The president of Deportivo Madryn, Ricardo Sastre, had told the Argentine News Agency a month ago at the presentation of the Regional Federal Amateur Tournament that they are not only considered an institution but also have representation in the AFA assembly schemes. After losing the final for the first promotion to Gimnasia de Mendoza at the Ciudad de Vicente López stadium in penalties a little over a month ago, the aurinegro team reached the quarter-finals of the playoff for the second promotion and faced Gimnasia de Jujuy, one of the main protagonists of Zone B of the Primera Nacional that finished fifth and reached this stage by drawing 0-0 with San Miguel and advancing by sporting advantage. On Sunday, October 19, at the 23 de Agosto stadium in Jujuy, the 'Lobo' from that province defeated Deportivo Madryn 1-0 with a goal from Alejandro Quintana at the end of the first half, but the referee Lucas Comesaña claimed to have been pressured and intimidated in the dressing room during the break, did not come out to referee the second half and suspended the match. Finally, the Argentine Football Association ruled against Gimnasia de Jujuy and awarded the match to Deportivo Madryn 3-0, setting a dangerous and unfair precedent for sporting competition in which a match can be won off the field. Thus, with the 1-0 in the return leg, Deportivo Madryn advanced to the semi-finals where they faced Deportivo Morón, a team that had finished fourth in Zone B and had eliminated two main protagonists of the season without conceding a goal: San Martín de Tucumán and Atlanta. With a 1-0 in the first leg - which could have been more - the team from the West of the Buenos Aires Conurbano went to Puerto Madryn with the illusion of being one step away from returning to Primera, but the absurd sanction to their coach Otta for criticisms he never made to Tapia and Toviggino, began to extinguish that flame in all of Deportivo Morón. Otta had to watch the decisive match from a stand in the Abel Sastre stadium with the club's leadership delegation and his assistant Félix Benito was in charge of leading the team, which, from the initial whistle by Pablo Echavarría - in a very bad match - began to suffer refereeing injustices. A clearly non-existent foul by Juan Manuel Cabrera in the 14th minute of play resulted in the goal of Santiago Postel for the 1-0 of Deportivo Madryn, brutal tackles that were not punished not even with a yellow card, and as the cherry on top, the brawl at the end of the match that ended with the players of the southern team hitting their colleagues, coaching staff and leaders of Deportivo Morón in the back, and to make matters worse, they returned to Buenos Aires repressed by the police with batons and pepper spray. Thus, the two promoted teams from the Primera Nacional to the Professional League will be from the Interior of Argentina, from Mendoza and Córdoba or Madryn, strengthening the premise of federalism that is preached from the Argentine Football Association. The federalism of Argentine football is something valid and even indispensable, but not at any cost, with controversial refereeing decisions and with teams favored with utmost servility, as were the porteño Deportivo Riestra and Barracas Central in previous editions of the Primera Nacional. Buenos Aires, November 17 (NA) – The president of Deportivo Madryn, Ricardo Sastre, confessed to the Argentine News Agency that 'obviously' it is easier for them with Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia as president of the Argentine Football Association and with Pablo Toviggino as treasurer. In a series absolutely tainted by controversies, the southern team won 1-0 to Deportivo Morón this Sunday at the Abel Sastre stadium and, by sporting advantage, qualified for the final of the Primera Nacional for the second promotion to the Professional League. The 'Gallo' was the great loser of this key and which will remain in history as such in this playoff for the second promotion. Penalties not awarded in the first leg at the Nuevo Francisco Urbano stadium, an absurd suspension to coach Walter Otta for statements he never made, a clearly non-existent foul that ended in the 1-0 of Deportivo Madryn, brutal tackles that were not punished even with a yellow card, and as the cherry on top, the brawl at the end of the match that ended with the players of the southern team hitting their colleagues, coaching staff and leaders of Deportivo Morón in the back, and to make matters worse, they returned to Buenos Aires repressed by the police with batons and pepper spray. 'Obviously it is easier for us with Tapia and Toviggino, we have a very important participation. Next year, the Professional League will have 30 teams, of which 11 will be from the Interior of the country, 11 from the province of Buenos Aires and 8 from the Federal Capital. In addition, since the Transition Tournament of the Primera Nacional in 2014, fourteen teams from the Interior of the country have been promoted to the elite of Argentine football. The stadium of Deportivo Madryn, the Abel Sastre, has a capacity of 8 thousand people, less than seven stadiums of the Primera B Metropolitana and six of the Primera C. However, despite this, the venue was inspected by AFA and approved to be a venue for the national football teams. In this context, it is added that it has been 40 years since a team from the south of Argentina plays in the First Division, the last one being Alianza de Cutral Có in 1986. Deportivo Madryn has the opportunity to cut that streak, but the question is: is the club, the stadium and the city prepared to receive teams of the size of Boca or River?
