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After the postponement until further notice of the Copa Libertadores return final between River Plate and Boca Juniors, the great rivals of Argentine football, the presidents of the two clubs meet on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Conmebol to try to find a new date .
Violent incidents around the stadium, injured players, accusations of betrayal between leaders: since Saturday, the situation tends to hourly around this meeting which was to be a major sporting event of the football world, this South American competition being the equivalent of the Champions League.
The images of River fans stomping on the bus of Boca players, skirmishes around the stadium, arrests, the streets of this posh district of Buenos Aires plunged in a cloud of tear gas have been around the world.
While tens of thousands of spectators were mbaded Saturday in the stadium, including the president of Fifa Gianni Infantino, the organizers have finally had to postpone the meeting until further notice.
The bus entered the River compound with several broken windows. Players came out coughing, eyes irritated. The captain Pablo Pérez was taken to a hospital for a medical examination.
Treason
The pbadion and the rivalry are such between River Plate and Boca Juniors, the most titled clubs of Argentina, that the meetings are regularly enamelled of incidents.
Moreover, these scenes of urban violence are the worst effect in a few days of the G20 summit, to be held in the Argentine capital on November 30 and December 1, where are expected the heads of state and government of the top twenty rich and emerging countries.
After agreeing to postpone the match, Boca Juniors is now claiming a green carpet victory after Saturday's incident. The first leg ended in a 2-2 draw.
Opposite, River Plate President Rodolfo D'Onofrio denounces treason. "I can not believe he can not keep his promise. We signed a document, and we shook hands. Then I learn that Boca seizes the Conmebol and asks that they be champions by decree"said Monday D'Onofrio on Radio Miter.
Onofrio said that without his support for the postponement request made by the president of Boca Juniors, the match would have been played Saturday night, because the Conmebol insisted in this sense despite the incidents and the injury of Pablo Perez.
Call for compromise
Boca demands that River be sanctioned because the attack of stones and tear gas of the bus of Boca was perpetrated by ultra supporters of River, exploiting a flaw in the security device of the Argentine police.
The security officer of Buenos Aires Martin Ocampo has also resigned Monday.
In addition to Tuesday's meeting between presidents, Boca's request for sanctions against River "must be examined by the Conmebol Disciplinary Tribunal, an independent body of ten", said Monday to AFP a source within the Confederation.
The President of Conmebol Alejandro Dominguez called on the presidents of both clubs to reach a compromise. "It's much more than a sports title that is at stake. Or all players in South American football unite to end violence, or violence will end with South American football"he warned.
In 2015, in an eighth-final between the two rivals, Boca Juniors had received a penalty, match lost on the green carpet (3-0), because one of his supporters had sprayed an irritating gas players of River Plate, in the inflatable tunnel that leads locker rooms to the lawn.
Diego Maradona, fan of Boca, has also put his grain of salt. "I like to win on the field, but if we do not meet the standards, we need a penalty. And the penalty is to give the points to Boca"he pleads.
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