Buenos Aires, November 15 (NA) – The historic leader of Independiente's barra brava, Pablo 'Bebote' Álvarez, stated that tonight against Rosario Central he will re-enter the Libertadores de América - Ricardo Enrique Bochini stadium, regain control of the fanbase, while the official faction promised to stop him with 'bullets'. Tonight starting at 21:30, in a match to be covered live by the Argentine News Agency, Independiente will host Rosario Central within the framework of the last date of Group B of the Clausura Tournament. With no chances of advancing to the next phase, the 'Red' aims to defeat the leader and undefeated Rosario team and dream of qualifying for next year's Copa Sudamericana. However, when the eyes should be completely focused on what happens on the field, attention will also be focused on the extra-sporting aspects, precisely in the popular stands of the Libertadores de América - Ricardo Enrique Bochini stadium, where the historic leader of the barra brava between 1996 and 2017, Pablo 'Bebote' Álvarez, will again take control of the fanbase as he assured on his social networks. 'Everything is ready, confirmed, 'The Red Devils' are back.' Due to the suspicion that it might be a move by Álvarez, the agency ordered the club to provide who are the associates authorized to enter against Rosario Central, but incredibly, Independiente did not send this data. Therefore, Aprevide ordered to increase the security operation from 450 to 570 officers and it was written in the minutes that any act of violence that occurs in the Santoro Baja stand will be the responsibility of the organizer and there will be exemplary sanctions. In a viral video, Álvarez went with two of his lieutenants and attacked Avendaño in a fight that lasted a few minutes. 'Bebote' doubled down, puffing out his chest on social media, showing flags that he stole from the current head of the barra brava, Mario Nadalich, and issued an ultimatum: a fight, and the winner takes the stand. In this maximum alert, the official barra brava met in a club in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, showing the stolen flags to disprove Álvarez and more than 300 people closed the night shouting 'Bebote, dear, we are going to shoot you.' In this context, the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sport (Aprevide) learned that there were more than 150 credential updates at the headquarters on Avenida Mitre 470, in Avellaneda. 'We are home' the barra brava leader tweeted, asserting that this Saturday will be his return to the stadium after eight years in prison for threatening coach Ariel Holan, coincidentally today at Rosario Central, and with the right of admission, in addition to having become a dangerous target for the club's, national and international authorities. Álvarez has been planning this return for a long time, taking advantage of the positive comments he received on social networks from some fans who showed their dissatisfaction with the management of the current barra brava, which he rejected after serving his three-year sentence in the Melchor Romero Penitentiary. Although the current barra brava - led by people from the Huracán and Barracas Central stands - was never accepted due to the decline into which they transformed the Santoro Baja stand, the breaking point was the brutality they generated against the University of Chile in August of this year. That indelible stain on Independiente's rich history caused the leadership to let go of the barra brava and hand it over to justice, which applied right of admission everywhere, leaving a leaderless fan stand occupied only by club members and 'Red' fans. However, despite not being able to enter the Libertadores de América - Ricardo Enrique Bochini stadium, the barras did not remain idle and began to make a ritual out of 'ranchear' (gathering) at the descent of the Puente Agüero, a few meters from the stadium, maintaining their food stalls, club merchandise sales, and guarded by police officers. Álvarez saw the gap left by the Chilean incident and took the opportunity to accelerate his return to the Independiente stand, he gathered his soldiers who had given signals of 'Bebote's' return in recent encounters with recognized people from the barra brava faction who reappeared in the Santoro Baja and the Erico Baja stand. In addition to having regained control of the bar he created and sold on the corner of the stadium (which received a surprise municipal inspection in recent hours), the former barra brava leader went further and this week sought out Mauro Romero Avendaño, an important man in the current fanbase who has the right of admission due to what happened against the University of Chile in the Copa Sudamericana. Congratulations to all the guys who held out for more than 3 years outside the stadium.
