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Ivan Pisarenko | France Media Agency

The long Copa Libertadores final between Argentine rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate, hit by serious violence, will stop Tuesday at Conmebol offices to try to define a new date of the decisive duel suspended.

But nothing is guaranteed. The prelude to the meeting, scheduled at 10:00 in Asunción, between the presidents of Boca, Daniel Angelici; from River, Rodolfo D'Onofrio; and that of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, is in the grip of conjectures, rumors, pressure and cross-accusations.

The world of football was paying attention to the unprecedented super final, but the scandal revealed widespread violence in Argentine football.

The attack with stones and sticks against the bus that moved the campus of Boca to Monumental, which forced the superclbadical to be suspended, took place with the presence in the stadium of the President of Fifa , Gianni Infantino, a bad sign for a country that is proposed as the main venue for organizing the Mondial-2030 with Uruguay and Paraguay. 19659011] Points or Expulsion

Boca is firm in the badertion that points are awarded when the final rematch for the aggression with sticks and stones at the l & # 39; The bus drove his team to the Monumental Stadium on Saturday and forced the session to be suspended twice over the weekend after a 2-2 draw in the first leg.

On the other hand, D & # 39; Onofrio stated that he felt betrayed by considering that his counterpart Angelici had violated the "Gentlemen's Pact" signed for the match to be played on Sunday after the suspension that the leader of River supported the day before.

Before filing his case in Conmebol Disciplinary Court, Angelici had been inundated with social media criticism for agreeing to play Sunday, just one day after his players had suffered a major shock, including: the left eye of the captain, Pablo Pérez.

"There is a presentation of Boca which will be studied by the Disciplinary Tribunal Conmebol, an independent body composed of ten representatives," said Monday at Agence France a source for the Confederation. Press Yes, Monday evening, Conmebol itself formalized the measure and declared that the disciplinary process had been opened of office, without mediation of the presentation of Boca.

The source explained that the proceedings before this court and the meeting of presidents were different. The judgments of the court are mandatory, he added.

"I presume that the Court will take into account the logic of the time," he said about the possibility of this body being created after the final dispute.

The controversial article 18

Boca is covered by Article 18 of the regulation which provides, among the most important sanctions, the "deduction of points", the "determination of the result of a match "," the obligation to play ". an in camera match "and" the disqualification of current competitions and / or the exclusion of future competitions. "

In determining the result or disqualification, he wishes to become a powerful Boca, who in 2015 was excluded from the tournament in the second round of the Libertadores, precisely during a match against River, whose players were attacked with pepper spray at the end of the half-time duel that took place in the Bombonera River finally won the third continental title of the Libertadores that year.

In the middle of this wave from accusations, the millionaires consider this article as unenforceable, as Saturday's incidents took place outside the Monumental stadium, where the responsibility is great.High security officials and the 2015 inside the Bombonera

In Europe, it was possible

There are only two facts about the endless violence in Argentine football, it does not stop even if, in 2013, it has been determined the ban made fans to go to the stadiums, as was the case in the final Boca River in Libertadores.

Although UEFA has changed its reality, UEFA has put an end to recurring incidents of European football after the tragedy of the Heysel Stadium for the 1985 European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, who made 39 crushes.

UEFA then launched an offensive to eradicate hooligans (violent supporters), sanctioning English clubs without international competition for five years and ten in the case of Liverpool, which was then reduced to six years.

Meanwhile, a European city, the Italian city of Genoa, was proposed Tuesday to host the final, because of its links with the two clubs, founded more than 100 years ago by Italian immigrants, including Genoa .