Local media speculated how they would raffle off seats on the plane to avoid clashes, but the fighting of 2022 appears to be behind them. The controversy then centered on the participants: Rafael Di Zeo and Mauro Martín, the clashing leaders of Boca Juniors’ Barra Brava, traveled to Abu Dhabi and were at the stadium despite being banned from entering Argentine stadiums due to various court cases. Most notorious is a confrontation between the two in 2013, in which two people were murdered in the midst of a war over control of the stands. The Emirates had no agreement with Argentina to bar them from entering the stadium.
The Ultras will return to Argentina under their own steam, now the focus is on the return of the other participants. With the seats on the plane already divided between Boca and Racing, it remains to be seen how the referees will return: they are supposed to return on the same flight, but Boca’s players are furious at the last-minute penalty awarded.
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