COVID-19: Argentina aborted football season and stopped relegation
Carlos Tevez (center), who returned to Boca Juniors, helped his team win the league last month.
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Buenos Aires: The remainder of the Argentine football season has been canceled amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 200,000 people worldwide.
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The first-class clubs, known as the Argentine Superliga, will be exempt from landing until 2022 due to the turmoil caused by the health crisis.
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“We are finishing the championships,” the president of the Argentine Football Association, Claudio Tapia, was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying.
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“The idea is to start playing again when the authorities allow this and with the utmost safety.”
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Tapia said that the announcement will be made officially on Tuesday, adding that the teams from the lower divisions will be upgraded.
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His comments came two days after Argentine President Alberto Fernandez extended the national closure until May 10.
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The AFA decision means that the Superliga Cup, which was due to end in May, was thwarted after only one round.
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Boca Juniors achieved their 34th Argentine title in the First Division last month after a late blow from Carlos Tevez that gave him a 1-0 victory over Gymnasia at the end of the last weekend of the Premier League season.
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