The coach of Boca Juniors, Miguel Ángel Russo, believes that it is "very good" that the Argentine League will be played from February to December starting in 2021 as announced by the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
The coach, who last March became the champion of the last Superliga in his country with Boca Juniors, also expressed his satisfaction that the Copa Libertadores has been extended until December because this gives the winning team a better chance of reaching the Club World Cup in a higher competitive level.
Russo referred to these and other topics during the video chat organized today by the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) through the social network Facebook, where he was also joined by his Colombian colleague Reinaldo Rueda, Chile's national team coach.
"It is very good that the AFA has decided to organize the schedule and play from February to December, because the local tournament and the Copa Libertadores will go hand in hand. This is something that I was asking and hoping for, and due to these pandemic situations (of the coronavirus) it is happening. It is good that we organize ourselves," said the 64-year-old coach.
Precisely due to COVID-19, the AFA also decided to end the 2019-2020 season, suspend relegation, change the Superliga schedule - which started in July and ended in March - and that the pending qualifications for international cups and promotions be defined, if possible, in new tournaments that will be played in the second half of the year.
The measure, which was announced on Monday by AFA president Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia, was made effective through a resolution published on the institution's website.
"An appropriate schedule will help us organize ourselves at all levels, in international club tournaments and also with the Argentine national team in the World Cup qualifiers," Russo added.
(With information from EFE)