“There is no more beautiful dream than to be champion with Boca !!! They remain in history, the first time Three-time champion !!!”. Thus, with those words in handwriting on a lined sheet of a notebook, Jorge Ribolzi started a letter dedicated to the players of Boca, after they achieved qualification for the knockout stages of the Copa Libertadores and were ahead of the historic possibility of winning the third consecutive local title in this League Cup, something that the club did not achieve in its entire history.
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“Three-time champion”, wrote the Russian, just he who he was very close several times, both as a footballer of the Juan Carlos Lorenzo multi-champion team and when he accompanied Alfio Basile as part of the coaching staff, first when he won the Metropolitano and Nacional in 1976 and then with the Apertura 2005 and the Clausura 2006, possibly the time Boca was closer he was able to achieve it. Until Coco went to the National Team and left a Ferrari in the hands of Ricardo La Volpe …
Ribolzi’s letter for Boca players.
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However, the question that arises From this dream – which Juan Román Riquelme also mentioned after eliminating River in the quarterfinals – it is if Boca could indeed be considered a three-time champion for the simple fact of winning the last three Argentine football competitions in any case. And the controversy has already started …
The first thing to consider and not confuse is the category of the contest. For more than in the last year, after the 2019/20 Super League, only the Diego Maradona Cup has been played and now the League Cup, they are different competitions. They are not the same. As the AFA makes a difference in the regulation.
Page 22 of the regulation where it marks CUP and TOURNAMENT.
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“Both are official competitions, but of different tenor. They can be added as local achievements if you want, but we must be clear that they are different competitions”said the site specialized in history and statistics Revisionismo Fútbol in a statement.
In fact, in the AFA regulation that a cup will be played in the first semester and a league tournament in the second …
“It is very clear that it is a national cup. The interpretation is logical: Racing would not achieve its 19th league championship, but its 14th national cup, Independiente will not cut the streak without league championships, but it would cut the streak without national titles … And Colón will get his first title but it will be a national cup, as it happened to Tigre“Roberto Guidotti and Bernardo Fuentes, members of Revisionismo, explained to Olé.
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¿Tri or Tri?
Despite these clarifications, Boca’s dream of achieving what eluded him on a few occasions in his history would not be frustrated if he won the current League Cup, which on Monday will have its semifinal against Racing to seek a place in the final against the winner of the other semi between Independiente and Colón.
Could you consider yourself a three-time champion? “The AFA regulation is clear, a cup is being played, but the term three-time champion strictly speaking means three times champion. Later if the vox populi transformed it into a neologism of something else … “, explained the official historian of Boca Sergio Lodise to Ole.
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Revisionismo Fútbol completed the clarification in the recent statement that they sent before wrong references that appeared in the media: “A National Cup is being defined and not a League Championship and that, in case of winning this competition, Xeneize in any case will be three-time champion of general AFA tournaments and not three-time champion of the League, since he won the Superliga 19-20 (League Championship), the Diego Maradona Cup 2020 (National Cup) and – in case of winning the current competition – he will obtain the LPF Cup 2021 (another National Cup) “.
Three-time champion, after all, for winning the last three AFA competitions. Will they please the Russian Ribolzi, Riquelme and all the Boca fans? The possibility of El Tri now is there …
