a sad day for argie football

[gluckspirat.livejournal.com]

River Plate faces the worst crisis in the club's 110 years of history. After losing 2-0 against Belgrano de Córdoba, the team is on the edge of being relegated to second division. They must win by at least 2-0 at home on Sunday to be saved.

Tension showed last night when a bunch of fans broke into the field in the middle of the game to threaten some of the players, mainly Arano and Roman - the latter being risponsible for the penalty which gave Belgrano the lead. Almeyda, probably the only man in the team respected and supported by fans, approached to back up his teammates and received encouraging words by the "fans". The veteran player, who came back from his retirement because he missed his club, was later seen on the verge of tears, same as coach JJ López.

River has only obtained 12 out of the 30 points played at the Monumental during this tournament, and hasn't won any of the last 8 games.

A meeting will be held today to see if the next game at River's stadium will be played without fans. River tickets had sold out 2 hours after the sale started.

Comments

[itssabotage.livejournal.com]

if river gets relegated, we'll disappear
we owe like 220 million pesos
all the players will leave, all the youth team bbs will be sold, who's gonna wanna play in river in second division?
all the socios will leave after non football activities are shut down, we'll get less money from sponsors and from tv rights
with what money are we gonna buy new players, how are we ever gonna get back up? who's gonna manage the club, who's gonna be our coach?
we'll have to sell our stadium, we'll disappear

[ayres-4.livejournal.com]

what? Nooo! Football teams have come back from worse! Come on, Racing was bankrupt!! and they didn't disappear. San Lorenzo was relegated and didn't even have a stadium and we didn't disappear! Socios won't leave!! You can't really believe that the fans will abandon River, I don't think that will happen. Never. Come on now. I know it's a hard time, but don't think like that. You won't disappear.

[gluckspirat.livejournal.com]

with all the tickets that are sold out and with everything River means, the AFA won't let our club disappear. look at what happened with Racing. we still haven't fallen that deep yet, and if we do, I'm counting on someone to put on some pesos and get us out of this shit.

[sashaj22.livejournal.com]

OMG NO!!! Like ayres_4 said, teams have been through worse. Now is when you see your true strength. Hopefully River Plate, IF RELEGATED, will come back stronger than ever!